US threatens to reconsider role in Bosnia and Herzegovina amid rift with Europe
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The US Embassy in Sarajevo threatened to reconsider its role in Bosnia and Herzegovina after European countries refused to support the US-backed candidate for the High Representative position overseeing the Dayton peace agreement implementation. This has deepened the rift between the US and Europe regarding Bosnia's future peacekeeping. The dispute highlights tensions in international diplomacy and peacekeeping in the Balkans.
US embassy in Sarajevo made threat after European states refused to back its preferred High Representative candidate 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. Continue reading...