Angesichts der Tatsache, dass wir in einer möglichen föderalen Lösung keinen hohen Vertreter haben würden, der ein unabhängiger Vorgesetzter für die Funktionsweise des Staates wäre, wie dies in Bosnien und Herzegowina der Fall ist, halten Sie dieses Modell als ähnlich wie bei einer bizonalen Bicommunal -Föderation?
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It depends on what we mean by „BBF“. If we go only by what is demanded in UN resolutions, then a BBF could work.
However terms such as those in the Annan plan and what was negotiated in 2017 (which is essentially the same as the Annan plan with mostly cosmetic tweaks), would create a dysfunctional arrangement which would be as bad, or even worst, than what they have in Bosnia.
In Bosnia they have the „high representative“ which is an unelected foreigner who is above the local presidents.
In Cyprus we would not have such a person but every decision would require concurrence from both sides which will lead to constant deadlocks and the central government would be totally dysfunctional. Supposedly there would be some „deadlock resolving mechanism“, but that „mechanism“ would be just another committee where concurrence from both sides would be required, so the „deadlock resolving mechanism“ would also deadlock.
Here is what BBC says about Bosnia ( [https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-17211937](https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-17211937) ):
>The 1995 Dayton peace agreement brought to an end the bloodshed of the 1992-1995 war but **entrenched the results of „ethnic cleansing“, cementing the divide in the country.**
Some think that a BBF in Cyprus will end the division, when in reality it will legalize our ethnic cleansing from the north and create a region in Cyprus which is officially Turkish.
>Critics of Dayton said the entities it created were too close to being states in their own right and that **the arrangement reinforced separatism and nationalism at the expense of integration.**
This would be true for Cyprus also with a BBF like the Annan plan.
>Negotiations to amend the existing constitution, established by Dayton in order to strengthen state institutions and transform the country into a non-ethnic parliamentary democracy, have so far failed to make much progress.
Some think that we can accept something bad and it will be improved with time. This would certainly not be the case. The Dayton agreement for Bosnia was 30 years ago and nothing changed since.
And in the case of Cyprus we also have the issue of the Settlers, and since no proper solution for them is agreed (on the contrary Turkey demands free movement for all its 80 million citizens in Cyprus), there is a high risk that with such agreement we would be turned into a minority within some decades.