Republika Srpska Prime Minister Savo Minić said that the appointment of Louis Crishock as Acting High Representative is merely a technical solution resulting from the failure to reach consensus on the appointment of a new High Representative.
Minić stressed that Bosnia and Herzegovina does not need High Representatives or, as he put it, “any kind of foreign tutors.”
“The people in Republika Srpska and the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina are fully aware that we must talk to one another. The only possible way forward is dialogue without tutors and without anyone who can influence developments in any way,” Minić told reporters in Srbac.
He also recalled the actions taken by Christian Schmidt, including amendments to the Criminal Code of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the suspension of parts of the Constitution of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, arguing that such measures have no equivalent anywhere in the region.
EU member states and the United States again failed to agree on the name of a new High Representative during yesterday’s session of the Steering Board of the Peace Implementation Council (PIC). As a result, Louis Crishock was formally appointed Acting High Representative pending the final appointment of a new office-holder.
Source: RTRS
