Political analyst Nenad Kecmanović has said that the positions expressed by the United States, China and Russia, the world’s three major powers, point to the inevitable abolition of the Office of the High Representative (OHR) in BiH.
In an opinion article published by the Serbian newspaper Politika, Kecmanović noted that Russia and China advocate the immediate and unconditional closure of the OHR, while the United States continues to support its current leadership under Acting High Representative Louis Crishock.
However, he emphasized that Washington also believes the future of BiH must rest in the hands of its constituent peoples and elected representatives.
According to Kecmanović, the American position is that domestic political leaders should assume full responsibility for making independent political decisions.
Kecmanović: Crishock’s absence speaks volumes about the OHR’s future
Kecmanović argued that the future of the OHR was also reflected in Crishock’s absence from the latest United Nations Security Council session devoted to the situation in BiH.
He noted that the acting High Representative did not attend the meeting to defend his report.
“Crishock was instructed not to interfere in his own affairs, but merely to keep the vacant position in the OHR building occupied as an acting official with a technical mandate, so that another German like Christian Schmidt would not move in unlawfully again,” Kecmanović wrote.
Kecmanović discusses possibility of BiH’s dissolution
Assessing the broader political situation, Kecmanović suggested that the atmosphere both within BiH and internationally indicates that the country may be approaching conditions favorable to separation.
“Judging by the general atmosphere, it would seem that Bosnia is ready f
Source: RTRS
