A court in Bosnia has said it is seeking an international arrest warrant for Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik, who is accused of attacking the constitutional order and has gone abroad in defiance.
The court said on Thursday that a decision was now in the hands of Interpol.
Dodik, the president of Bosnia’s Republika Srpska region, has triggered the gravest crisis since a 1990s war after being sentenced to a year in jail and banned from politics for six years over ignoring rulings by an international peace envoy.
Dodik, a pro-Russian long-time advocate of secession from Bosnia, had initiated legislation barring the state judiciary and police from operating in Republika Srpska, but Bosnia's constitutional court temporarily suspended that.
Defying an internal arrest warrant, he crossed into neighboring Serbia earlier this week, then traveled to Israel for an antisemitism conference in Jerusalem on Thursday.
Dodik says the accusations against him are meaningless as they are politically motivated.
Dodik, the president of Bosnia’s Republika Srpska region, has triggered the gravest crisis since a 1990s war after being sentenced to a year in jail and banned from politics for six years over ignoring rulings by an international peace envoy.
Dodik, a pro-Russian long-time advocate of secession from Bosnia, had initiated legislation barring the state judiciary and police from operating in Republika Srpska, but Bosnia's constitutional court temporarily suspended that.
Defying an internal arrest warrant, he crossed into neighboring Serbia earlier this week, then traveled to Israel for an antisemitism conference in Jerusalem on Thursday.
Dodik says the accusations against him are meaningless as they are politically motivated.
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