A two-day session of the Peace Implementation Council (PIC) begins today in Sarajevo with the aim of electing a new high representative in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
At least three candidates for the High Representative should be considered at the two-day PIC meeting.
One of the candidates is American politician and Trump administration official William Ruger. The other two candidates are diplomats. We are talking about the candidate who came at the suggestion of France, Rene Troccazo, and the Italian candidate Antonio Zanardi Landi, who basically has the support of the USA.
We remind you that Christian Schmidt resigned from the position of High Representative a month ago and then announced that he would remain in this position until the election of a new High Representative.
In order for one of the proposed candidates to be elected as the new high representative, it is necessary to receive the broad support of the PIC member states, and a consensus among the members of the PIC Board of Directors is not necessary.
The process usually goes as follows: Information about the candidate is submitted to the member countries of the PIC Board of Directors, then at the meeting of the Board of Directors it is considered who would be adequate.
The members make a decision or postpone making a decision about a candidate depending on the views of each of the PIC members, and the process of consideration and decision is repeated until one of the candidates is elected.
It may also happen that the new high representative is not elected and that a few more weeks are requested for reconciliation, given the differences in the selection of candidates among PIC members, he writes. Klix.
