{"id":42128,"date":"2021-11-10T06:28:14","date_gmt":"2021-11-10T14:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=42128"},"modified":"2021-11-10T09:28:39","modified_gmt":"2021-11-10T17:28:39","slug":"counselor-chollets-travel-to-bosnia-and-herzegovina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=42128","title":{"rendered":"Counselor Chollet\u2019s Travel to Bosnia and Herzegovina"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><\/div>\n<div>11\/10\/2021 08:38 AM EST<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Office of the Spokesperson<\/p>\n<p>Counselor of the U.S. Department of State Derek\u202fChollet will travel to\u202fBosnia and Herzegovina\u00a0(BiH), November 15-17,\u202fto\u202f\u200breaffirm\u202fU.S. support\u202ffor BiH\u2019s sovereignty\u202fand territorial\u202fintegrity and\u202furge the country\u2019s leaders to engage in constructive dialogue.\u202f While\u202fin\u00a0Sarajevo,\u202fCounselor Chollet will meet with senior government officials to underscore\u00a0that functional,\u00a0democratic\u00a0<wbr><\/wbr>institutions\u00a0at all levels of government are essential to a better future for\u00a0all citizens,\u00a0in\u00a0both the\u00a0Federation\u00a0of BiH and the Republika Srpska (RS), as well as in\u00a0Brcko District.\u00a0\u00a0He will deliver a firm message that any attempts\u00a0to undo 26 years of peace and progress,\u00a0through withdrawal from state-level institutions,\u00a0could violate the Dayton Peace Agreement, create hardship for citizens,\u00a0and be a major disincentive for investors\u00a0and source of serious concern for the international community. The Counselor will also meet with\u00a0High Representative\u00a0Christian Schmidt, expressing the U.S. government\u2019s strong support for his mandate, including the need for vital economic, electoral,\u00a0and anti-corruption reforms. In addition, he will\u00a0meet with members of the media and\u00a0civil society.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>11\/10\/2021 08:38 AM EST &nbsp; Office&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42128"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42129,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42128\/revisions\/42129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}