Germany calls calls for parts of Bosnia to secede irresponsible
REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, BERLIN – Calls for parts of Bosnia to secede or weaken Balkan countries it is irresponsible and unacceptable. So said a German official, naming Bosnian Serb politician Milorad Dodik as the culprit.
German Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Andrea Sasse said the situation in Bosnia, where Dodik, one of three members of the Bosnian Serb presidency, called for a balanced federation to be more decentralized, would be discussed by the foreign minister. European Union on Monday.
“Calls for secession and steps to weaken the whole country, especially from Republika Srpska and from Milorad Dodik, a member of the three-member Serbian presidency are completely irresponsible and unacceptable,” Sasse said.
“This jeopardizes the stability of not only Bosnia-Herzegovina but the whole region,” he told the government’s regular press conference.
Bosnia was organized into a multi-ethnic federation as part of a resolution to break up Yugoslavia into seven successor states. The outbreak occurred in a series of wars that claimed more than 100,000 lives and lasted for much of the 1990s.
source : Reuters
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