High Representative in Bosnia-Herzegovina (BiH) Valentin Inzko assessed that Republika Srpska (RS) clearly violates the Dayton Accords, particularly Annexes 4 and 10, adding that the recent moves of RS leadership represent the most serious violation of the Dayton Accords ever since its signing 15 years ago.

Inzko made these assessments in his report on BiH that he had prepared for the debate at the UN Security Council (SC) scheduled for Monday, May 9, which was published by the Banja Luka daily Glas Srpske on Friday.

Along with the regular report on the situation in BiH, Inzko for the first time delivered an entire annex entitled 'Republika Srpska.'

In the report, which was handed out to the UN SC members, Inzko accuses the RS National Assembly of directly questioning the role of high representative and his authorizations listed in the Annex 10 and the BiH Constitution, as well as all decisions and laws that the high representative adopted in accordance with his mandate.

The conclusions also deny the authorizations of the BiH Constitutional Court, an institution which, according to Annex 4, is the pillar of BiH's constitutional order. Moreover, these decisions categorically deny authorizations and jurisdictions of state judicial institutions in the territory of Republika Srpska. The role of BiH Parliamentary Assembly in adopting laws referring to those institutions is being brought into question, Inzko stated in the report.

Inzko assessed that parliamentary conclusions endeavor to violate the overall constitutional order of BiH.

The conclusions of the RS National Assembly, as well as the decision to hold a referendum (on BiH Court and Prosecutor's Office), bring into question all the laws adopted by the high representative, claiming that they violate the Dayton Accords and that RS has the right to question their legality, among other means, through a referendum. Many of these laws were established by institutions with state authorizations, Inzko's report reads.