(ANSA) - SARAJEVO, JUN 4 - Black smoke in Sarajevo. German Christian Smith's successor as the new High Representative of the International Community (Ohr), tasked with enforcing the Dayton Peace that ended the civil war in Bosnia in 1995, was not appointed at today's meeting of the Steering Committee of the Peace Implementation Council (PIC) because of the clash between groups of countries. Thus, the election of former Italian diplomat Antonio Zanardi Landi, who was strongly proposed by the United States with the support of Japan and Turkey, and to whom the leading European countries pitted French diplomat René Troccaz, is no longer so certain. After several hours of tight negotiations, the session was suspended and the appointment of the Ohr holder could slip to the end of the month, with prolonged negotiations. The Americans, according to sources heard by ANSA in Sarajevo, insisted that Zanardi Landi be appointed today. Tight negotiations had been going on since this morning at the Ohr headquarters in the Bosnian capital. Journalists are not allowed into the Ohr headquarters but are thronged outside. The United States and Europe now have divergent strategies on the Balkans. In fact, the Trump Administration have made it clear in a specific State Department document submitted to the U.S. Congress that they prefer the stability of the Balkan countries as economic partners to the old strategy of post-conflict reconstruction and state-building, which Washington considers outdated. (ANSA).