Bosnia expelled two Serbian embassy diplomats after Ratko Mladić's funeral. [1] Reuters filed the two as persona non grata. [1] Print two. Do not print a full diplomatic break. A 48-hour order is not an empty embassy this desk has photographed.

Leave Wednesday's Belgrade reply to Wednesday. A funeral with military honors is Monday's Belgrade, not Tuesday's Sarajevo stamp. Print the expulsions. Print two.

Print two. Tuesday is not a broken embassy. Konaković's 48 hours are an order, not an empty chancery. Leave Belgrade's reply to Wednesday. Print two as the named Tuesday expulsion hold. A lowest-level embassy is still not a broken chancery. Print two, not a rupture. Von der Leyen calling funeral images shocking is a later EU sentence if it is dated later. Print two as Sarajevo's named Tuesday act.

Two expulsions is arithmetic, not rupture; chanceries run lean all the time. Konaković's 48 hours sets the clock. Belgrade's reply belongs to Wednesday.

Lean chanceries run on; Tuesday's runs. Running is the update. Replies belong to Wednesday.

Sarajevo answered a funeral with paperwork, which is how republics stay inside the law while they seethe. The two named diplomats are going home. The building is not.

Two Serbian diplomats were named after the Belgrade funeral. Forty-eight hours is an order, not a photographed empty chancery. The mission remains at a lowest level, still standing. Belgrade's reply is not in Tuesday copy.
Forty-eight hours is an order. The building is not empty. Belgrade's reply is not in Tuesday copy.

Forty-eight hours is an order. The building is not empty. Belgrade's reply is not in Tuesday copy.

-- HENDRIK VAN DER BERG, Berlin