Bosnia's autonomous Serb region passed legislation barring the national police and judiciary from its territory after a state court banned its separatist leader Milorad Dodik from politics for six years and sentenced him to a year in prison.

The Bosnian Serb leader, who heads one of two regions created to end the 1992-5 war that killed more than 100,000 people in multi-ethnic Bosnia, responded to his sentencing by ord

Bosnia's international high representative on Friday accused the country's Serb statelet's political leadership of seeking to destabilise the Balkan nation, and urged an end to actions that threaten to "undermine" its peace accords.