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2019 Day of Republika Srpska Honour Unit parade in Banja Luka. Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina declared the holiday unconstitutional on 26 November 2015 [3] stating that the main issue for it being coinciding with a religious holiday. [citation needed] The ruling was ignored by the Republika Srpska government.
On 10 September 2020, the government of Srpska reached a decision on making the Day of Serb Unity, Freedom and the National Flag official, which made it a new holiday in Srpska. [3] A day later, on 11 September 2020, the Government of Serbia also made the day official, making it official in both Serbia and Srpska. [citation needed]
Serbian PM Aleksandar Vučić also attended the event. [7] Croat Republika Srpska MPs also supported the Republika Srpska Day and the referendum. [8] The Republika Srpska National Assembly passed a resolution on the referendum on 15 July 2016, with the backing of all Serb parties and the boycott of Bosniak Republika Srpska MPs.
In a statement, the U.S. embassy in Sarajevo urged Bosnia's legal authorities to “investigate any violations of law” related to the marking of Jan. 9 as the day of the Republika Srpska entity ...
The most important of the entity holidays is the Day of Republika Srpska, which commemorates the establishment of Republika Srpska on 9 January 1992. Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina declared the holiday unconstitutional on 26 November 2015 stating that the main issue for it being coinciding with a religious holiday.
Serb control during the Yugoslav Wars. During the Yugoslav Wars, the aim of Republika Srpska (a Serb-controlled territory in the Socialist Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina) was unification with the rest of what were considered Serb lands — the Republic of Serbian Krajina (RSK, in Croatia), Republic of Serbia and Republic of Montenegro – in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia). [4]
[31] On 7 April the United States and the EEC recognized Bosnia and Herzegovina as an independent state, [11] [32] and other members of the international community also recognized the country in early April. [33] That day, Bosnian Serb leaders declared independence and renamed their self-proclaimed entity the Republika Srpska. [24]
The National Bank of Yugoslavia (CBCG) also cut the Republika Srpska off, preventing it from redeeming its currency there and refusing to send more due to the CBCG's lack of foreign exchange assets. [42] Afterwards, Republika Srpska did not form its own currency and continued to use the Yugoslav one. In 1999, it adopted the convertible mark. [41]