German Named New International Overseer
Major Western powers named former German Cabinet minister Christian Schwarz-Schilling to oversee peace in Bosnia, and made a new call for the arrest of fugitive war crimes suspects a decade after the Balkans war ended.
Schwarz-Schilling, 75, will replace British politician Paddy Ashdown, who is stepping down in January as high representative of Bosnia-Herzegovina after more than three years.
The Peace Implementation Council, a group of major countries and international financial agencies, announced the decision after meeting to assess Bosnia’s progress since the 1995 Dayton accords.
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