Russia said on Tuesday it has suspended its financing of the Office of the High Representative to Bosnia, a body set up to help the war-ravaged Balkan country establish political stability, because Moscow regards the current envoy to be illegally appointed.
The Office of the High Representative (OHR) was established as part of the Dayton peace accords that ended Bosnia's 1992-95 war. OHR's role was to oversee reconstruction and peace implementation in a country torn apart by the ethnic conflict in which 100,000 died.
Besides OHR, the Peace Implementation Council (PIC) was created as an informal body gathering all international participants involved in Bosnia's peace implementation. Russia and other big powers and international institutions are members of the PIC Steering Board, which meets bi-annually to assess the progress in the Balkan country.
