Schmidt Presenting New Report to U.N. Security Council on Nov. 2

United Nations Security Council (Photo:UN/Loey Felipe)

The high representative in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Christian Schmidt, is to present the report on the situation in the country to the United Nations Security Council on Nov. 2, which reads that, since he took office, there had been no such “level of attacks” on his mandate and the Dayton agreement as the present one. 

Schmidt stated that the attacks came mostly from Republika Srpska (RS) President Milorad Dodik. In the report, which covers the period from mid-April to mid-October, the high representative urged all political actors in Bosnia to fully adhere to the Dayton agreement and direct attention on the crucial political and economic reforms. 

He stressed that the international community had to continue its support of Bosnia and Herzegovina in implementing the Dayton agreement, and that it had to “decisively oppose the attacks on the peace agreement, the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Bosnia and Herzegovina.” 

“The ruling coalition in Republika Srpska, headed by the Alliance of Independent Social Democrats, continued to maintain a dangerous policy of unilateral imposition of wrong interpretations of the Dayton agreement and of the constitutional framework of Bosnia and Herzegovina around a hypothetical concept of ‘original Dayton’,” Schmidt wrote in the report.