Bosnia Presidency's Outoing Serb Slates OHR

Nebojsa Radmanovic, Serbian member of Bosnia's Presidency, at his farewell press conference on November 13 savaged the work of the Office of High Representative, OHR, which is tasked with overseeing implementation of the 1995 Dayton accords.

Radmanovic said High Representative Valentin Inzko's regular reports to the UN were untrue and unfounded.

"Unfortunately, Inzko will be sitting here for another four years and we will have eight more reports that are badly written, false and tendentious," he said.

Presenting his latest report to the UN this week, Inzko said, among other matters, that challenges to the Dayton accords and the sovereignty of Bosnia must stop, in what appeared a clear reference to Bosnian Serb calls for greater independence, or secession.

"I am appalled that some leaders still insult the intelligence of their own citizens, believing that talk of secession, division and hatred will hide their own failures to deliver a better life for people," Inzko said, in an apparent jibe at Milorad Dodik, head of the main Serbian party in Bosnia, the Alliance of Independent Social Democrats, SNSD - to which Radmanovic belongs.

"As the calls for a referendum on secession have been repeated time and time again in recent months, I have had to respond by reminding people of the facts: the entities do not have the right to secede under the [1995] Peace Agreement," Inzko told the UN.

Radmanovic retorted on Thursday that Inzko and the OHR were the ones harming the independence of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

"Inzko and those like him from the international community have sovereignty here," Radmanovic said, "Sovereignty is ruling over your territory and they are not giving that to us." He urged everyone in...