BLAGOJEVICH: SUPPORTING SNSD IS ABOUT SUPPORTING INTEGRITY OF DAYTON

CHICAGO, NOVEMBER 21 /SRNA/ - Supporting the SNSD party in the early presidential elections in Republika Srpska is as much about preserving Serbs' right to self government as it is about preserving the integrity of Dayton, the former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich told SRNA.

He noted that today, on the 30th anniversary of reaching the Dayton Peace Agreement, it is important for Serbs in Republika Srpska to support democracy and reject colonialism.

Blagojevich hopes that in the elections on Sunday, November 23, the voters will reject the efforts by the Bosniak bureaucracy in Sarajevo and illegal Christian Schmidt to steal from the Serb people their right to elect whoever they choose to be their president.

"The issue in Saturday's election is clear: Whether the Serbian people vote in favor of autonomy and self determination as promised under Dayton, or whether they fall back to being governed by people from other places who aren't Serbs. It really comes down to supporting democracy and rejecting colonialism," Blagojevich concluded.

The General Framework Agreement for Peace in BiH, better known as the Dayton Peace Agreement, was agreed on November 21, 1995 at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base near Dayton, Ohio, USA, and officially signed on December 14, 1995 in Paris.

In the years following its signing, under pressure from the OHR and the Constitutional Court of BiH, a large number of competencies were taken away from Republika Srpska and transferred to the level of BiH.