The Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republika Srpska entity (MUP RS) has prevented members of the State Investigation and Protection Agency (SIPA) from entering the building of the Administrative Center of the Government of Republika Srpska in East Sarajevo, where a meeting between Milorad Dodik and representatives of the City of East Sarajevo is taking place.
The news of the blocking of entry to the building where the President of Republika Srpska (RS), Milorad Dodik, was staying, was confirmed to Radio Free Europe by SIPA itself.
This agency stated that its members were acting under an order from the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina and that no force was used.
Dodik, the Speaker of the Parliament of Republika Srpska, Nenad Stevandic, and the Prime Minister of this entity, Radovan Visovic, are suspected of attacking the constitutional order. A central arrest warrant has been issued for them in Bosnia and Herzegovina since mid-March, after they failed to respond to a summons from the Prosecutor's Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina for questioning.
Earlier, the Bosnian Court had asked INTERPOL to review its decision to reject the request to issue a red notice against representatives of the Republika Srpska leadership.
INTERPOL has not issued an international red notice for Dodik, Stevandic, after the Bosnian Court addressed the request on March 27.
The Bosnian prosecution had previously requested the issuance of an international arrest warrant, stating that Dodik and Stevandic, "taking advantage of their high positions in the RS, have avoided legal border control procedures, crossed the state border and left the territory of Bosnia and Herzegovina."
Both officials have left and returned to Bosnia and Herzegovina several times since the central warrant for their arrest was issued.
Following a first-instance ruling in late February, in which Milorad Dodik was sentenced to one year in prison and banned from engaging in politics for a period of six years, authorities in Republika Srpska adopted a series of laws prohibiting the functioning of Bosnian state judicial and investigative bodies on the territory of this entity./ REL
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