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Transition to a prosperous market economy involves more than changing regulations and laws – it requires a change of mindset. And the indignant reaction from some quarters to the Special Auditor’s reports on public utilities companies shows that certain people haven’t yet made this mindset transition. The free market works on a very simple princip [...]

Jeffrey T. Kuhner’s commentary (Redrawing Bosnian Borders, 1 October 2003) argues that the International Community and its partners in Bosnia and Herzegovina have failed to set this country on the road to economic and political recovery. This is not true. The people of Bosnia and Herzegovina have come a long way towards re-establishing their dist [...]

Four months ago, when the BiH authorities and representatives of the main international organisations met at Bjelasnica, the governments considered practical measures to encourage job growth. As a result of that meeting, the BiH, RS and FbiH governments committed themselves to actions that will clean up the business environment, boost exports and a [...]

Politics is about getting things done. Good politics is about getting the right things done. Bad politics produces bad results -- little gets done, and often what does get done shouldn’t get done. No sane person could possibly argue that BiH has been in any way a showcase for good politics. It has to change, and to do that it has to develop a cultu [...]

I am writing to you following the disgraceful and unfounded attack on the integrity of a senior Russian diplomat working on secondment in the OHR (“Slobodna Bosna” br. 353, 21 August 2003). The OHR categorically rejects these allegations as unsubstantiated and untrue...

The governments of BiH are engaged in a "Summer Offensive on Unemployment". They have made a public commitment to the successful passage of a number of critical pieces of legislation and the implementation of related initiatives, all in order to promote real and substantial economic benefits for the citizens of Bosnia and Herzegovina in the coming [...]

Bosnia and Herzegovina is part of Europe - geographically, culturally, economically. The aspiration of almost all its citizens is to join the EU and achieving Union membership is the government’s strategic objective. In short, Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) is firmly inside the EU’s natural long-term borders. That is why it is a natural member of t [...]

It is three months since the fall of the Saddam regime, and every day brings fresh evidence of the enormous difficulties involved in building peace.

Your article of 5 July by Ian Traynor (“Ashdown ‘running Bosnia like a Raj’”) gives extensive and undue prominence to a preposterous comparison between the work of the international community in Bosnia and Herzegovina and colonialism in India. Your reporter has also compounded the mistake by misrepresenting my views.