By Azem Kurtic

The US Treasury’s Office for Foreign Assets Control on Friday removed sanctions previously imposed on four officials from Bosnia’s Serb-run Republika Srpska entity.

They are Danijel Dragicevic, chief-of-staff to the Republika Srpska president, Jelena Pajic Bastinac, secretary general of the entity’s presidency, Milenkovic Dijana, director of Radio Television of Republika Srpska and Goran Rakovic, who was head of protocol in the office of the president.

All four were sanctioned at different times for participation in the organisation of the Day of Republika Srpska on January 9, which the Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina twice declared unconstitutional.

The decision to remove sanctions comes after the Serb-led entity invested heavily in lobbying the US after

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