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P 061556Z NOV 07
FM AMEMBASSY SARAJEVO
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC PRIORITY 7329
INFO RUEHZL/EUROPEAN POLITICAL COLLECTIVE
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RUFOAOA/USNIC SARAJEVO

UNCLAS SARAJEVO 002392 
 
SIPDIS 
 
SENSITIVE 
SIPDIS 
 
DEPARTMENT FOR EUR (DICARLO), EUR/SCE (HOH/FOOKS), NSC FOR 
BRAUN 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: PREL PGOV BK
SUBJECT: BOSNIA - RSNA SPECIAL SESSION CONCLUSIONS 
 
REF: SARAJEVO 2313 
 
¶1.  (SBU) On the evening of November 5 the Republika Srpska 
National Assembly (RSNA) resumed the special session 
previously adjourned on October 29.  The session, which had 
been postponed several times throughout the day while talks 
between OHR lawyers and RS officials continued, met for 
approximately fifteen minutes to pass a five-part nonbinding 
resolution or "conclusion."   The only remarks at the sesison 
came from RSNA Speaker Igor Radojicic who took the floor to 
note that, despite the passage of the current set of 
conslusions, the special session would resume after legal 
talks between OHR and the RS government concluded.  Radojicic 
instructed SNSD deputes to continue work on resolutions 
addessing the Bonn Powers and the transfers of RS 
competencies to the state.  Radojicic read the proposed five 
conclusions which the deputies adopted by majority vote 
without debate.  Only the six Bosniak deputies voted against 
the conclusions. 
 
¶2. (U) The five point RSNA conclusions are summarized below: 
 
-- The RSNA expresses understanding of decision by PM Spiric 
to tender his resignation, as an act of rejection of the High 
Representative's decisions.  The RSNA assesses that this was 
the Chairman's only option given attempts to significantly 
change the procedures of the Council of Ministers. 
-- Assessing that there has been no practical progress to 
date in addressing RS objections to the High Representative's 
measures, the RSNA resolves that the 5th special session 
adjourns until further notice. 
-- Until the present crisis is resolved, the conditions for 
ordinary work of BiH Parliamentary Assembly are not met. 
The RSNA therefore calls for both chambers of state 
Parliament to refrain from new sessions while negotiations 
are ongoing. 
-- The RSNA calls on state institutions to establish internal 
relations in good faith and refrain from attempts to outvote 
any of the constituent peoples or either of the two equal 
entities, even if imposed procedures allow them such 
possibility under the current circumstances.  The RSNA cannot 
accept even the theoretical possibility that representatives 
of one constituent people or one entity can be outvoted, and 
is ready to use all legal and democratic means in case such 
situation occurs. 
-- The RSNA requests the RS delegates to the state House of 
Peoples, who were appointed by the RSNA, not to accept new 
decisions under the existing circumstance.  If the High 
Representative's measures are imposed RS delegates do not 
have the mandate to give legitimacy to one-sided and 
detrimental decisions in the House of Peoples. 
Comment 
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¶3. (SBU) The RSNA conclusions stopped short of adopting the 
problematic resolutions that had been discussed at previous 
sessions including a call for a withdrawal from the state 
government and a rejection of the legitimacy of the Bonn 
Powers.  SNSD leadership has evidently decided to await the 
outcome of legal talks between OHR and RS experts before 
broaching these provotative steps.  Nonetheless, the Radojiic 
comments and the second conclusion make clear that the RSNA 
intends to pursue these steps if the OHR-RS talks do not 
satisfy its concerns.  END COMMENT 
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