Given the recent tensions in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the EU mission Eupor has announced a “temporary reinforcement” of its strength. This is a “proactive measure that aims to support Bosnia and Herzegovina in the interest of all its citizens,” said the mission on Friday evening.
The EUFOR initially did not provide any information about the number of extra forces. NATO has also announced that Secretary General Mark Rutte will visit the Bosnian capital Sarajevo on Monday.
On Friday, the Bosnian constitutional court had suspended a law signed by the Bosnian Serbian leader Milorad Dodik, who rejects the authority of the general Bosnian police and the judiciary within the Republic of SRPSKA, which is mainly inhabited by Bosnian Series. The decision of the parliament of the Republika SRPSKA was a response to a decision by the court against Dodik, which was sentenced to a year in prison for ignoring the high representative of the UN.
Austria is also involved in Peaceworthiness Troops
The EUBOR Althea stabilization mission, guided by the EU, currently has around 1500 soldiers in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The Bundesher with regular a maximum of 700 family members is also involved in the mission of Eurfor Athea, which is supposed to guarantee peace since the end of the War in Bosnia. Moreover, the federal army has operational reserve personnel in a number of 200 for business, as it took place. The Bosnian Muslim representative of the three-person presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Denis Bećirović, asked the eupor to use their soldiers “on strategic points” in the country.
Bosnia-Herzegovina is divided into the Republica SRPSKA, which was usually inhabited by Bosnian Serbs, and the Croatian Muslim Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina since the Dayton Agreement completed in 1995. The two Semi-Autonome parts of the country are connected by a weak central government. Almost a third of the 3.5 million inhabitants of Bosnia live in the Republica SRPSKA, the area of which is almost half the state of Balkan. The influential office of a high representative of the UN as a guard about the peace treaty is also determined.
Location since the end of the war 30 years ago
The law, which has now been exposed, had further tightened the already tense situation. The Srebrenica Memorial in the Republika SRPSKA announced that it had “closed” its doors to further notice. Their leadership justified this with uncertainty caused by the continuous political crisis.
In the Bosnian city of Srebrenica, Serbian units killed around 8,000 Muslim men and boys in the summer of 1995. The massacre has been considered one of the worst war crimes in Europe since the Second World War and was classified as a genocide by the International Criminal Court for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and the International Court of Justice (igh), the highest UN court.
Warning USA
After Dodik’s request to leave the Bosnian police and the judiciary, the American Foreign Minister Marco Rubio also warned of a destabilization of the region. Dodik’s approach to the central state institutions of Bosnia and Herzegovina threatens the “safety and stability” of the country, Rubio explained on Friday (local time) in the online service X. “We call our partners in the region to join us and approach this dangerous and destabilizing behavior,” Rubio added.
The Posting Rubios on X:
Dodik called Bosnian Serbs on Friday to leave their posts with the police and the judiciary and instead to become a member of the institutions of the Republika SRPSKA. A job was guaranteed while retaining their rank, their position and their salary, Dodik said. He later emphasized that there were no plans for a violent escalation, but the part of the country he led “the ability to defend himself, and we will do that too”.
Dodik had previously signed the law, which was later temporarily canceled by the Constitutional Court, with the police and judiciary of the central state of Bosnia and Herzegovina from the Republika SRPSKA. With his signature, Dodik set rules on Wednesday that Bosnian Serbs threaten up to five years in prison if they continue to work for the police or the judiciary of the central state.
With the law that was previously adopted by Parliament, the influence of the central government of the Balkan State in the area is intended to limit. The push of parliament was a response to a decision by a court against Dodik, which was sentenced to a year in prison for ignoring the influential high representative of the UN in Bosnia.
Source: Krone
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