Schmidt badly tells Dodik: He can't go back without losing his face.

Christian Schmidt, the former German minister who serves as the top representative of the International Community in Bosnia and Herzegovina, said Serb separatist leader Milorad Dodik had been convinced by regional leaders to suspend his plans to withdraw Serbian soldiers from the Bosnian National Army and rebuild a Bosnian Serb force.

“Guardian” during his stay in Washington.

“ “Unfortunately, there are very few military vehicles available”, he said, broadcast Zeri.info.

However, Smidti argued Dodik's separatist rhetoric and its pledges to secede the legal and tax systems in half of the Serb-run country are leading the country towards a serious crisis.

“These self-fulfilling tactics have reached a point where he [Dodiku] cannot go back without losing his face”, he said. My “My impression is that we are very, very close to this point and this requires a very clear response from the international community”.

“I would say that the challenge of such dissolution of Bosnia and Herzegovina is that this cannot be limited to Bosnia and Herzegovina”, Schmidt said.

The top international representative in BiH was in Washington for talks with Beden's foreign policy team about the threat of the Dayton Peace Accord collapse, which ended the war in 1995. His assistants were encouraged that national security adviser Jake Sullivan made an unexpected presentation at their meeting with White House officials, whom they saw as a signal that the administration “Beden” would pay closer and higher attention to developments in Bosnia.

After a visit to the region by State Department adviser Derek Chollet, who wrote the history of the Dayton State Department and in light of Dodik's threats, US officials have said they are reevaluating Washington's policy in Bosnia, which has so far been low and focused on electoral reform.

I am very happy to see that in recent years there was no strategy, because it was impressive not only in the US but also in the European Union, that things would go [peaceably]”, Schmidt said. He stressed that, on his tour of Western capitals, he was seeking, not additional international peacekeepers, but a unified diplomatic commitment.

Kurt Bassuener, co-founder of the Council of Democratic Policy, a Berlin-based institute, argued Schmidt was too optimistic about the chances of avoiding violence and said there was more than enough military equipment in the country to promote another conflict.

“The last “Picka is that there is more than enough equipment to happen very bad stuff”.

Schmidt's position is under diplomatic pressure. Moscow opposed his appointment and does not know his authority. Russia and China insisted that any mention of the high representative be removed from a recent UN Security Council resolution on Bosnia. Dodik has refused to meet him, questioning his legitimacy.

But Schmidt, who has support from the rest of the international community, said he would not be forced to leave. “I will stay and [fulfill] my responsibility”, he said.