Bosnia's new presidency sworn in, rivalry looms


  • World
  • Tuesday, 20 Nov 2018

Newly elected member of Bosnia's tripartite inter-ethnic presidency, Serb member Milorad Dodik, holds the certificate of presidency during the presidential inauguration ceremony in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina November 20, 2018. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic

SARAJEVO (Reuters) - A pro-Russian Serb nationalist who wants the Bosnian army dismantled and pro-NATO Croat and Bosniak supporters of a multi-ethnic Bosnia were sworn in on Tuesday as new members of the state presidency, with rivalry looming among them.

Their different views of Bosnia's place in the world seem certain to block decision-making in the state body which is responsible for drawing up and conducting foreign policy under peace accords that ended the Bosnian war in the 1990s.

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