Minister Kubis is Concerned by Statements of Bosnian Serbs

Slovak Foreign Minister Jan Kubis resolutely rejects all considerations about disintegration of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH). At a new conference following his meeting with his Macedonian counterpart Antonio Milososki in Bratislava on Tuesday, the minister stated that after the war in the Balkans, which especially hit Bosnia hard, and also based on the Dayton and Paris Peace Accords, he regards such considerations misplaced. Mr. Kubis is concerned about threats by politicians of Republika Srpska, who are threatening to leave state institutions in response to reforms proposed by EU high representative in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Slovak diplomat Miroslav Lajcak. Mr. Kubis is also concerned about the position of Serbia and its Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica, who for the first time linked the situation in Republika Srpska with the situation surrounding Kosovo. Mr. Kubis supported EU high representative Lajcak and underscored that he gave an impulse to politicians who had been passive for two years, not being able to take steps that would enable BiH to sign a Stabilization and Association Agreement with the European Union.
Under the Dayton Peace Accords, which ended the 1992-95 war, Bosnia is composed of two autonomous regions, the Muslim-Croat Federation and Republika Srpska, which are linked by a weak central government with limited authority.