NATO boss Rutte warns Bosnia to unity

In the face of again increasing tensions in Bosnia-Herzegovina hat NATO-General secretary Mark Rutte Called the country to unity.

“We will not allow the hard-fought peace to be endangered,” said Rutte after a meeting with the three-member presidency of the Western Balkans Sarajevo on Monday.

The reason for the latest tensions is the judgment against Milorad Dodik

NATO supports the territorial integrity of Bosnia-Herzegovinas, said Rutte. The political leadership of the country is now required, the tensions between the Bosniak-Croatian part of the country and the Serbian Republika Srpska to add.

The starting point for the latest discussion was a court ruling against the Bosnian Serbian leader Milorad Dodik. This had been sentenced to one year in prison because he had signed the laws of the Serbian Republic, the decisions of the Bosnian Constitutional Court and the International Sonder Christian Schmidt Expose. The regional parliament of the Serbs then passed a law that prevented the state police and the judiciary access to Republika Srpska.

The high representative monitors the implementation of the dayton agreement

As a high representative, the German Schmidt should monitor the implementation of the civil aspects of the 1995 Dayton Agreement. The war in Bosnia from 1992 to 1995, part of a series of ethnic conflicts after the decay of Yugoslavia, cost around 100,000 people. As part of a 1995 Agreement, the Dayton Peace Agreement, two autonomous regions have been set up: the Serbian Republic and the federation shared by Croatian and Muslim Bosniaks. They are connected by a weak central government.

In the Dayton Treaty, NATO was commissioned to monitor the peace agreement and, if necessary, to enforce. In 2004 NATO handed the mandate to the European Union. The Austrian Armed Forces with regular up to 700 relatives are also involved in the Eufor Althea mission and also provides with Brigadier Herbert Sailer whose boss of the staff. In addition, the Federal Army has operational reserve staff in a number of 200 due to the latest tensions. The EU had decided in March 2024 to open membership negotiations with the country.