Serbia will ignore U.S. sanctions recently imposed on top Bosnian Serb officials for undermining a 1995 peace agreement that ended the Bosnian War, the Serbian president said on August 4. Aleksandar Vucic said that the sanctioned ethnic Serb officials from neighboring Bosnia-Herzegovina will still be welcome in Serbia. “The Republic of Serbia will treat the sanctions as if they do not exist,” Vucic said during a visit to Republika Srpska, the Serbian entity of Bosnia. The four Bosnian Serb officials were designated for sanctions by the U.S. Treasury on July 31. To read the original story by AP, click here.
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