Valentin Inzko

The international community will not allow a redrawing of Bosnia-Herzegovina (BiH) borders, High Representative Valentin Inzko has told Deutsche Welle.

Inzko says that he has not thought so far about sacking Milorad Dodik or about reaching for other Bonn powers.

He adds that the secession of the Serb Republic (RS) will not occur.

Russia's Deputy Permanent Representative to the UN Vladimir Safronkov has accused the high representative for Bosnia-Herzegovina (BiH) of Serbophobia.

According to Safrankov, who spoke during a UN Security Council meeting, Valentin Inzko has also "lost touch with reality."

Russia's Deputy Permanent Representative to the UN Vladimir Safronkov has accused the high representative for Bosnia-Herzegovina (BiH) of Serbophobia.

According to Safronkov, who spoke during a UN Security Council meeting, Valentin Inzko has also "lost touch with reality."

Prime Minister Ana Brnabic met on Monday on the margins of the Bled Strategic Forum in Slovenia with High Representative for Bosnia-Herzegovina Valentin Inzko.

According to the Serbian government, she said that Serbia wants to continue fruitful cooperation with Bosnia-Herzegovina.

BELGRADE - The Serbian republic in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) has severed all ties with the international envoy to the Balkan state over his controversial remark about a national holiday.

Over 99 percent voted in Republika Srpska's referendum last September to mark the date of its creation on January 2, 1992 as a national holiday, in a move ruled illegal by Bosnia's top court.

The government of the Serb Republic (RS), the Serb entity in Bosnia-Herzegovina, has decided to suspend all contacts with High Representative Valentin Inzko.

This came after Inzko compared the marking of RS Day on January 9 to the establishment of the WW2-Nazi allied Independent State of Croatia (NDH), that ran death camps where mass murder of Serbs, Jews, and Roma occurred.

The government of the Bosnian Serb entity Republika Srpska announced on Thursday that it has suspended communication with the country's High Representative Valentin Inzko, demanding an apology for statements in which Inzko compared celebrating the entity's anniversary on January 9 to commemorating the foundation of the Independent State of Croatia, a puppet state of Nazi Germany during WWII.

The international community would never accept a referendum on the secession of the Serb Republic (RS), says Valentin Inzko.

The Austrian diplomat, who serves as high international representative for Bosnia-Herzegovina, also told the Croatian weekly Globus that he himself would "never sign such a thing."

Voters in Bosnia-Herzegovina's entity of Republika Srpska have defied a ruling by the country's top court which bans celebrations in the region on January 09, according to local media.

In a referendum held on Sunday, an overwhelming 99.79% of voters have replied with a "yes" when asked whether or not to celebrate their annual "statehood" holiday, Balkan Insight reports.

Bosnia needs to further develop its private sector, cut the public sector and fight pervasive corruption if it wants to increase its prosperity in future, experts say.

Increasing the private sector's share in the economy is of primary interest for Bosnia, Ian Brown, the Head of Office of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development in Bosnia, EBRD, told BIRN on Monday.