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by Wolfgang Petritsch Culture ranges from the way we speak, and the beliefs with which we set out on lifeas journey, to the customs of our town and country. And it can be defined by criteria outside family and nation. Classical music is a primary culture for some people; sport is for others.

By Wolfgang Petritsch The Serbian government's decision to send Slobodan Milosevic to The Hague has been greeted with near universal satisfaction. The extradition contributes to a new political environment in which energies can be focused on economic reform and development throughout former Yugoslavia. The positive impact of Mr.

We Must Stay the Course in Bosnia The Wall Street Journal Europe 12 June 2001 Letters to the Editor The pace of change in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and in South East Europe as a whole, has picked up in recent months. One reflection of this is the resurgence of creative proposals for new constitutional and national arrangements in the region.

By Wolfgang Petritsch I read with much concern Fareed Zakaria's column advocating the redrawing of borders in the Balkans ("Breathing Room in the Balkans," WORLD VIEW, April 2). It will take much more than "a few new chairs" at the United Nations to establish a lasting peace in that region, and changing borders there would be disastrous-as it was w [...]

By Wolfgang Petritsch SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina - Just as international engagement in the Balkans has been showing positive results - after 10 hard years and a difficult start - there are growing calls on both sides of the Atlantic to

By Vehid Jahic This week Ambassador Gary Matthews has officially left the position of the Supervisor of the Brcko District BIH, which he performed over the last year. Ambassador Matthews is now going to assume responsibilities of the Senior Deputy Special Representative of the UN in Kosovo.

by WOLFGANG PETRITSCH In banning Ante Jelavic from public office yesterday, I fulfilled my mandate to protect the Dayton Peace Accords and so secure the hard-won peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Mr Jelavic, the Croat member of Bosnia's three-member presidency and the leader of the nationalist Croat Democratic Union (HDZ), has behaved in an unacce [...]

by Wolfgang Petritsch It is always useful to read criticism of our work here in Bosnia and Herzegovina but Stephen Schwartzas op-ed piece in The Wall Street Journal Europe ("The Great Balkan Botch-UP", Feb.15) was neither constructive nor informative. Our humanitarian efforts here are anything but "colonial".

by Wolfgang Petritsch HDZ consistently refuses to cooperate and fulfil its constitutional obligation to which it was elected: to govern. Their reasons for trying to bring BiH to its knees are spurious and damaging. It can be illustrated by the fact that the overall votes for the HDZ have more than halved since 1996. To describe what the situation i [...]

The International Herald Tribune, 01 February 2001 SARAJEVO, Bosnia "Something strange is going on," Thomas L. Friedman wrote on the situation in the Balkans (IHT Opinion, Jan. 24). I could not agree more. By advocating "soft partition" of Bosnia-Herzegovina, he and others suggest that the nationalists who threw the Balkans into a brutal war that k [...]