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SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — Bosnian Serb nationalist leader Milorad Dodik has dismissed U.S. sanctions imposed on him for obstructing the peace accords that ended Bosnia's war two decades ago, calling it a reversible act of revenge by the departing Obama administration.
Dodik, who is the president of Republika Srpska, Serb-run part of Bosnia, said Wednesday he was confident his relationship with the U.S. will improve when President-elect Donald Trump takes office.
The U.S. Treasury Department announced a day earlier that it is designating Dodik for threatening national sovereignty by defying a ruling of Bosnia's constitutional court.
The sanctions mean any assets Dodik has in the United States are now blocked and Americans are banned from doing business with him.
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