SANCTIONS LIFTED FOR OFFICIALS AND LEGAL ENTITIES IN SRPSKA

WASHINGTON, OCTOBER 29 /SRNA/ – The U.S. Department of the Treasury has lifted sanctions against President Milorad Dodik, Serb member of the Presidency of BiH Željka Cvijanović, Speaker of the National Assembly of Republika Srpska Nenad Stevandić, as well as other individuals and companies that were sanctioned during the previous U.S. administration.

Sanctions were also lifted for former Prime Minister of Republika Srpska Radovan Višković, Minister of Scientific and Technological Development and Higher Education Siniša Karan, Minister of Health and Social Welfare Alen Šeranić, Minister of Energy and Mining of Republika Srpska Petar Đokić, Speaker of the Council of Peoples Srebrenka Golić, and Minister of Foreign Trade and Economic Relations in the Council of Ministers Staša Košarac.

The decision also removes sanctions on Presidential Adviser Branislav Okuka, former owner of "Infiniti Grupa" Đorđe Đurić, General Director of "Kaldera" Milenko Čičić, Igor Dodik, Gorica Dodik, former Minister of Justice Miloš Bukejlović, Director of the Republic Administration for Geodetic and Property Affairs Dragan Stanković, Head of the Republika Srpska Representative Office in Russia Duško Perović, and Director of the company “Prointer” Vladimir Perišić.

Sanctions were also lifted for Aleksandar Dobrić, Mirko Dobrić, Vlatko Vukotić, Marko Gujančić, Nemanja Reljin, Dalibor Panić, Džerard Selman, Rajko Kuzmanović, Goran Filipović, Pavle Ćorović, Radmila Bojanić, and Siniša Dodik.

Washington has also lifted sanctions imposed on ATV, UNA TV Banja Luka, and several other companies targeted by the former U.S. administration.