UN envoy Inzko calls planned Bosnian Serb referendum a 'catastrophe'

deutsche welle
Politics
12.05.2011

Ethnically divided Bosnia faces its most serious crisis since its establishment, the UN's High Representative has warned. The regional Serb parliament is planning a referendum on the legality of Bosnia's national court.

Bosnia is divided between former wartime adversaries living in two autonomous regions - a separatist Serb Republic and a Muslim-Croat federation.
It is still without a government seven months after the last elections, and political leaders in the Serb Republic continue to advocate dissolving the country. In the latest challenge to central authority in Bosnia, the regional Serb parliament has backed plans for a referendum in June on the legality of Bosnia's national court, which prosecutes war crimes suspects.
The international High Representative for the Balkan state, Valentin Inzko, regards the planned vote as a blatant attack on the Dayton Peace Agreement and has threatened to cancel the referendum. Deutsche Welle's Christina Bergmann met Inzko in Washington. ....more...
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