Wichtige Arbeit für Frieden und Stabilität: BPr #Steinmeier hat @OHR_BiH Christian Schmidt zum Gespräch empfangen. Mit dem Hohen Repräsentanten tauschte er sich zur aktuellen politischen Lage in der Region und die EU-Beitrittsperspektive für Bosnien und Herzegowina aus.

It seems #Dodik could escape justice for now, because bosnian institutions, ohr_bih, euforbih and others couldn't or wouldn't figure out who shall apprehend him. He is thought to be in Moscow already. A good moment, I figured, to try out @chatgpt's new (probably prospectively dangerous) functions

My first post here is a thread🧵 about the current crisis In #BosniaandHercegovina
#MiloradDodik has a scheduled visits in Moscow on wednesday. I call #Euforbih to make sure that he cannot escape justice, if BiH institutions or #OHR_BiH cannot.

These proposed laws must & will be overturned either by the BiH Constitutional Court or the @OHR_BiH but the international community must also empower the security organs & law enforcement of the BiH state to ensure that any actual step twd secession by Dodik et al will be...

The ECtHR cannot continue to exist if it fails to fulfil its responsibilities due to pressure from the Office of the High Representative (OHR_BiH), Prime Minister Plenković, or other foreign governments.

If human rights are not guaranteed for everyone, they are meaningless for anyone.

#Kovačević

@BalkanInsight: 3/4 | Dodik, as well as acting director of #RepublikaSrpska, Milos Lukic, are being charged due to "failure to comply with the decisions of the @OHR_BiH," a criminal offence imposed by HR Christian Schmidt.

@BalkanInsight: 💬 “I am not a diplomat; I am a politician,” Christian Schmidt, former cabinet minister and #Bundestag lawmaker told us in his Sarajevo office at @OHR_BiH

” I have to be sometimes very outspoken in my decisions.”

Our interview with #Bosnia's overseer 👇
https://t.co/swZa007pKH http

@BalkanInsight: 🎥| In a wide-ranging interview with BIRN, Christian Schmidt defended his interventionist approach to the role of @OHR_BiH and warned that the possibility of removing #BosnianSerb leader Milorad Dodik remains “on the table”.

https://t.co/swZa006RV9

- Host #JoachimHerrmann (Bavarian Minister of the Interior)

- @OHR_BiH Christian Schmidt

- Gen. #ChristopherCavoli #SACEUR

All born in #Franconia (like yours truly)!

However, the main takeaway of the event was of course another one:

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It was a distinct privilege and great pleasure to have met and had a good chat with @OHR_BiH Christian Schmidt yesterday at an @DAGATAGermany event in our native Franconia on the occasion of his assuming office as #HighlightRepresentativeForBosniaAndHerzegovina.

#BosniaIsEurope