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| Bosnia: 'Integrate or face isolation' warns international envoy |
| 2007-09-07 |
| (AKI) – The top international official in Bosnia, Miroslav Lajcak, warned local leaders on Thursday they must choose between isolation or European integration and would have to accept the consequences of their political choices. “I’m here today to tell you that you have to make a collective decision whether you want integration or isolation,” Lajcak told a joint session of both chambers of Bosnian parliament, attended by leaders of main political parties. The Slovak diplomat said political atmosphere in Bosnia was “poisoned by negative rhetoric, mutual accusations and absence of a desire to find solutions for its burning problems." Lajcak's warning followed more than a year of futile efforts by the international community to force local Muslim, Serb and Croat leaders to reach an agreement on police and constitutional reforms. These are the main preconditions for Bosnia being allowed to begin pre-entry talks with the European Union. He noted that no progress had been made in the past year in implementing reforms to aid Bosnia's integration in Europe and appealed to local politicians “to return to normal, constructive policy which would be useful to everyone.” Lajcak’s appeal came after local Muslims and Serbs, the country’s two biggest ethnic groups, last week rejected his proposal for police reforms, which would reduce power of entities police and strengthen the security forces on country level. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #5 McZoid, in Firefox one has to actually type out the HTML code Fred lists below the button thingies, instead of just clicking on Fred's convenient buttons. (I found it baffling for quite some time after I changed over from Internet Explorer.) Thusly for links a href=' 'link title/a only with the appropriate angled parenthesis (or whatever they're called)enclosing the bits on both sides of the link title. The trailing daughters smile proudly now when they see me doing it, but perhaps someone here knows how to show it without having key bits go invisible. ;-) |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2007-09-07 10:50 |
| #4 I use Firefox, so please cut and paste this copy of the Bosnian's "Islamic Declaration." (1970/1990) http://www.slobodan-milosevic.org/documents/islamic-declaration.pdf Why does your use of Firefox preclude you being able to post a link? I use Firefox and have no difficulty. Bosnian's "Islamic Declaration |
| Posted by: Natural Law 2007-09-07 09:29 |
| #3 That looks like an unbiased source on Bosnia |
| Posted by: Albemarle Cleaque8456 2007-09-07 06:28 |
| #2 Russia has both extreme oil leverage over the East, and popularity for their anti-Islam ideas. The East-Euro missile campaign won't go anywhere. I use Firefox, so please cut and paste this copy of the Bosnian's "Islamic Declaration." (1970/1990) http://www.slobodan-milosevic.org/documents/islamic-declaration.pdf |
| Posted by: McZoid 2007-09-07 06:02 |
| #1 D *** ng it, was it DEBKA? that reported that 00's of smuggled Iranian/Islamist fighters = terror proxies were hiding in Bosnia, or was it Kosovo??? |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2007-09-07 01:52 |