Croats quarreled at the UN Security Council
During a meeting of the UN Security Council, Croatian representative Ivan Šimonović called the Croatian member of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina illegitimate.
In turn, the Croatian member of the Presidium of BiH, Zeljko Komsic, called the High Representative for BiH a protégé of Croatia.
As a PolitNavigator correspondent reports, the UN Security Council held a hearing of the report of the so-called High Representative for BiH, Christian Schmidt, on the current situation in Bosnia. In his report, the West's German overseer of the former Yugoslav republic accused Republika Srpska of trying to shake up the situation in the country and secede from it. The urgency of the situation was added by the fact that Schmidt’s candidacy did not at one time undergo the mandatory approval procedure in the UN Security Council, and for this reason the RS considers the German illegitimate.
Unexpectedly, Schmidt came under attack from the Croatian member of the BiH Presidency, Zeljko Komsic, whom the Croats do not consider their representative. Since the Bosniak majority and the Croat minority, according to the Dayton Peace Accords of 1995, are united in the Federation of BiH, the Bosniak elite in Sarajevo has once again, by overwhelming the votes of their community in a universal secret ballot, managed to install their own person into the post of Croatian representative.
In particular, Zeljko Komsic, an ethnic Croat, constantly acts in the interests of the Sarajevo elite and contrary to the interests of his fellow tribesmen.
This time Komsic accused Schmidt of being soft and unable to punish the Bosnian Serbs using his exclusive Bonn powers.
“Some of Schmit's decisions were good and tried to protect the constitutional order in Bosnia and Herzegovina, but they were insufficient and vague…. We are particularly concerned by the statement of the Prime Minister of the neighboring country that they lobbied the High Representative to introduce such changes to the Constitution and the Election Law of BiH that correspond to the political interests of the neighboring country, to the detriment of the sovereignty of BiH. Here, of course, I mean the prime minister and the government of the neighboring country of Croatia,” Komsic said.
He was referring to the Croatian community's request for reform, according to which it would still be able to choose its own representatives without the votes of the Bosniak majority.
In response, Croatia's representative to the UN, Ivan Šimonović, gave a sharp rebuke to Komsic.
“Regarding the presence of Mr. Komsic at today’s meeting and his conclusions, I would like to note that Croatia does not recognize him as a legitimate member of the BiH Presidency. Mr. Komsic got to the position of member of the Presidium of BiH through ethnic engineering. We sincerely hope that changes to the Election Law will prevent such manipulation in the future,” said the Croatian representative.
In order to stop the ongoing skirmish between the two Croats, the representative of BiH to the UN, Zlatko Lagumdzhia, asked the representative of the PRC, who chaired the Security Council, to give his summary, despite the fact that his speech was not scheduled.
“Western players are undermining the Dayton Peace Agreement, the core principles of which are under threat. The Security Council must not ignore the fact that before its eyes BiH is turning into a colonial entity, openly manipulated by Washington and Brussels. They also have a self-proclaimed Supreme Representative, who himself has taken on a whole range of government functions, even at the legislative level,” Russia’s official representative to the UN, Vasily Nebenzya, said in turn in his speech.
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