CARDIN STATEMENT ON FUTURE OF NATO IN THE BALKANS
WASHINGTON-U.S. Senator Benjamin L. Cardin (D-MD), Chairman of the
Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (U.S. Helsinki Commission) and a member
of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee (SFRC) today said the prospect of expanding NATO
to include Bosnia-Herzegovina should motivate the country to make constitutional and
political reforms needed to fit into the alliance. "As a member and now chairman of
the Helsinki Commission, I have watched the Balkans go...
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STOP SERBS
FROM BREAKING UP BOSNIA!
Thomas Brey, DPA, Bosnian Institute
13 October, 2009.
In an interview with the German press agency, Stjepan Mesic calls upon
Serbia to cease nurturing secessionist ambitions among the Bosnian Serbs, Serbs must not
be allowed to break Bosnia apart, Croatian president Stjepan Mesic said in an interview
with the German press agency DPA in Zagreb on Monday 12 October, referring to the
country's current political crisis. 'Bosnia must survive, and all politicians who do not
want that must step down...
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BOSNIA: WEIGHING THE OPTIONS
Marko Attila Hoare
13 October, 2009
As Bosnian leaders meet to discuss constitutional changes under US
and EU tutelage on a military base near Sarajevo, this analysis examines the real options
facing the country
These days, even the most ardent Bosnian patriot or foreign friend of
Bosnia-Hercegovina finds it difficult to be optimistic about the country's future. In its
current constitutional form, Bosnia is a state that does not and cannot work. No
conceivable solution appears very good, while...
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ASSURING
PEACE AND A EUROPEAN FUTURE IN BOSNIA AND HERCEGOVINA
Paddy Ashdown, Wolfgang Petritsch and Christian Schwarz-Schilling
Berlin/London/Paris, 18 October 2009.
We welcome that the European Union and the wider international
community are again paying serious attention to Bosnia and Herzegovina. The ad hoc talks
at Butmir that will be continued this week evoke both our concerns and hopes. On the one
hand, they present a real possibility to address the current political stalemate in the...
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