Monday, September 10, 2007

HARIS SILAJDZIC : LAJCAK SHOULD HAVE DIRECTLY NAMED THOSE WHO ARE BLOCKING REFORMS IN BOSNIA

SARAJEVO,Bosnia (September 10,2007) – Haris Silajdzic,a member of the Bosnian Presidency and the SBIH Party President,criticised international community's high representative in Bosnia,Miroslav Lajcak, for failing to directly name those holding back reform processes in Bosnia,in his speech before the Bosnian Parliament.

Silajdzic stated that it would have been only fair had Lajcak named those who have prevented reforms in Bosnia, such as police reform, because it would have helped the “achievement of the objective”.

Silajdzic reiterated the position of the Party of Democratic Action (SDA) and the SBiH Party that Lajcak’s proposal on police reform plays into the hands of the political parties of the Serbians living in Bosnia and that the FBIH entity has been totally devalued by that proposal.

"That proposal is incomprehensible and looks like a provocation, Silajdzic said in the Bosnian Parliament after Lajcak’s address.

Silajdzic also said that parties from the FBIH have accepted everything in talks on police reform so far, while parties from (the genocidal Serbian creature in Bosnia) "the RS" have rejected everything. He also said that the report of the Police Reform Directorate was unacceptable for all sides.

Silajdzic said that what the international community is doing right now in Bosnia, will lead to nothing.

"Exactly this approach of going with the flow by the international community has represented the problem for all these years and if continued it will lead to nothing," Silajdzic concluded.

SDA PRESIDENT SULEJMAN TIHIC UNDERWENT SURGERY

SARAJEVO,Bosnia (September 10,2007) – The President of the Party of Democratic Action (SDA), Sulejman Tihic underwent a surgery at the University of Sarajevo Clinical Center.

Medical team, lead by Prof. Dr. Ismet Gavrankapetanovic and Dr. Mufid Lazovic, performed a challenging surgical procedure which lasted over three hours, Biljana Jandric, University of Sarajevo Clinicla Center Spokesperson announced.

”The patient is feeling well. He is in a good mood and all the post surgery procedures will go in accordance to plans”, Jandric said.

FLORENCE HARTMANN : RUSSIAN PRESIDENT YELTSIN BLOCKED ARREST OF SERBIAN WAR CRIMINAL RADOVAN KARADZIC IN 1997

SARAJEVO,Bosnia (September 10,2007) - The Russian President Boris Yeltsin blocked the arrest of the former political leader of the Serbians living in Bosnia,Serbian war criminal Radovan Karadzic in 1997, and the U.S. President Bill Clinton persuaded France's Jacques Chirac not to insist on it, a new book says.

Florence Hartmann, former spokeswoman at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), recounts in her book "Peace and Punishment" how the U.S. president Bill Clinton persuaded French president Jacques Chirac not to push the issue.

Hartmann says they met at the Elysee Palace in Paris in May 1997, 17 months after the peace accords that ended the 1992-95 Serbian,Montenegrin and Croatian aggressions against Bosnia.

The French president Chirac, fuming over the capture of two French pilots by the genocidal Serbian formations in 1995, wanted to expunge the affront.

"Clinton stressed that the operation could not be undertaken without informing the Russians. Chirac was opposed. But Clinton insisted, and Chirac finally gave in. Karadzic remains at large," Hartmann writes.

Serbian war criminal Radovan Karadzic was indicted by the Hague-based International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) for war crimes, genocide, crimes against humanity and severe breaches of the Geneva Conventions comitted during the 1992-1995 Serbian aggression against Bosnia.

CHINESE ASSISTANT FOREIGN MINISTER VISITED BOSNIA

SARAJEVO, Bosnia (September 10,2007) - Chinese Assistant Foreign Minister Kong Quan visited Slovenia, Bosnia, Montenegro and Latvia last week.

During his visit to Bosnia, Kong met with Bosnia's Prime Minister Nikola Spiric, Bosnian Foreign Minister Sven Alkalaj and Deputy Foreign Minister Ana Trisic Babic.

Spiric spoke highly of China's positive role in international affairs and thanked China for its valuable support for Bosnia's reconstruction.

Bosnian Prime Minister reiterated his government's firm support for the one-China policy and opposition to any separatist action, including the so-called referendum on UN membership proposed by the Taiwan authorities.

Chinese Assistant Foreign Minister Kong Quan said China would like to make concerted efforts with Bosnia to promote bilateral ties.