The session of the United Nations Security Council, where the Report of Christian Schmidt on the situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina will be discussed, should be held on May 10. Schmidt and BiH Presidency Chairman Željka Cvijanović should also address the Security Council. Even before the mentioned session, it is evident that the addresses will be completely opposite.
Another High Representative’s Report will be before UN members next week. Chairman of the BiH Presidency Željka Cvijanović should also speak on behalf of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Christian Schmidt says that if he questions his legitimacy in the UN, he will get an answer. A reaction followed very quickly.
“Then she will get an answer from the UN that she will not like. I am ready to support her. If she wants to have Russian advisers, she might misinform. It is quite clear that my position within the work of the international community and the UN is there because of that’s why I will also be in the UN Security Council”, said Schmidt.
“I don’t see any reason to exchange media messages with Christian Schmidt. If I address the Security Council, then I do so in the capacity and on the basis of the mandate given to me by the people in the elections”, Cvijanovic added.
If the expected difference in attitudes is excluded, it is certain that the six-month report of theHR will present a rounded view of quite turbulent and important events on our political scene since October last year.
Milan Sitarski, Institute for Socio-Political Events from Mostar: “Twice the High Representative had to intervene in our electoral system and our Constitution with limited interventions, but they made it possible for the electoral process to be brought to an end smoothly. I assume that the report will reflect on the significance of all those events and that it will be praised relatively early and further functioning of the Council of Ministers”.
Sitarski believes that it will be most interesting to see segments related to disputes between Banjaluka and Sarajevo regarding the understanding of what state property is and to whom it belongs. It is not the first time that the Government of Republika Srpska has sent its Report. This time, the Presidency is headed by a Serbian member who has the opportunity to speak as a representative of the state, but not to present a document of the Entity Government.
Nedzma Dzananovic Mirascija, professor of the Faculty of Political Science in Sarajevo
“Based on her previous positions and statements, we can also assume what she will talk about. About the original Dayton, deny that any blockages, especially of the European path and state reforms, come from that entity. Challenging the election of the High Representative is part of a common arsenal that we had the opportunity to see”.
“We know how it was handled in all the previous years according to the Report that was sent from the Board of the Republika Srpska and they were never on the agenda, they were never presented. Maybe through some lobbying channels they are presented in some designated offices”, Tanja Topic, political analyst, says.
As with the previous ones, experts do not expect anything radical from the new report that will be presented to the Security Council. A rounded view of the previous six-month period with which UN members will be officially introduced.
