US and European diplomats continue standoff over top Bosnia and Herzegovina post
European powers resist Trump administration’s pick for high representative after incumbent pushed outDiplomats from the US and Europe have been unable to resolve their differences and agree on a new top international envoy in Bosnia and Herzegovina, in a standoff…
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European powers resist Trump administration’s pick for high representative after incumbent pushed out
Diplomats from the US and Europe have been unable to resolve their differences and agree on a new top international envoy in Bosnia and Herzegovina, in a standoff which has become a transatlantic test of wills over influence in the Balkans.
A meeting in Sarajevo to select a new high representative, a post with far-reaching powers, ended without a compromise, in a spat that has undermined western cohesion in the region in the Trump era.
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