Bosnia, Revisited: Turkey’s Gains, Challenges and Future Aspirations

balkan analysis
July 12, 2011
By Maja Šoštarić in Sarajevo*
“Sarajevo is a miracle (…). If you understand Sarajevo, you can understand all the Ottoman history. Because it is, according to the saying, [true that] if you understand a person you can understand that century.”
Is this a new slogan of the Bosnian chamber of commerce? Or was it perhaps taken out of some Sarajevo guidebook? Not quite. The author is Ahmet Davutoğlu, Foreign Minister of Turkey, and the paragraph stems from his speech at the opening ceremony of a conference entitled “The Ottoman Legacy and Balkan Muslim Communities Today,” held in Sarajevo in October 2009. After that conference, Mr Davutoğlu was harshly criticized by detractors for his alleged neo-Ottomanism in relation to the Balkans....more....
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http://www.balkanalysis.com/turkey/2011/07/12/bosnia-revisited-turkey%E2%80%99s-gains-challenges-and-future-aspirations/

The Silent Passing of Europe’s Proconsulship in Bosnia

balkan insight
15 JUN 2011 / 11:05

Valentin Inzko deserves praise for abandoning the so-called ‘Bonn powers’ whose arbitrary use reflected a failed, neo-colonial, approach to state building.

Matthew Parish
Last Friday, June 10, Bosnia’s High Representative, Valentin Inzko, lifted the suspensions from public office of virtually all the remaining officials subject to his predecessors’ bans. ....more...
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http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/article/the-silent-passing-of-europe-s-proconsulship-in-bosnia

Inzko says replacement of Milorad Dodik possible

tportal.hr
BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA
12.05.2011 10:30

Author: Radio.net

The international community's High Representative in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Valentin Inzko, has said that the President of the Serb entity of Republika Srpska (RS), Milorad Dodik, could be replaced over his actions that jeopardise the implementation of the Dayton peace agreement which put an end to the war in the country in 1995....more...

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http://daily.tportal.hr/127393/Inzko-says-replacement-of-Milorad-Dodik-possible.html

Tension Grows Ahead of Bosnia Referendum Ruling

balkan insight
12 May 2011 / 09:09
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Anticipation grows over whether EU envoy will finally veto the planned Bosnian Serb referendum, challenging major state institutions.
Eldin Hadzovic

Sarajevo
Tension is growing in Bosnia over whether High Representative Valentin Inzko will use his powers to ban an upcoming popular vote in the Bosnian Serb entity, Republika Srpska....more...

http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/article/dodik-s-and-inzko-s-credibility-on-probe

President disagrees with Bosnia intl. rep

b92.net
Politics

Wednesday 11.05.2011
15:56
Source: Tanjug

BELGRADE -- President Boris Tadić said Wednesday that he is willing to meet with high international representative in Bosnia-Herzegovina Valentin Inzko....more...
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http://www.b92.net/eng/news/politics-article.php?yyyy=2011&mm=05&dd=11&nav_id=74284

"Bosnia in worst crisis since war"

b92.net
Region

Wednesday 11.05.2011
10:35
Source: Tanjug

NEW YORK -- High representative Valentin Inzko has said in Washington that Bosnia is undergoing the worst crisis since the end of the war in 1995....more...
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http://www.b92.net/eng/news/region-article.php?yyyy=2011&mm=05&dd=11&nav_id=74271

UN envoy Inzko calls planned Bosnian Serb referendum a 'catastrophe'

deutsche welle
Politics
12.05.2011

Ethnically divided Bosnia faces its most serious crisis since its establishment, the UN's High Representative has warned. The regional Serb parliament is planning a referendum on the legality of Bosnia's national court.

Bosnia is divided between former wartime adversaries living in two autonomous regions - a separatist Serb Republic and a Muslim-Croat federation.
It is still without a government seven months after the last elections, and political leaders in the Serb Republic continue to advocate dissolving the country. In the latest challenge to central authority in Bosnia, the regional Serb parliament has backed plans for a referendum in June on the legality of Bosnia's national court, which prosecutes war crimes suspects.
The international High Representative for the Balkan state, Valentin Inzko, regards the planned vote as a blatant attack on the Dayton Peace Agreement and has threatened to cancel the referendum. Deutsche Welle's Christina Bergmann met Inzko in Washington. ....more...
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http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,15069266,00.html

RS negotiating with Brussels

blic online

Interview with Milorad Dodik

NEDELJKA BREBERINA ANĐELKO KOZOMARA

12. 05. 2011. - 00:02h
Foto: S. Pašalić
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The Republic of Srpska is impatiently waiting for tomorrow’s decision by the High Representative Valentin Incko about the referendum in the RS. In the interview with ‘Blic’, the RS President Milorad Dodik says that ‘the RS has elaborated strategy whatever move Incko may make’....more...

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http://english.blic.rs/News/7634/RS-negotiating-with-Brussels

Inzko: BiH facing most serious post-Dayton crisis

se times
10/05/2011

High Representative Valentin Inzko expressed deep concern to the UN Security Council on Monday.
(RFE/RL, Blic - 10/05/11; UN News Centre, UN Security Council, Office of the High Representative, Beta, B92, Emportal, RFE/RL, VOA, Al Jazeera - 09/05/11)
The rising political tension in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) over the past five years has pushed the country into its worst crisis since the Dayton Peace Agreement, High Representative Valentin Inzko told the UN Security Council on Monday (May 9th). ...more...
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http://www.setimes.com/cocoon/setimes/xhtml/en_GB/features/setimes/features/2011/05/10/feature-01

High Representative Says Bosnia Facing Worst Crisis Since Dayton Accords

radio free europe
Last updated (GMT/UTC): 10.05.2011 08:00

By Nikola Krastev
UNITED NATIONS -- In a scathing report presented to the UN's highest executive organ, the international community's high representative for Bosnia-Herzegovina painted a bleak picture of a country that 16 years after the end of a devastating war is again finding itself on the brink of collapse.
Valentin Inzko told the 15-member Security Council that Bosnia has experienced months of paralysis in its state institutions. What's more, he said, there is no prospect for forming a new government and the economy is on a downward spiral.
"More than seven months after the general elections, there is still no prospect of a new state government being formed and many state institutions are under serious political, institutional, and economic pressure with a clear impact on their efficiency and functionality," he said. "The European Union and the Euro-Atlantic integration processes have come to a complete halt and the economy continues to suffer."
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http://www.rferl.org/content/bosnia_herzegovina_eu_high_represenative_valentin_inzko/24096454.html

Inzko Confers With US Officials on Action in Bosnia

balkan insight
10 May 2011 / 11:06

After describing violations of Bosnia's Dayton Peace Agreement to UN members, the top international envoy to Bosnia is set to meet US officials to gain support for further action.
Eldin Hadzovic

Sarajevo
Speaking before the UN Security Council on Monday, Valentin Inzko, the international High Representative for Bosnia, said that Bosnian Serb officials were violating the peace accord with a referendum plan and warned that the country is facing its worst crisis since the 1992-95 war....more...

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Without sanctions for RS, Dodik ready to ease tension

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SC about crisis in BiH

Tamara Spaić

10. 05. 2011. - 00:02h
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BELGRADE - ‘There is no chance that the UN Security Council enforces sanctions against the Republic of Srpska and its President Milorad Dodik. Firstly, Russia would not allow it and China probably as well’, Fedja Starcevic, Serbia Ambassador to the UN told ‘Blic’ shortly ahead of the beginning of the UN SC session which dealt with the crisis in Bosnia/Herzegovina because of the announced referendum. Almost all agree that this crisis is the biggest since constituting of the ‘Dayton’ Bosnia/Herzegovina....more...

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http://english.blic.rs/News/7624/Without-sanctions-for-RS-Dodik-ready-to-ease-tension

Inzko to RS leadership: One week to cancel referendum

b92.net
Region

Sunday 8.05.2011
17:01
Source: Tanjug

SARAJEVO -- High Representative for Bosnia-Herzegovina Valentin Inzko has repeated that he has given a week to the Republic of Srpska (RS) leadership to cancel referendum. ...more...
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http://www.b92.net/eng/news/region-article.php?yyyy=2011&mm=05&dd=08&nav_id=74224

Bosnia Envoy Hesitates to Ban Serb Vote

balkan insight
09 May 2011 / 09:08

International envoy gives Bosnian Serbs ‘last chance’ to abandon referendum on state court and prosecutor
Eldin Hadzovic
Sarajevo
Europe’s top envoy to Bosnia, Valentin Inzko, backed away from using his international powers to ban a referendum in the Bosnian Serb entity, last week, giving Bosnian Serbs a few extra days to abandon the idea or face unnamed sanctions. ...more...

http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/article/bosnia-envoy-hesitates-to-ban-serb-vote

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Interview: Bosnia's High Representative Singles Out Serbian Entity

radio free europe
May 09, 2011


NEW YORK -- The secessionist tendencies of the leadership of Republika Srpska, one of Bosnia-Herzegovina's two entities, are destabilizing the overall situation in the country and paralyzing the functioning of its state institutions.
That's according to the international community's high representative for Bosnia, Austrian diplomat Valentin Inzko, who's due to present his fifth report to the UN Security Council on May 9.
The recent decision by the president of Republika Srpska, Milorad Dodik, to call a referendum on the competencies of Bosnia's judicial institutions has been criticized by the European Union and prompted Inzko to demand the referendum be scrapped. He spoke with RFE/RL correspondent Nikola Krastev....more...
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http://www.rferl.org/content/interview_bosnia_high_representative_singles_out_republika_srpska/24095754.html

“Russia won’t support Inzko’s report”

b92.net
Region

Saturday 7.05.2011
15:32
Source: Tanjug

BANJA LUKA -- Russian Ambassador to Bosnia-Herzegovina Alexandr Botsan-Kharchenko said Friday that Russia would not support special report on the Republic of Srpska (RS).
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http://www.b92.net/eng/news/region-article.php?yyyy=2011&mm=05&dd=07&nav_id=74207

Inzko 'Postpones' Decision on Bosnian Serb Referendum

balkan insight
05 May 2011 / 16:10

Bosnia's high representative has postponed a decision to annul a Serb referendum that challenges the state court and prosecutor, Balkan Insight has learned.
Eldin Hadzovic

Sarajevo
Bosnia's top international figure, High Representative Valentin Inzko, will not deliver a decision on the controversial referendum until next week, a source within the Peace Implementation Council, the body charged with supervising Bosnia's 1995 Dayton peace deal, told Balkan Insight on condition of anonymity....more...

http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/article/inzko-to-dismiss-the-decision-of-the-rs-national-assemblyread more: balkan insight

Inzko and Dodik fail to reach agreement on Serb referendum

tportal.hr
BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA
04.05.2011 22:22

Author: Radio.net

The international High Representative to Bosnia and Herzegovina, Valentin Inzko, said on Wednesday he had failed to reach agreement with Bosnian Serb President Milorad Dodik on a referendum planned by the Bosnian Serb authorities....more...

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http://daily.tportal.hr/126079/Inzko-and-Dodik-fail-to-reach-agreement-on-Serb-referendum.html

RS officials could leave institutions over referendum

b92.net
Region

Wednesday 4.05.2011
13:36
Source: Tanjug

BANJA LUKA -- The Serb republic (RS) will withdraw all officials from Bosnia's institutions if the high representative chooses to annul the decision to call a referendum.
This is according to a report in Banja Luka daily Glas Srpske....more...
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http://www.b92.net/eng/news/region-article.php?yyyy=2011&mm=05&dd=04&nav_id=74139

Bosnia: High representative "to annul referendum"

b92.net
Region

Monday 2.05.2011
17:10
Source: FoNet

SARAJEVO -- The international representative in Bosnia-Herzegovina will use the so-called Bonn powers to annul a decision to call a referendum in the Serb republic (RS)....more...
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http://www.b92.net/eng/news/region-article.php?yyyy=2011&mm=05&dd=02&nav_id=74113