PRESERVE REPUBLIKA SRPSKA, WITHOUT IT, SERBS HAVE NO FUTURE

BANJA LUKA, NOVEMBER 16 /SRNA/ – The President of the NPS, Darko Banjac, stated that 30 years after the signing of the Dayton Peace Accords, Republika Srpska firmly endures as one of the historical Serb entities and states. He emphasized that Serbs must protect it as a guarantee of their continued existence in the region.

“I will repeat: thanks to its creation, Serbs have survived here, were not expelled, and did not suffer the fate of the Second World War. Therefore, in the future, we must do everything possible to preserve Republika Srpska,” Banjac told SRNA. He noted that continued pressures on Republika Srpska, which have occurred since Dayton, could lead local Serbs to pursue the entity’s full state independence. “If internal and external pressures continue, along with efforts to undermine Republika Srpska for the purpose of unitarizing BiH, this people simply will have no choice,” Banjac explained. He expressed hope that reason would prevail in BiH, and that within the framework of Dayton, Republika Srpska—as well as the rights and interests of the Serb people—will be respected. “Dayton brought peace to this region, but under the current actions of the incomplete BiH Constitutional Court, it is no longer the peace agreement signed 30 years ago. In any case, Republika Srpska must continue to fight peacefully for its rights,” Banjac concluded. The General Framework Agreement for Peace in BiH, better known as the Dayton Peace Accords, was negotiated on November 21, 1995, at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio, USA, and formally signed on December 14 of the same year in Paris. In the years following its signing, under pressure from the Office of the High Representative (OHR) and the BiH Constitutional Court, Republika Srpska had a large number of competencies transferred to the BiH level.