State Department adviser visits Bosnia and Herzegovina

The US is urging leaders of this country to engage in constructive dialogue to resolve political disputes.

Chollet will remain in Bosnia and Herzegovina until 17 November.

He will hold talks with members of the tripartite presidency of this country, with the International High Representative, Christian Schmidt, as well as other Bosnian officials.

In late April, Chollet urged politicians in Bosnia and Herzegovina to discuss key progress and reforms, instead of stimulating rhetoric and exclusive demands, the United States Embassy in Sarajevo had announced at the time.

During his stay in Sarajevo, Chollet is expected to refocus officials that functional institutions, democratic at all levels of governance are key to a better future for all citizens, both in the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Republika Srpska (RS), as well as in the Brcko district.

Cholle's visit follows that of US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Europe and Eurasia, simultaneously the envoy for the Western Balkans, Gabriel Escobar, early November.

He told the citizens of Bosnia and Herzegovina that his country would never support unilateral activities that would jeopardise the Dayton Peace Agreement.

Bosnia and Herzegovina's tripartite presidency member, Milorad Dodik, has threatened with the removal of Republika Srpska from national institutions, such as tax authority, medicine agency and the military.

According to the Constitution of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), the entities of Republika Srpska and the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina cannot independently reverse the competencies transferred to the state in the previous period.

Republika Srpska along with the Muslim-Croatian Federation are the two entities that make up Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Such organisation is done with the so-called Dayton Agreement, which has ended the war in Bosnia in the 1990s.