German Chancellor did not threaten Bosnia and Herzegovina’s Presidency members who stayed in Berlin for a working dinner with the German Chancellor Angela Merkel, said Mladen Ivanic, member of Bosnia’s tripartite Presidency.

Ivanic added that Germany does not have a solution for the changes to Bosnia’s Election Law, nor is it their business to find a solution. Merkel, however, did ask how Germany can help in finding a solution to this problem which arose after the Constitutional Court issued a verdict two years ago, deleting several articles from the Election Law because it did not provide conditions for equal representation of peoples in the House of Peoples of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina (FBiH) entity.

According to Ivanic, Germany cares about the peace and stability of the region but the biggest problem during the meeting with Merkel was defining the problem in Bosnia itself.

“Some see one thing, while the others see something else. The differences in opinion are great. I am against the Office of the High Representative (in charge of overseeing the implementation of the Dayton Peace Agreement which ended the war in Bosnia) imposing any solutions,” Ivanic said. “I am very concerned, and I said this during the meeting. Other two Presidency members said that I am perhaps worrying too much, but all my earlier estimates proved correct. I think we are entering a serious crisis and Germany is aware of this. Merkel didn’t invite us there to make us do our job, she asked us how she could help. She didn’t threaten anyone.”