Ethnically divided Bosnia is facing its most serious crisis since it was established as a state 15 years ago, its international envoy warned on Monday, accusing Serb officials of threatening its viability. Bosnia in the 1990s suffered Europe's worst conflict since World War Two. The country remains divided between former wartime adversaries living in two autonomous regions - a separatist Serb Republic and a Muslim-Croat federation.
That situation resulted from the 1995 Dayton peace accord that ended the Bosnian war. Rivalry between the two regions has blocked reforms and progress towards European integration. In a regular report to the UN Security Council, Austrian diplomat Valentin Inzko accused Serb authorities of "concrete actions which represent the most serious violation of (Dayton) that we have seen since the agreement was signed." The divided Security Council took no immediate action on Inzko's report.