All police agencies in Bosnia and Herzegovina have received information about the arrest warrant issued for the three Bosnian Serb officials and are obligated to detain them, but that did not prevent the Speaker of the Parliament of Republika Srpska, Nenad Stevandic, from crossing the border.

The Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina, at the request of the Bosnian Prosecutor's Office, ordered the detention of Stevandic, as well as the President and Prime Minister of Republika Srpska, Milorad Dodik and Radovan Viskovic, after they refused to answer questions as part of an investigation in which they are suspected of a crime against the constitutional order.

A central arrest warrant has been issued for all three, valid for the territory of BiH, and all police agencies in the country are obliged to arrest them and hand them over to the Court of BiH if they find them.

"Since yesterday, all police authorities have had this arrest warrant and are obliged to act on it," confirmed on Wednesday the director of the Police Directorate of the Ministry of Interior of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Vahidin Munjic.

He explained that the Federation Ministry of Interior is prepared to arrest Dodik, Stevandic and Viskovic if they appear on the territory of that entity, but stressed that their detention is primarily the task of state-level police authorities, since the arrest warrant was issued by the state court.

In an interview with N1 television, Munjic explained that this primarily concerns the State Investigation and Protection Agency (SIPA) and the Bosnian Border Police. This particularly applies to Stevandic, who traveled to Belgrade on Saturday to support Aleksandar Vucic, at the height of student anti-government protests.

Stevandic said from Belgrade that he is not afraid of arrest and that he will return to BiH on Friday, where he will hold a press conference in Banja Luka.

"I am sure that the border police will act professionally, they must deprive him of his liberty," said Munjic, but news soon arrived that Stevandic was already in Banja Luka and that his meeting with Dodik was planned for that day.

How, when and where Stevandic managed to cross the border despite the arrest warrant has not been clarified.

SIPA is currently in a kind of deadlock, as its current director Darko Kulum resigned and decided to move to work at the RS Ministry of Interior, responding to demands sent to employees of state police agencies by entity authorities, giving them until Wednesday.

The BiH Council of Ministers has not yet appointed an acting director of SIPA, while the RS government confirmed on Wednesday that it has prepared its own draft law under which the entity's police would take over surveillance of part of BiH's border with Croatia, Serbia and Montenegro, in order to abolish the powers currently held by the BiH Border Police.

All of this further increases tensions in the country and worsens the political crisis caused by attempts by the RS authorities to de facto separate that entity from BiH by adopting unconstitutional laws.

"We cannot say that the situation is normal. The people are anxious," Munjic said on Wednesday, although he claimed that police on the ground currently have no information indicating direct security threats.