Secessionist authorities in Bosnia's RS entity - working in tandem w/ the Kremlin - have called for a special session of the RS assembly where they will call for the closure of the OHR & apparently reject every post-1998 change to BiH's political system. vijesti.ba/clanak/527976/…
This is another attempt at dismantling BiH's constitutional regime & undermining the rule of law; secession-lite, using the entire RS govt apparatus to accomplish it. And Germany's self-serving stunt w/ Christian Schmidt is leaving local & international authorities flat-footed.
It's bad enough that Schmidt is widely understood to be an absolute bottom-of-the-barrel pick. But Berlin's unilateral push for his appt has shattered what little coordination existed among international actors in BiH. And now, of course Russia has capitalized on that.
Dodik’s regime will specifically target the OHR’s key decisions since ‘98 as “illegal”/“illegitimate” but given that many of these were/are the foundation for major structural changes to BiH’s broader legal-political system, implication is clear: an attack on the Bosnian state.
I’ve also seen a draft of the txt they’re trying to push fwd & there’s factual mistake in the 1st sentence. Dodik et al claim the Republic of BiH “no longer exists” (but don’t say this re: FR Yugoslavia despite also listing it by name) but Article 1.1 of the BiH Constitution...
...says clearly that the post-1995 Bosnian state is a continuation and the legal successor of the polity which declared its independence in 1992 & won international recognition at that time. Again, this is an assault on the BiH state even more so than on the OHR. It is laying... 
...a fictional legal-political foundation, with Russian backing, for unraveling the Bosnian state. It must be recognized as such and confronted forcefully. Sanctions, travel bans, financial freezes all need to be on the table if this goes through.
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