German Ex-Minister Appointed New Bosnia Envoy
December 14, 2005
14 December 2005 -- Former German cabinet minister Christian Schwarz-Schilling has been appointed as the international community's new high representative in Bosnia.
Following a meeting in Paris of the international council overseeing the peace process in Bosnia, the French Foreign Ministry said Schwarz-Schilling is to take up his new functions "in a few weeks."
He will succeed Britain's Paddy Ashdown.
Schwarz-Schilling has been acting as an international mediator in the Balkans since 1995.
(AFP/Reuters)