The Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina has issued an international arrest warrant for Milorad Dodik, the President of Republika Srpska, along with two other officials. This follows Dodik’s defiance of a previous state-level arrest order issued last week.
The warrant also targets Radovan Višković, the Prime Minister of Republika Srpska, and Nenad Stevandić, the Speaker of the National Assembly. The order mandates that any police officer encountering them must proceed with an immediate arrest.
All three are accused of unconstitutional behavior. According to Bosnian media reports, Stevandić has already left the country for Serbia.
Dodik has not yet commented on the new warrant but posted on X that Republika Srpska is taking steps to establish its own border police. This force would control the boundary between Republika Srpska and the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the two main entities in the country.
In late February, Dodik was convicted by the state court for rejecting the decisions of the international peace envoy to Bosnia, Christian Schmidt, which was deemed a criminal act. While the ruling is not final and can be appealed, Dodik has dismissed the authority of the state prosecutor’s office and vowed not to comply with any arrest attempt.
Following his conviction, Dodik introduced new laws aimed at blocking the operations of state-level security and judicial institutions within Republika Srpska, covering nearly half of Bosnia’s territory. The Constitutional Court has temporarily suspended these measures.
As tensions escalate, the European peacekeeping force in Bosnia (EUFOR) has announced an increase in troop deployment to respond to the situation.
