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The international community’s chief representative in Bosnia has warned

that the country is in imminent danger of breaking apart, and there is a “very
real” prospect of a return to conflict.

In a report to the UN seen by the Guardian, Christian Schmidt, the high

representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina, said that if Serb separatists carry
out their threat to recreate their own army, splitting the national armed
forces in two, more international peacekeepers would have to be sent back in
to stop the slide towards a new war.

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