The leadership of the Bosnian Serbs is intensifying its secession course. Will there be a new deployment of German soldiers in Bosnia? Defense Minister Lambrecht traveled to Sarajevo for talks.
At the start of a trip to the Balkans, Defense Minister Christine Lambrecht (SPD) called for increased efforts to ensure security and peace in south-eastern Europe.
“We have to ensure that this region remains stable. This is the only way to ensure that a rapprochement with NATO and the EU is possible, »said Lambrecht on Wednesday in the Bosnian capital Sarajevo. The federal government is currently examining whether, given the deteriorated security situation, German soldiers should be sent to Bosnia again.
Lambrecht pleaded for an extension of the EU military operation Eufor Althea in Bosnia, without already making public commitments for a new German participation with soldiers. Given the war in Ukraine, other regions should not be neglected, she said. “Security is definitely not divisible,” said Bosnia-Herzegovina’s defense minister, Sifet Podzic, at a press conference after the meeting with Lambrecht.
The Bosnian Serb Republic’s course of secession from the state as a whole had recently exacerbated tensions, which were also fueled by threats of Russian influence. In April, the Federal Foreign Office in Berlin confirmed that renewed participation by the Bundeswehr in the EU mission in Bosnia-Herzegovina was being examined.
The Eufor Althea mission was launched in 2004 to monitor security in Bosnia and the implementation of the 1995 Dayton Peace Accords to end the Bosnian war. Germany has not been involved in Eufor since November 2012. German soldiers were previously involved in the Ifor and Sfor military missions in Bosnia.
Theater of war with 100,000 dead
From 1992 to 1995, Bosnia was the scene of a war that killed 100,000 people. It ended with the Dayton Agreement in 1995, which also laid the foundations for the structure of today’s Bosnian state. The state consists of the Bosnian Serb Republic (Republika Srpska/RS) and the Bosnian-Croatian Federation (FBiH). A representative of the international community for Bosnia, currently the German Christian Schmidt, monitors compliance with the peace treaty.
Irrespective of the peace treaty, the Bosnian Serb Republic is persisting in attempts to break away from the Bosnia-Herzegovina state federation and to join the “mother republic” of Serbia. Development Minister Svenja Schulze (SPD) recently warned in the Bundestag that 30 years after the start of the war there were “threatening developments” again.
She criticized that in December last year the regional parliament of the Serbian state had decided to reverse all transfers of powers to the state as a whole since 1995 and to create its own institutions within six months. This affects all areas – such as the armed forces, the judiciary or the tax administration.
Source: Stern

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