Bosnia’s electoral authorities have removed separatist Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik from his position as president of the Serb entity in Bosnia, following an appeals court verdict sentencing him to one year in jail and a six-year ban on all political activities.

Bosnia's electoral authorities stripped Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik of his presidency Wednesday after a state-level appeals chamber upheld a verdict sentencing him to a six-year ban from politics.

Bosnian Serb entity President Milorad Dodik on Wednesday insisted he was going nowhere after Bosnia's electoral commission said he had been formally stripped of his post due to a one-year jail term.The Republika Srpska president was given the prison sentence last Friday and banned from public office for six years after being found guilty of flouting the rulings of the international envoy who monitors the peace accords that ended the country's bloody war in the 1990s.