KARAN: SCHMIDT AND PIC RUINING INTERNATIONAL LAW IN BiH

BANJA LUKA, APRIL 21 /SRNA/ - President of Republika Srpska Siniša Karan stated that international law has been ruined for many years, which can be seen in BiH through acts of Christian Schmidt and Peace Implementation Council /PIC/, whose aim is to bring the constitutional system of Republika Srpska to the collapse by ruining the Dayton Peace Agreement.

"The Dayton Peace Agreement is an act of international law, and it is being destroyed through the PIC, where there is an informal power of some who think they can rule outside of international law, and through Schmidt and certain domestic institutions that are destroying the Dayton," said Karan at the press conference in Banja Luka following the meeting of delegations of Republika Srpska and Russia.

He assessed that BiH's foreign policy, which is under the authority of the Presidency of BiH, was also ruined.

"Bosniak representatives pursue Bosniak politics and ruin Republika Srpska wherever they are in multilateral diplomacy – wherever they represent BiH in international bodies," Karan noted.

He emphasized that those are negative elements of ruining the international law that reflect on Republika Srpska, but there are also positive elements in more and more active diplomatic relations of representatives of Republika Srpska, but also thanks to the guarantors of the Dayton who protect the international agreement.

Karan noted that as soon as someone doubts the existence of international law, it means that something is going on.

"The best examples of definitive ruining of international law was the breaking of former Yugoslavia, but also Serbia when it comes to Kosovo and Metohija, i.e. when one of the key things guaranteed by international law was abolished - sovereignty, territorial integrity, international subjectivity, political independence," said Karan.
He added that international law has its own principle, which is coordination, not subordination.

"That is not imposing, all countries are the same according to international law – but you see they are not. That is the gap today as well," Karan stated.