Kraske: Čović is an extremist leader and should be under sanctions

Marion Kraske, an expert on the Balkans region and former director of the Heinrich-Bö;ll-Stiftung Foundation in Sarajevo, reacted on her Twitter profile to the US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken's tweet about imposing sanctions on individuals in BiH, expressing astonishment and regret that the US administration did not impose sanctions on HDZ BiH president Dragan Čović, whom she called an extremist leader.

In another tweet she commented on Željana Zovko, a member of the European Parliament, who was a guest in a show on RTV Herceg-Bosna, saying she supported ‘Tudjman's ideas of a Greater-Croatia’, urging the EPP and the European Commission to stop such ‘destabilizing policies’.

The US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken reported via Twitter that the State Department and the US Treasury Department had publicly declared Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) officials corrupt and destabilizing. The sanctions were imposed on BiH Presidency member Milorad Dodik, his advisor and former HJPC President Milan Tegeltija and his wife Tijana, PDA President Mirsad Kukić and Banja Luka's Alternative Television.