Bosnia and Herzegovina Presidency member Milorad Dodik said in an interview with the BBC that he wants to form the Republika Srpska army, as he is allowed to do so under the Dayton Accords.

"This is our Constitutional right, it has not been repealed before.

We agreed only on another way of organizing the military forces in BiH.

"Now we will withdraw that consent", said Dodik.

He again denied the Srebrenica genocide, saying a "major crime" had been committed.

"There is no doubt that a crime was committed in Srebrenica.

But this is the job of individuals, not the military as a whole.

Either way, people have different fears.

Serbs fear that the whole area will be dominated by Muslims and are afraid of immigrants coming.

"These are also the fear things that exist here", said Dodik.

Dodik last month stated that he would force the Armed Forces to withdraw from the territory of Republika Srpska, occupying the barracks, but now considers that blocking the barracks is unnecessary.

"There is no BiH army in the territory of the Republic of Serbia, but the Armed Forces in which the majority are Serbs.

There is no need to block the barracks, when 90 per cent of the members of the BiH Armed Forces in Republika Srpska are Serbs.

"I also want to emphasize that I believe in the capacity of EUFOR and that their mandate has been extended by a UN decision," Dodik said.

Moreover, Dodik says they do not love Bosnia as it currently is.

"No, we do not want BiH as it is now.

It turned out that BiH, as it is currently organized, is decadent with false reforms and other problems and as such can not survive.

"What I want on behalf of the people who elected me is to defend the Dayton Accords and implement only what is written there," Dodik said.

Otherwise, the main representative of the international community in Bosnia has warned that the country is in immediate danger of disintegrating and that there is a "very real" prospect of a return to conflict.

Christian Schmidt said earlier this week that if Serb separatists carry out their threat to re-create their army, splitting the national armed forces in two, more international peacekeepers should be sent again, to stop slipping into a new war. .

Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik is threatening to withdraw from state-level institutions, including the national army built with international assistance over the past quarter century, and rebuild a Serb force.

On October 14, Dodik said he would force the Bosnian army to withdraw from Republika Srpska by surrounding its barracks, and that if the West tried to intervene militarily, he said he had "friends" who had promised to support the Serbian cause, a reference supposed for Serbia and Russia.

Bosnian Serb police conducted "counter-terrorism" exercises last month on Mount Jahorina, from where Serb forces bombed Sarajevo during a 1992-95 siege.

Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Gabriel Escobar told Congress last week that the United States was working with the EU to "ensure that there are consequences for any illegal or destabilizing action" in Bosnia.

But it is unclear whether the administration of President Joe Biden would support a return to NATO peacekeeping.