UK Parliament unanimously agrees motion to express support for peace in Bosnia

(Patria) - On Thursday, following a debate on preserving peace in Bosnia organised by Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Bosnia and Herzegovina Alicia Kearns MP, the House of Commons unanimously decided to support the Dayton Agreement, the High Representative to Bosnia and Herzegovina, w

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Vucic's military exercise - demonstration of power or act of regional peacemaking?

By: Amina Corbo Zeco The member of BiH presidency Milorad Dodik has stated that the military exercise of the Serbian Army was 'encouraging' as it showed that Serbia would be able to defend its statehood and sovereignty with success. Following the exercise held at the Pester polygon, Dodik congratu

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An infected bullet from the Igman party is flying across BiH

By: Amina Corbo Zeco Rapid spreading of corona virus following the anniversary party of the Igman company in Konjic was not intentional, it clearly happened out of neglect. Let me quote Gabriel Garcia Marquez from Love in the time of cholera: 'Wisdom comes to us when it can no longer do any good'.

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Covic shows disrespect for BiH by holding his meetings on the state holiday – Independence Day

By: Amina Corbo Zeco The participants of the recent meeting organized by Milorad Dodik received a letter signed by the EU ambassador in BiH Johann Sattler, the OSCE Head of Mission in BiH ambassador Kathleen Kavalec and Deputy Chief of mission at the US Embassy in Sarajevo Ellen Germain. The lette

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Demographic quakes in Bosnia and Herzegovina

By: Academic Esad Durakovic I have written (critically) on several occasions about mass sale of BH most quality land, the land we walk on (literally), to the foreigners. When doing so, each time I emphasized, as I do now, that I write about that negative phenomenon from the standpoint of interests

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Between fake diplomas and fake people: We don't want any migrants

By: Sead Omeragic While the number of migrants in the Bosniak populated part of the country keeps growing, the Bosniak politicians keep silent like a fish. They don't even shy away from firing critiques at Dodik and Covic who have been persecuting migrants in a most brutal and racist manner, beatin

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Peace Implementation Council warns RS of wrongly interpreting the Constitution

(Patria) - The Ambassadors of the Peace Implementation Council Steering Board (PIC SBA) rejected the adoption of Conclusions of November 11, 2019, by the ruling coalition in the Republika Srpska (RS) entity's National Assembly as based on an erroneous interpretation of the Dayton Peace Agreement (DP

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Pogosta vprašanja - Google For Nonprofits

Nekaj pogostih vprašanj na temo Google for nonprofits (prevod v slovenščini še sledi)!Naslov strani: https://www.techsoup.si/ Google for nonprofits | Frequently Asked Questions for NGOsWhat is Google for nonprofits?Google for nonprofits https://www.google.com/nonprofits/account/signup/si offers qual

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SDA attacks their political competitors

There are no indications when the Federation will establish a new government. Electoral winners in the Federation, SDA and HDZ last October won 43 representative seats (out of 98) at the House of Representatives of the Federal Parliament. 50 representatives are required to form a majority at the Pa

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BiH 2018 government formation: A "conclave" for Bosnia and Herzegovina

(Patria) - The International Institute for Middle-East and Balkan Studies (IFIMES) in Ljubljana, Slovenia, regularly analyses events in the Middle East and the Balkans. Following the eighth general election in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) which was held on 7 October 2018, IFIMES has analysed the cur

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Sabor's Declaration: A reprise of war aims against BiH

By: Sead Omeragic The debate about Declaration by Sabor of Croatia about the position of Croats in BiH has turned into river of most incredible lies about 'endangerment'. Miro Kovac, the former chief of Franjo Tudjman's office was the loudest one: 'Declaration about the status of Croats in BiH doe

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Bleak See on the Black Sea

By Anis H. Bajrektarevic / Moderndiplomacy.eu Following the latest events in and around the Black Sea, two old questions are reappearing. Both are inviting us for a repeated elaboration: If a Monroe doctrine (about the hemispheric security exclusivity) is recognised at one corner of the globe, do

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Is BiH still an occupied country?

By: Armin Aljovic The story of the latest war of aggression against Bosnia and Herzegovina is a well known historical fact: Milosevic's Yugoslav National Army (JNA) from Serbia backed by Mladic's and Karadzic's armies from BiH, in the beginning of the nineties attacked the internationally recognize

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Beginning of the end of Milorad Dodik, or beginning of the end of Bosnia and Herzegovina

By: Armin Aljovic Faced with heavy accusations for crime, numerous unsolved murders, poor economy in the part of Bosnia and Herzegovina that he has ruled for longer than 10 years, as well as isolation by the United States of America, the former president of the Republika Srpska, the current member

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Puhalo: Dodik does want a deal but on his terms

Following the inauguration of new BiH Presidency members, the analysts forecast 4 years of political stalling and filibustering. They predict Dodik's continued attempts to impose his own policy that is according to the analysts 'anti-Constitution and anti-Dayton', which will be facing resistance, pr

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Has Covic fulfilled conditions for the black list?

By: Armin Aljovic In January 2017, the president of BH entity Republika Srpska was sanctioned by the United States of America for 'obstructing the Dayton Peace Accord and posing a threat to the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Bosnia and Herzegovina'. The US Ambassador to BiH, Maureen Corm

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Religion and politics: Mutual need

By: Prof Dr Esad Durakovic Last Spring I wrote for one digital media about politicization of religion and sacralization of politics. An eternal topic, sometimes more and sometimes less current, and in our BH context, especially over the past quarter of the century, dramatically actualized due to th

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IPCC Report: Demise of the ‘Here-Us-Now’ Civilisation

by Prof. Anis H. Bajrektarevic, Geopoliticalmonitor The major new report from the United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), released in Korea on October 8 (2018), is nearly 800 pages long and includes more than 6,000 scientific references. However, it can be summarized in ju

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The culprit of Covic's electoral loss

By: Haris Ljevo Dragan Covic has suffered a considerable loss in the race for the Croat member’s seat in the Presidency BiH. He lost to Zeljko Komsic who got the confidence vote by the citizens to re-enter the presidency for the third time. Following the final electoral result, Dragan Covic and th

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Bakir's battery operated terrorism

By: Amina CORBO - ZECO Although labeled 'Fethullah's terrorist organization' by the Turkish government, the FETO movement is not on any list of terrorist organizations in BiH. However, this fact has not prevented the SDA's president Bakir Izetbegovic and some local media to openly refer to this mov

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Migrant tragedy and political strategy

By: Sead OMERAGIC When Slobodan Ujic, the Director of the Service for Foreigners Affairs says: 'We have to close the border with our eastern neighbors – Serbia and Montenegro', we can't help but wonder if it was a slip of the tongue or he slipped and revealed too much? The question is if our secur

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Lipovaca: Prosecutors and ordering parties should cover the costs of show trials and arrests

What is the purpose of spectacular action movie like arrests of people filmed by media when they are at home with their families? Who is authorized to determine the level of risk or threat of the persons who are arrested in that way? BH citizens get to watch on TV expensive and spectacular actions,

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Niksic to Covic: Civil state that EU want is not the problem, the racist state that you want is

The president of SDB BiH Nermin Niksic sent an open letter to the president of HDZ BiH Dragan Covic, following Covic's statement in Zagreb that BiH as a civil state would in practice mean an Islamic state. - I respect those who want a civil state. Only, as far as today's BiH is concerned, a civil s

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Svetlana Cenic: #Ready for caliphate

The recent statement by HDZ BiH leader and the member of the Presidency BiH Dragan Covic that BiH as a civil state would essentially mean an Islamic state, caused strong reactions by BH public. - I respect those who want a civil state. However, in today's BiH, a civil state would mean a classic uni

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HDZ 1990 to Covic: We don't want mobilization, we want to live in diversity

The board of HDZ 1990 of the Central Bosnia Canton issued a press release in which they reject the appeal of the Croat member of the Presidency BiH and HDZ BiH leader Dragan Covic to 'mobilization of the Croat people'. - Mr. Covic, following the local elections where we jointly appeared for sake of

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He marched to Sarajevo and ended up in The Hague

By: Sead OMERAGIC The grave of the famous philosopher Baruch de Spinoza is in The Hague. In her memoirs, Carla del Ponte describes Spinoza as a philosopher who 'identified the power which moves those enormous crimes: religiosity, envy, stereotypes and prejudice which men with power use to manipulat

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Croatian president in BiH: Lots of nice words, let's wait for a follow-up

By: Haris Ljevo Croatian president Kolinda Grabar Kitarovic is in the middle of her two-day official visit to BiH. Following a reception and a meeting with BiH Presidency members, a media conference was held with the president and the chairman of BiH Presidency Dragan Covic. The Croatian president

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Minister Campara can't stay after the protests

By: Armin Aljovic In Federation BiH, the government has managed to turn even the police against itself, which is a rare example in the whole of Europe. Police is one of the indicators of the rule of law. A state can be structured in many ways, but every state has the same responsibility – to prote

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Dodik and Covic together against the NATO

The President of the Republika Srpska, Milorad Dodik, is the politician who should always be read between the lines. Earlier today he stated that the Republika Srpska would cease the activities relating to the implementation of the MAP (The Membership Action Plan for accession to the NATO) for BiH.

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Metropolitan Mihailo: It is a sin before God and people not to bow down before Srebrenica victims

The Archbishop of Cetinje and Metropolitan of Montenegro is among the best educated clergymen in the Balkans. He graduated from the Theological faculty in Belgrade and earned his master’s degree at the Spiritual Academy of the Russian Orthodox Church in Russia. He is one of the postgraduates of SANU

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