Global Courant
Belgrade Serbia
The Speaker of Bosnia and Herzegovina’s House of Representatives urged NATO on Sunday to send troops to the self-governing administrative unit of the Brcko Region in the country’s northeast.
Denis Zvizdic’s remarks came ahead of the military alliance’s summit held on 11 and 12 July in the Lithuanian capital, Vilnius.
“Such a decision will prevent and then permanently disable the separation project initiated by the National Assembly of Republika Srpska (RS), one of the two sides of Bosnia and Herzegovina,” he said on his social media account.
Zvizdic said that NATO’s deployment of troops to the region would remove one of the biggest threats facing Bosnia and Herzegovina.
In April, Bosnia requested an increase in the number of troops in the European Union Force – Operation Althea (EUFOR Althea), the EU’s peacekeeping mission in the country.
Operation Althea is a military deployment in Bosnia and Herzegovina, established in 2004 to oversee the military implementation of the Dayton Peace Agreement and ensure security in the country.
Republika Srpska adopted a law in late June nullifying the decisions of the Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
RS President Milorad Dodik said in his speech that the decision will be the basis of the party’s independence.
The internationally appointed High Representative, Christian Schmidt, declared that it would not be able to enter into force by canceling the decisions taken by the party.
However, the party council has decided not to publish any decision taken by Schmidt in its official gazette.
The Constitutional Court consists of three Bosnian, three Serb and three Croatian judges.
In order to overcome the crisis that arose after two of the Serbian judges withdrew and one of them was forced to retire, an extraordinary session was held on June 19, without the participation of Serbian members.
Dodik reacted sharply to this step of the Constitutional Court, which aimed to pave the way for the functioning of the Serbian judges without the participation of the Serbian judges, and demanded the annulment of the decision.
Bosnia and Herzegovina’s top priorities are to join NATO as well as the political and economic community of European states.
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