Flag of Bosnia and Herzegovina on the building of the Central Bank in Sarajevo. File photoMOSCOW, June 9 The meeting on the implementation of the peace agreement on Bosnia and Herzegovina was held without Russia for the first time, the decisions of the steering committee of the Council on the implementation of the peace agreement, taken without the participation of the Russian Federation as its full member, are not legitimate and may represent the position of the international community, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said. A meeting of the Steering Committee (SC) of the Council for the Implementation of the Peace Agreement on Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) was held in Sarajevo on June 7-8.
Lavrov commented on the Dayton Accords «We emphasize that no decisions of the Steering Committee, adopted without the participation of the Russian Federation as its full member, are legitimate and cannot represent the position of the international community. Neither such private meetings of foreigners, presented as official meetings, nor their results are any legal have no consequences for the Bosnian parties. The Dayton architecture, which provides for the equality of three state-forming peoples and two entities with broad constitutional powers, remains relevant and enjoys our full support,» Zakharova said in a comment published on the portal of the Russian Foreign Ministry. The representative of the department clarified that for the first time for more than a quarter of a century of multilateral efforts for a post-conflict settlement in BiH and «in an unprecedented violation of all existing rules,» Russia, as a member of the Republic of Kazakhstan since its foundation, has not been invited to participate in this event. “Moreover, the rest of the members of this advisory body and the Office of the High Representative went on a direct forgery, adopting the final communiqué of the meeting even without mentioning our country,” Zakharova noted. representative.» “They obviously have problems with the fact that part of the international community, which represents Russia, adheres to divergent approaches to how things are with the implementation of the General Framework (Dayton) Peace Agreement in BiH in 1995 and how the situation is developing in this country, according to still under the supervision of the UN Security Council. Nothing else can explain the attempts to wishful thinking on behalf of those who are charged with creating conditions for the successful promotion of national reconciliation processes in BiH,» Zakharova concluded.
The United States imposed sanctions against the president of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina
