Germany slams Bosnian Serb leader for threatening to arrest international peace envoy
BERLIN (AA) – Germany has condemned Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik for threatening to arrest a top international official overseeing peace in Bosnia.
Speaking to media representatives in Berlin, Christian Wagner, the Foreign Ministry’s deputy spokesman, said Dodik’s threats against the high international representative Christian Schmidt were “completely unacceptable.”
“Such an order would be illegal and would also be a violation of the Dayton Peace Agreement,” he added.
On Wednesday, Dodik had said that a decree was being prepared for “the arrest and deportation” of the high international representative in case he tries to enter Republika Srpska.
“If he (Schmidt) comes for a meeting to Republika Srpska, he will be kicked out,” Dodik said.
Bosnian Serbs say they do not recognize Schmidt as Bosnia’s international high representative because he was not endorsed by the UN Security Council.
The post of the international envoy was drawn up in the Dayton peace accords that ended Bosnia’s devastating war in the 1990s to oversee peace in the Balkan country, split into two autonomous regions – the Serb Republic and the Federation dominated by the majority Muslim Bosniaks and Croats.
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