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Desire for a referendum

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The Prime Minister of Republika Srpska Milorad Dodik began mentioning the idea for a referendum since Montenegro seceded from the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro in the May 21 independence referendum, in response to threats and calls for Republika Srpska to be abolished from Bosnian Muslim politicians in Sarajevo. Image File history File links Unbalanced_scales. ... Milorad Dodik, Prime Minister of the Republika Srpska Milorad Dodik (Serbian Cyrillic: Милорад Додик) is the Prime Minister of Republika Srpska, an entity within Bosnia and Herzegovina, from 18 January 1998 to 12 January 2001, and from 28 February 2006. ... Anthem: Oj, svijetla majska zoro Oh, the bright dawn of May Capital (and largest city) Podgorica Serbian (Ijekavian dialect)1 Government Republic  - President Filip Vujanović  - Prime Minister Željko Å turanović Independence from Serbia and Montenegro   - Declared June 3, 2006   - Recognised June 8, 2006  Area  - Total 13. ... Serbia and Montenegro  â€“ Serbia    â€“ Kosovo and Metohia        (UN administration)    â€“ Vojvodina  â€“ Montenegro Official language Serbian language written in Cyrillic alphabet Capital Belgrade President Svetozar Marović Area  â€“ Total  â€“ % water Ranked 105th  102,350 km²  0. ... The Montenegrin independence referendum was a referendum on the independence of the Republic of Montenegro from Serbia and Montenegro that was held on May 21, 2006. ... Bosniaks (natively: Bošnjaci) are South Slavs descended from those who converted to Islam during the Ottoman period (15th-19th century). ... Map of Bosnia and Herzegovina (Sarajevo) Coordinates: Country Bosnia and Herzegovina Entity Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina Canton Sarajevo Canton Mayor Semiha Borovac Area    - City 142 km²  (54. ...

Dodik believes that a referendum is “inevitable” since Bosnia and Herzegovina has no viable future if, as he alleges, Bosnian Muslim politicians continue to attempt to dominate the state, call for the abolition of Republika Srpska, and relate to Serbs as second-class citizens. This issue has hit on many sensitive issues for both sides. The Bosnian Muslims feel that Republika Srpska is an entity based on genocide and strive to abolish it.

The former Bosnia-Herzegovina United Nations ambassador told a Sarajevo television station that US officials promised before the signing of the Dayton Agreement that a referendum for separating from Bosnia-Herzegovina will be available to the people of the RS in the future, daily Večernje Novosti writes. Sacirbey said that this is why RS Prime Minister Milorad Dodik has been forcing the issue lately.

He claimed that the US, during the peace talks at the end of the war, asked Yugoslav President Slobodan Milošević what they needed to do in order to get him to negotiate.

“Milošević asked for the Serbs in Bosnia to receive an enclave, and wanted Srebrenica, Žepa and Goražde. Milošević and then-US president Bill Clinton, US official Richard Holbrooke, and United Nations official for the former Yugoslavia Yasushi Akashi reached an agreement to give the Serbs these enclaves. The US Administration urged us to give up those zones, but none of us, not even Bosnia-Herzegovina President Alija Izetbegović or Prime Minister Haris Silajdžić, wanted to accept.” Sacirbey said. Sacirbey said that the agreement of the US on Milošević’s conditions was if not a green light, a yellow light for military actions in the region of Srebrenica.

“The second part of the agreement of the US Administration and Milošević was to allow a referendum for the secession of the Republic of Srpska and having it belong to Serbia, which Dodik insists on. It seems that Dodik and others are using this as blackmail, mostly for the State Department, where a majority of the people knows that the agreement existed, and they do not want that getting out to the public now.” Sacirbey said.

He did not want to confirm whether there was an official draft of this agreement, however.

“This was an agreement with some Americans, for the Republic of Serbia to gain the right of self-determination. I know that then-Secretary of State Madeleine Albright tried to stop that part of the agreement because she knew of the danger, not only for Srebrenica, but for the image of the USA. I do not know who currently in the State Department knows about this agreement, but I do know that it exists.” Sacirbey said.

Sulejman Tihić, the Muslim member of Bosnia’s three-man rotating state presidency, added to the tension saying that those who want to secede from Bosnia can pack up and leave, "but can’t take away an inch of Bosnian territory". Borislav Paravac, the Serb member of the state presidency, slammed back at Tihić, saying his statement was an "irresponsible and scandalous act". "Bosnia isn’t his private property," said Paravac, adding that Republika Srpska covers 49 percent of Bosnia’s territory and that Serbs are one of three constituent peoples, with equal rights. Dodik retorted that Tihić’s statement represented a drastic example of “hate and chauvinism” which will only further inflame ethnic passions in Bosnia. "In Tihić’s statement one can easily recognize an Islamic concept which sees Bosnia as its exclusive right," said Dodik. "Serbs are a constituent people in Bosnia, claim the same right to the country, and to live in it," said Dodik. The high representative of the international community in Bosnia Christian Schwarz-Schilling appealed to the leaders of all three nationalities to stop “inflammatory rhetoric”, but the quarrels continue relentlessly as the election date draws closer. Sulejman Tihić Sulejman Tihić (b. ... Borislav (Hrast) Paravac better known as chetnik no 1 who likes to act an idiot(in fact he doesnt act) (Борислав Паравац in Serbian Cyrillic) is a Bosnian Serb polititian and member of the Presidency of... Christian Schwarz-Schilling, born in 1930 in Insbruck, Austria, is a German politician who served from 1982 to 1992 as Germanys federal post and communications minister. ...

Presidents

• Radovan Karadžić (7 April 1992 to 19 July 1996) (SDS) (indicted by the International Criminal Tribunal for Former Yugoslavia)
• Biljana Plavšić (19 July 1996 to 4 November 1998) (SDS/SNS RS) (expelled from SDS in July 1997 and formed SNS RS) (convicted of crimes against humanity by the ICTY)
• Nikola Poplašen (4 November 1998 to 26 January 2000) (SRS RS) (removed by High Representative on 5 March 1999; removal enforced on 2 September 1999)
• Mirko Šarović (26 January 2000 to 28 November 2002 (SDS) (not recognized as president by High Representative until 16 December 2000)
• Dragan Čavić (28 November 2002 to present) (SDS)

Radovan Karadžić during a visit to Moscow in 1994. ... Biljana Plavšić (Биљана Плавшић) (born July 7, 1930 in Tuzla, Yugoslavia), was a Serb politician based in Bosnia and Herzegovina. ... Mirko Šarović (Мирко Шаровић in Serbian Cyrillic) is a Bosnian Serb politician, former Member of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina. ... Dragan Čavić (born March 10, 1958 in Zenica) is the current President of Republika Srpska (since November 28, 2002). ...

National Assembly

The current National Assembly of Republika Srpska (Народна Скупштина Републике Српске / Narodna Skupština Republike Srpske) is the sixth since the founding of the Republika Srpska. The National Assembly (Serbian Cyrillic: Народна Скупштина Републике Српске, Serbian Latin: Narodna SkupÅ¡tina Republike Srpske) is the legislative body of the Serb Republic. ...

• First Assembly (24 October 1991 to 14 September 1996)
• Second Assembly (19 October 1996 to 27 December 1997) (election of 4 September 1996)
• Third Assembly (27 December 1997 to 19 October 1998) (election of 14 September 1997)
• Fourth Assembly (19 October 1998 to 16 December 2000) (election of 13 September 1998)
• Fifth Assembly (16 December 2000 to 28 November 2002) (election of 11 September 2000)
• Sixth Assembly (from 28 November 2002) (election of 5 October 2002)
• Seventh Assembly (from ) (election of 1 October 2006)

The political composition of the Sixth Convocation of the National Assembly of Republika Srpska:

• Serb Democratic Party 26
• Alliance of Independent Social Democrats 18
• Party of Democratic Progress 9
• Party of Democratic Action 6
• Serb Radical Party of the Republika Srpska 3
• Party for Bosnia and Herzegovina 4
• Democratic People's Union 3
• Social Democratic Party of Bosnia and Herzegovina 3
• Other parties (or independent representatives) 11

The political composition of the Seventh Convocation of the National Assembly of Republika Srpska (and the change in number of seats from the Sixth Convocation): The Serb Democratic Party (Serbian: Srpska Demokratska Stranka, SDS) is a political party for Serbs in Bosnia and Herzegovina. ... The Alliance of Independent Social Democrats (Serbian Cyrillic: Савез независних социјалдемократа, Serbian Latin: Savez nezavisnih socijaldemokrata) is a parliamentary party in the Bosnia and Herzegovina. ... The Party of Democratic Progress (Partija demokratskog progresa RS ) is a Serbian political party in Bosnia and Herzegovina. ... The Party of Democratic Action (Stranka Demokratske Akcije) is a Bosniak nationalist political party in Bosnia and Herzegovina. ... This article is about contemporary political party. ... The Party for Bosnia and Herzegovina (Bosnian: Stranka za Bosnu i Hercegovinu) is a political party in Bosnia and Herzegovina. ... The Social Democratic Party of Bosnia and Herzegovina - Socialdemocrats (Socijaldemokratska Partija BiH - Socijaldemokrati / Социјалдемократска Партија БиХ - Социјалдемократи), is a political party in Bosnia and Herzegovina. ...

• Alliance of Independent Social Democrats 41 (+23)
• Serb Democratic Party 17 (-11)
• Party of Democratic Progress 8 (-1)
• Democratic People's Union 4 (+1)
• Party for Bosnia and Herzegovina 4 (no change)
• Socialist Party 3
• Party of Democratic Action 3 (-3)
• Serb Radical Party of the Republika Srpska 2 (-1)
• Social Democratic Party of Bosnia and Herzegovina 1 (-2)

The Alliance of Independent Social Democrats (Serbian Cyrillic: Савез независних социјалдемократа, Serbian Latin: Savez nezavisnih socijaldemokrata) is a parliamentary party in the Bosnia and Herzegovina. ... The Serb Democratic Party (Serbian: Srpska Demokratska Stranka, SDS) is a political party for Serbs in Bosnia and Herzegovina. ... The Party of Democratic Progress (Partija demokratskog progresa RS ) is a Serbian political party in Bosnia and Herzegovina. ... The Party for Bosnia and Herzegovina (Bosnian: Stranka za Bosnu i Hercegovinu) is a political party in Bosnia and Herzegovina. ... The Party of Democratic Action (Stranka Demokratske Akcije) is a Bosniak nationalist political party in Bosnia and Herzegovina. ... This article is about contemporary political party. ... The Social Democratic Party of Bosnia and Herzegovina - Socialdemocrats (Socijaldemokratska Partija BiH - Socijaldemokrati / Социјалдемократска Партија БиХ - Социјалдемократи), is a political party in Bosnia and Herzegovina. ...

Executive

The government of Republika Srpska is composed of the prime minister and the heads of the sixteen ministries. The National Assembly also selects two deputy prime ministers from among the ministers from different constituent peoples (Serbs, Croats, and Bosniaks) on the recommendation of the prime minister.

The law requires that eight ministers be elected from the Serb population, five from the Bosniak population, and three from the Croat population. The prime minister may also appoint one minister from among the "others" population (out of the largest constituent ethnic group).

Under the Law on Ministries adopted in October 2002, the "tasks of the administration" of Republika Srpska are carried out by ministries, republican administrative units, and republican administrative organizations.

Prime Ministers

• Branko Đerić (22 April 1992) (SDS)
• Vladimir Lukić (20 January 1993) (SDS)
• Dušan Kozić (18 August 1994) (SDS)
• Rajko Kasagić (17 December 1995) (SDS)
• Gojko Kličković I (18 May 1996) (SDS)
• Gojko Kličković II (27 November 1996) (SDS)
• Milorad Dodik I (18 January 1998) (SNSD)
• Mladen Ivanić (12 January 2001) (PDP)
• Dragan Mikerević (17 January 2003) (PDP)
• Pero Bukejlović (17 February 2005) (SDS)
• Milorad Dodik II (28 February 2006) (SNSD)
• Milorad Dodik III (30 November 2006) (SNSD)

Milorad Dodik, Prime Minister of the Republika Srpska Milorad Dodik (Serbian Cyrillic: Милорад Додик) is the Prime Minister of Republika Srpska, an entity within Bosnia and Herzegovina, from 18 January 1998 to 12 January 2001, and from 28 February 2006. ... Mladen Ivanić (Serbian Cyrillic Младен Иванић) is a Bosnian Serb politician the current foreign minister of Bosnia and Herzegovina. ... Dragan Mikerević (born 1955) is a politician from Bosnia. ... Pero Bukejlović (Перо Букејловић) (born August 9, 1946 in Bušletic) is the current Prime Minister of Republika Srpska (since January 10, 2005) after the resignation of Dragan Mikerević (December 17, 2004) Categories: Articles to be expanded | Politician stubs | 1946 births | Politics of Republika Srpska ... Milorad Dodik, Prime Minister of the Republika Srpska Milorad Dodik (Serbian Cyrillic: Милорад Додик) is the Prime Minister of Republika Srpska, an entity within Bosnia and Herzegovina, from 18 January 1998 to 12 January 2001, and from 28 February 2006. ... Milorad Dodik, Prime Minister of the Republika Srpska Milorad Dodik (Serbian Cyrillic: Милорад Додик) is the Prime Minister of Republika Srpska, an entity within Bosnia and Herzegovina, from 18 January 1998 to 12 January 2001, and from 28 February 2006. ...

Ministries

• Ministry for Economy, Energy and Development
• Ministry of Finance
• Ministry of Education and Culture
• Ministry of Justice
• Ministry of Internal Affairs
• Ministry of Administration and Local Self-Governance
• Ministry of Health and Social Protection
• Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Water Resources
• Ministry of Transport and Communications
• Ministry of Trade and Tourism
• Ministry of Urban Planning, Civil Engineering and Ecology
• Ministry of Labor and Soldiers and Invalid Protection
• Ministry of Economic Relations and Coordination
• Ministry of Refugees and Displaced Persons
• Ministry of Science and Technology
• Ministry without Portfolio

Administrative Services

Administrative services in RS are administrative bodies within the ministries, and are established for the purpose of performing certain activities from within the sphere of activity of the administration, which, due to their nature, entirety and way of performing, require independence and special organization (administration, inspectorates, and other forms). Administrative services are under the direct supervision of the ministry to which they belong.

The following are the administrative units and the ministries to which they belong:

• Administrative Service for Geodetic and Legal-Property Issues (responsible to the Government of Republika Srpska)
• Administrative Service for the RS Customs (Ministry of Finance)
• Revenue Service (Ministry of Finance)
• Foreign Currency Inspectorate (Ministry of Finance)
• Civil Defense Service(Ministry of Administration and Local Self-Governance)

Administrative Organizations of RS

Main article: Administrative Organizations of the Republika Srpska

Administrative organizations in the RS are established for the purpose of performing professional duties and duties of the republic's administration (institutions, directorates, secretariats, agencies, commissariats, funds, centers and other forms). Administrative organizations may have the attributes of a legal entity.