Bosnia envoy revokes Bosnian Serb laws defying the state, peace deal


Christian Schmidt, the High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina speaks during a news conference in Sarajevo speaks during a news conference in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina March 10, 2022. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic

SARAJEVO (Reuters) - Bosnia's international peace overseer, Christian Schmidt, on Saturday annulled two laws that Bosnian Serb parliament had adopted defying the constitution and the terms of a peace deal that ended the Balkan country's war in the 1990s.

Schmidt, who as international High Representative in Bosnia has powers to impose laws and sack obstructive officials, also amended a law so that those seen as attacking the state institutions can be criminally prosecuted.

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