(ANSA-AFP) - SARAJEVO, MAR 8 - The EU said Friday it would
send reinforcements for its peacekeeping mission in deeply
divided Bosnia after the nation's top court suspended separatist
laws adopted by its Serb statelet. Bosnia's Constitutional Court
on Friday suspended legislation proposed by Serb leader Milorad
Dodik that rejected the authority of the federal police and
judiciary within the country's Serb entity, the Republika Srpska
(RS). Since the end of Bosnia's inter-ethnic war in the 1990s,
the country has consisted of two autonomous halves -- the
Serb-dominated RS and a Muslim-Croat statelet -- which each have
their own government and parliament, and are linked by weak
central institutions. A week after Dodik was convicted for
defying an international envoy charged with overseeing Bosnia's
peace accords, the court's temporary suspension of the
separatist laws on Friday has cast further uncertainty on the
nation's divided politics and its fragile, post-war
institutions. The European Union Force (EUFOR) announced Friday
that it will "temporarily increase" the size of its peacekeeping
mission in the country. (ANSA-AFP).
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