"RS neither to separate nor disappear"

Miroslav Lajcak spoke against ideas that the Republic of Srpska (RS) should be abolished, or that this entity should separate. Both ideas, the Slovak diplomat who heads the Office of the High Representative (OHR) in Bosnia-Herzegovina, are "impossible, deeply immoral and technically undoable". "RS neither to separate nor disappear" "The lying to the people must stop – politicians are saying they will scrap the Republic of Srpska, while politicians from the other side, in that entity, are playing with the idea to separate from Bosnia-Herzegovina," he told Slovak reporters in Sarajevo today. "That is deeply immoral, the international community will never allow for it," Lajcak said, and added that, while "since 2006 until mid-2008 the attention was focused on Kosovo and then on Serbia, since the summer, Bosnia is once again the issue number one in the Balkans". After the dramatic local elections, he continued, the international community "must not allow things to take their own course", but must instead "more actively fulfill its obligations to have Bosnia return to its European perspective". "Bosnia is a country with an EU perspective, it has signed the SAA, and from this stems the EU's special responsibility," Lajcak added. Miroslav Lajcak (FoNet)

"RS neither to separate nor disappear"

"The lying to the people must stop – politicians are saying they will scrap the Republic of Srpska, while politicians from the other side, in that entity, are playing with the idea to separate from Bosnia-Herzegovina," he told Slovak reporters in Sarajevo today.

"That is deeply immoral, the international community will never allow for it," Lajčak said, and added that, while "since 2006 until mid-2008 the attention was focused on Kosovo and then on Serbia, since the summer, Bosnia is once again the issue number one in the Balkans".

After the dramatic local elections, he continued, the international community "must not allow things to take their own course", but must instead "more actively fulfill its obligations to have Bosnia return to its European perspective".

"Bosnia is a country with an EU perspective, it has signed the SAA, and from this stems the EU's special responsibility," Lajčak added.