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"A deepening US-European rift over the future of Bosnia and Herzegovina has
broken open with a dispute over a top administrative post, leading to a US
threat to “reconsider” its role in international peacekeeping.
The American embassy in Sarajevo issued the threat after European states
refused to back the US preferred candidate to become the new High
Representative for the international community. At a meeting this week in
Sarajevo of the Peace Implementation Council (PIC) – a multinational group
tasked with overseeing the implementation of the 1995 Dayton peace agreement –
Washington supported an Italian diplomat, Antonio Zanardi Landi, while the UK,
France, Germany and most European states backed France’s envoy to the Western
Balkans, René Troccaz.
The Trump administration also argued for a weakening of the High
Representative’s power to enforce the principles of the Dayton, which ended a
war that cost 100,000 lives but has done little to heal Bosnia’s ethnic
divide."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
