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Austrian Vice Chancellor Strache under attack for Bosnia comments
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| Contributor | IndyGeorgia |
| Last Edited | IndyGeorgia Jan 18, 2018 08:56pm |
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| Category | Interview |
| Author | Judith Mischke |
| News Date | Thursday, January 18, 2018 07:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Opponents attacked Austria’s far-right Vice Chancellor Heinz-Christian Strache Thursday for saying Bosnia and Herzegovina can’t function as a state and its Serb Republic region should have the right to become independent.
Strache made the comments in an interview with the Serb Republic’s public TV station back in September, before he went into government, but they gained wide attention at home after being publicized this week by Austria’s NEOS liberal opposition party.
His remarks contradict the longstanding foreign policy of Austria and other Western nations. They have insisted Bosnia and Herzegovina must remain a single country, in accordance with the 1995 Dayton peace agreement, which brought to an end three years of war that killed about 100,000 people and forced millions from their homes. The peace deal split the country into two largely autonomous regions — the Serb Republic and the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, which is home mainly to Bosniaks and Croats. |
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