The appointment of an ambassador of Bosnia and Herzegovina BiH at the proposal of the President of the Republika Srpska RS is a topic that interests the public, especially because of the constitutional provisions that entrusted foreign policy to the State Presidency. In the case of BiH, nothing is that simple.
The state constitution, which is superior to the entity constitution, points out that foreign policy is the responsibility of BiH, in such a way that the Presidency of BiH is responsible for foreign policy, appointing ambassadors and other international representatives of BiH.
A maximum of two-thirds of ambassadors can be selected from the Federation of BiH FBiH, which also reflects the structure of the Presidency, where two of three members are selected from the FBiH.
If it is still not possible to reach a consensus, two members of the Presidency adopt the decision unless one of the members declares it destructive to the entity's vital interest. The declaration is then delivered to authorized entity bodies.
The RS is responsible for the National Assembly, while the FBiH has the responsibility for the Bosniak and Croat people's caucuses in the House of Peoples of the FBiH.
From the smaller BiH entity, they claim that the President of the RS nominates ambassadors and other international representatives from that entity, as stated by Amendment L of the Constitution of the RS.
In its decision from 2000, based on the request of the Chairman of the BiH Presidency, Alija Izetbegovic, from 1998, the Constitutional Court of BiH pointed out that issues that are not explicitly listed in the Constitution are not necessarily the exclusive competence of the institutions but should be decided by the Parliamentary Assembly of BiH PABiH How the proposal of the appointment of new ambassadors is now being problematized based on the request of the Chairman of the BiH Presidency, Alija I
After the list of proposals for new ambassadors of the BiH Presidency member Denis Becirovic was published, they reacted from the RS, since they did not like some of the names on the list, which culminated in Cvijanovic s statement that Dodik was actively involved in the process.
Klix.ba reports that Becirovic is not Dodik's topic because he is the entity president.