SAVREMENI OBLICI INSTITUCIONALNOG PODRIVANJA SUVERENITETA BOSNE I HERCEGOVINE: DEKLARACIJA “SVESRPSKOG SABORA”
MODERN FORMS OF INSTITUTIONAL UNDERMINING OF THE SOVEREIGNTY OF BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA: DECLARATION OF THE “PAN-SERPIAN ASSEMBLY”

Author(s): Muamer Džananović
Subject(s): Constitutional Law, Governance, Geopolitics, Administrative Law
Published by: Institut za istraživanje zločina protiv čovječnosti i međunarodnog prava Univerziteta u Sarajevu
Keywords: sovereignty; territorial integrity; Dayton Peace Agreement; Constitution of Bosnia and Herzegovina; special parallel relations; All-Serb Assembly; Republic of Serbia; Republika Srpska; SANU Memorandum; revisionism; institutional coordination;
Summary/Abstract: This article examines the Declaration on the Protection of the National and Political Rights and the Common Future of the Serbian People, adopted at the All-Serb Assembly in Belgrade in 2024, through the prism of the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Bosnia and Herzegovina as fundamental principles of international and constitutional law. The article emphasizes that the entities of Bosnia and Herzegovina do not possess international legal personality and that their competences derive exclusively from the Constitution of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Within this framework, particular attention is devoted to the constitutional limits of permissible “special parallel relations” under Article III/2(d) of the Constitution, as well as to the legal and political consequences of arrangements that exceed this constitutional threshold. Initsanalyticalsection,thearticlesituatestheDeclarationwithinthecontinuity of a greater-state ideological matrix, highlighting the transformation of objectives from overt territorial claims toward “soft” forms of power, including cultural hegemony and institutional penetration. The Declaration is subsequently examined point by point, with the identification of key thematic clusters: the institutionalization of the Assembly and the National Council; identity homogenization; the role of the Serbian Orthodox Church; Kosovo; revisionism concerning the wars of the 1990s and the genocide in Srebrenica; the delegitimization of Bosnia and Herzegovina through specific interpretations of the Dayton framework; security positioning; symbolic politics; education and collective memory; memorialization; demographic policy; and economic and infrastructural integration. The concluding section of the article reveals that the Declaration has not remained at the level of political symbolism, but has been accompanied by concrete legislative, by-law, and administrative measures (the establishment of memorial institutions, normative interventions concerning symbols, educational regulations and harmonization, as well as agreements and “roadmaps” in strategic sectors), thereby establishing durable mechanisms of coordination between theRepublic of Serbia and theBosnia and Herzegovina entity ofRepublika Srpska (RS) outside the institutionalframework ofBosnia and Herzegovina. The cumulative effect of these processes is assessed as a serious constitutional and political challenge to state functionality, the rule of law, European integration, and regional stability.

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