RS leader urges preservation of peace and stability

RS leader urges preservation of peace and stability

"Only legal elections give the legitimacy to the RS, its institutions and people," Dodik added.

"Anything other than that will lead us into a state of emergency that will not allow us to ever again stabilize, until they impose a political framework that would be against us," he told reporters in Andrićgrad near Višegrad, eastern Bosnia-Herzegovina.

Dodik was there along with film director Emir Kusturica and leader of Serbia's DSS party Vojislav Koštunica.

The RS president also said that the Serb entity was "functioning flawlessly, institutions-wise," and that this would remain so in the future, adding that authorities in Bosnia's other entity - the Muslim-Croat Federation (FBiH) - "do not function, which is confirmed by the fact power has been turned over to the street and some sort of plenums there."

Noting that the global economic crisis also caused regional economies to stagnate, Dodik said that "the creators of the global crisis" were now "trying to use political activities, various NGOs and agencies, to spur people in these areas in order to influence political goings-on."

"Despite persistently proving that the violence and demonstrations exclusively concern the Federation, they are globalizing this issue and mentioning it as an issue of the whole of Bosnia-Herzegovina," said Dodik, and added this was "a dictatorship of foreigners trying to create an impossible country, while more and more people are becoming aware of it."

"We had a chance to see various troublemakers from past decades emerge in various roles in this area, such as Jelko Kacin, who early on in his career commanded the Slovenian Territorial Defense that was killing soldiers there," the RS president said.

"Kacin has now allegedly become some sort of European, and does not miss any opportunity to send bad arrows and messages to the Serb people," noted Dodik.

Dodik also said he agreed with Koštunica that the Serb people needed to act together, and that the preservation of Serbia and the RS was also necessary "as the basic values of the Serb people," which, he said, was "fictitiously divided with a border, but lives the same cultural and value system."