Dimitry Polyanskiy, the First Deputy Permanent Representative of Russia at the UN, criticised the international community High Representative's regular six-month report on the status of peace implementation in Bosnia harshly, saying it was written with preconceptions and that it only superficially mentions the largest violations of equality of peoples in the country.

In his opinion, the time of protectionism over Bosnia is history and the High Representative, whose mandate is to oversee the civilian implementation of the Dayton Peace Agreement with his Bonn powers, has become a burden for Bosnia's further democratic process.

Polyanskiy said during the UN Security Council's session which discussed the High Representative Valentin Inzko's report that his interest in Bosnia's European and transatlantic integrations was not in line with his mandate.

He noted that equality in the country, which is guaranteed by the Dayton Peace Agreement that ended the war 1992-1995, has been threatened lately and that Inzko refuses to acknowledge it, or that he only mentioned the largest violations only superficially and without any criticism.

The Russian diplomat exemplified this with the “Bosniak idea of challenging the name of Bosnia's Serb-dominated Republika Srpska (RS) entity before the Constitutional Court, which is guaranteed by the Dayton Peace Agreement, which contains Bosnia's constitution in its Annex 4.”

Another example was “the unwillingness of Bosniaks to discuss changes to the State Election Law with the Bosnian Croats.”

He also noted that the UN Security Council members received Inzko's report only several days before the discussion, adding that they needed more time to analyse the document thoroughly.

Valentin Inzko, presented his regular six-month report to the UN Security Council on Wednesday.