The talks focused on Bosnia-Herzegovina's capacity to function without the day-to-day support of the Office of the High Representative (OHR) given the fact that the Peace Implementation Council decided last year that the OHR should be closed at the end of June this year.
The decision to close the OHR has caused a division of opinion in the past months: Bosnian Serb political leaders support the decision, while politicians in the Bosnian Muslim-Croat Federation want it to stay, arguing that the OHR's presence might be necessary after a forthcoming decision on the final status of Kosovo as it might affect the situation in Bosnia-Herzegovina.
Earlier this week, Schwarz-Schilling said for the first time that last year's independence referendum in Montenegro and a forthcoming decision on Kosovo's status would have repercussions on Bosnia-Herzegovina.
The Peace Implementation Council has announced that at its meeting scheduled for February 26 and 27 in Brussels it will review its decision to close the OHR at the end of June 2007.
Schwarz-Schilling's visit to Germany was a part of his international tour that also includes Paris, Brussels, Rome, London, Moscow and the United States.