Bosnia’s defense minister on Wednesday blocked Hungary’s foreign minister from flying in on a military aircraft and landing in Banja Luka, the administrative center of Bosnia’s Serb entity.
Minister Zukan Helez wrote on Facebook that Hungary had provided no clear explanation for Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto's planned arrival in a military aircraft.
Helez added that Szijjarto and Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban had both supported ousted Bosnian-Serb leader Milorad Dodik "in actions that undermine the sovereignty, territorial integrity and cohesion of Bosnia and Herzegovina."
Dodik was ejected from office in August following his conviction for ignoring rulings by the international envoy who oversees Bosnia's peace deal, which has held the country together since the end of its 1990s inter-ethnic war.
The conflict killed more than 100,000 people and left the country split into two semi-autonomous halves – the Serb-run Republika Srpska and a Bosniak-Croat federation – linked by weak central institutions.
