US lifts sanctions on Bosnian Serb leader Dodik
The US administration has lifted sanctions on Bosnia’s nationalist Serb leader Milorad Dodik, his family members and close associates
WASHINGTON, United States (MNTV) – The US administration has lifted sanctions on Bosnia’s nationalist Serb leader Milorad Dodik, his family members and close associates.
The move reverses measures imposed for undermining the Dayton Peace Agreement that ended Bosnia’s war two decades ago.
The US Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) announced the decision without explanation.
Dodik was first sanctioned in 2017 by the Obama administration for defying Bosnia’s Constitutional Court and obstructing the Dayton peace accord.
At the time, the Treasury Department accused him of threatening the “sovereignty and territorial integrity of Bosnia and Herzegovina.”
The Biden administration imposed additional sanctions on Dodik in 2022.
Earlier this year, a Bosnian court sentenced Dodik to one year in prison and barred him from politics for six years for defying the authority of the top international official overseeing the implementation of the 1995 Dayton Peace Agreement.
Known for his frequent secessionist rhetoric, Dodik has repeatedly argued that Bosnia should adopt a new political framework or separate entirely.
The 1995 Dayton Peace Agreement established Bosnia and Herzegovina as a state composed of two entities — the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina (FBiH) and Republika Srpska (RS).
Disagreements over its interpretation and implementation remain a key source of contention.
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