Дневни медијски извјештаји

The BiH Presidency asked on Thursday RS President, Mirko Sarovic, RS NA Speaker, Dragan Kalinic, and the RS Prime Minister, Mladen Ivanic, to undertake all necessary measures in the next 24 hours to punish those responsible for the violation of the embargo and the UN and [UN] Security Council resolutions on the export of military equipment and arm [...]

Oslobodjenje (front page) reports that at yesterday’s meeting in the OHR between PDHR Donald Hays and 15 political parties (or in closed meetings with Ashdown), there was no final agreement on the future authorities and/or coalitions. The daily writes that SDA and SDP were ready to offer Haris Silajdzic the post of the chairman (designate) of [...]

The High Representative, Paddy Ashdown, on Monday removed Munir Alibabic from his position as director of the Federation Intelligence Service (FOSS), because of frequent leaks of FOSS information to the public domain. OHR explained that this Decision is part of the process of introducing standards of accountability and professionalism that are exp [...]

A member of the BiH Election Commission Vehid Sehic said on Sunday that the BiH Election Commission has not violated the election law by allocation compensation mandates to the political parties that did not collect the necessary 3 per cent of votes at the general elections. He told the session of the Association of Independent Intellectuals “ [...]

The BiH Election Commission does not want to enter any polemics with the political parties regarding their accusations according to which an election fraud is at the scene through the allocation of the compensatory mandates at all levels of authority in BiH. The Commission President, Lidija Korac, told Oslobodjenje (p 8) that the Commission would d [...]

According to Oslobodjenje’s front-page story (continued on p 7), the Party for BiH would accept to re-establish a coalition with the SDP at the state level and in several cantons but it is conditioning the move by either resignation or removal of SDP leader Zlatko Lagumdzija. If Lagumdzija remains on the top position in the party, the Party for BiH [...]

“The civil servants must serve citizens and not political parties,” the High Representative, Paddy Ashdown, told a press conference in Sarajevo on Tuesday, while speaking about the appointments of new officers in the public institutions. Ahead of the meeting with the leaders of the strongest political parties in BiH (according to the el [...]

At its session scheduled for Tuesday in Sarajevo, the BiH Council of Ministers will allegedly, at the request of the Chairman Dragan Mikerevic and BiH Minister of Civil Affairs and Communications Svetozar Mihajlovic, reconsider its decision on the location of the Court of BiH residence. According to an Oslobodjenje (front page, p 6) source, “the Ra [...]

“I believe that Haris Silajdzic should even after such the results in the race for the Bosniak member of the BiH Presidency remain in the politics because both Bosnia and the Bosniaks need him. What I want to say is that, concerning both myself and the SDA, we are open for the cooperation with Silajdzic and the Party for BiH, and I think Sila [...]