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Post by TsarSamuil on Aug 3, 2010 11:06:50 GMT -5
EU with secret plan for Bosnia.
28.07.2010 10:13:16
Дејли телеграф/Фонет
Baroness Ashton has drawn up a secret plan to take direct control of running Bosnia with new European Union powers to target Serb hardliners accused of challenging the state and blocking political reform.
A confidential paper, tabled by Europe's foreign minister this week, has urged the creation of a powerful European envoy this autumn, based in Sarajevo, to push through a new constitutional order for Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Key to the political reforms, demanded as a condition on EU entry for Bosnia, is a strengthening of a multi-ethnic federal state, mainly controlled by Muslims and Croats, at the expense of Republika Srpska, the Bosnian Serb government.
To overcome Serb blocking tactics, Lady Ashton is demanding that her new Bosnian envoy, part of her newly created diplomatic service, be given new powers by the Council of EU foreign ministers to impose travel bans and asset freezes on opponents.
European diplomats have confirmed that the new measures will be used against "anyone deemed to be obstructive", including Milorad Dodik, the elected prime Bosnian Serb prime minister, who backs independence from Bosnia.
"The approach it advocates would prepare the EU to take over the leading international role in Bosnia," the document said.
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Post by TsarSamuil on Aug 3, 2010 11:10:15 GMT -5
EU to scrap visa requirements for BiH later this year.
Мондо
27.07.2010 10:17:42
The citizens of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) will be granted visa-free access to the European Union's member countries later this year, Mondo news agency said on Tuesday.
EU members have reached an agreement to scrap visa obligations for the citizens of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The bloc is expected to boost its presence in BiH, as the office of the special representative will become a delegation of the European Commission, Slovenian Foreign Minister Samuel Zbogar said.
Zbogar made the remarks after Monday's meeting of the EU Foreign Affairs Council in Brussels. He added that the proposal for lifting travel restrictions will be submitted to the European Commission on September 2nd.
The proposal follows last year's Council Decision exempting from the short-term visa obligation the citizens of Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia.
It will be now up to the European Parliament and to the Council of the European Union to take a final decision on the Commission proposal. If the motion wins an approval, the travel restrictions could be lifted on December 19 or January 1 at latest.
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Post by TsarSamuil on Aug 24, 2010 8:00:50 GMT -5
"Turkey has hidden Balkan agenda"
24 August 2010 | 10:06 | Source: Beta
BANJA LUKA -- RS PM Milorad Dodik has stated that Serbia does not have a mandate to solve political issues on behalf of the Bosnian Serb entity.
He warned Belgrade about Turkey’s policy toward the region.
“We haven’t given anybody mandate to solve issues in Bosnia-Herzegovina with Turkey in this way,” he commented on the signing of the Istanbul Declaration.
Dodik said that Belgrade’s diplomatic cooperation with Turkey was a “defeat of the Serbian policy” and stated that current events in Serbia's southwestern Sandžak region were a consequence of the fact that Turkey was allowed to interfere in Bosnia-Herzegovina's interior issues.
“Turkey has a hidden goal – to create Bosnia to fit the Bosniaks and support Haris Silajdžić and Reis Mustafa Cerić’s concept according to which Bosnia-Herzegovina is a land of Bosniaks,” he pointed out.
The premier repeated that Bosnia, made up of the Serb republic, and the Muslim-Croat Federation, "does not have a future", and that it was a country that was “sustained by force on IV fluids of the international factors, and on fear of the great powers”.
Dodik stressed that RS authorities should respect the Dayton Accords, “everything that is its wording, and not its spirit, as promoted by foreigners”.
The Istanbul Declaration was signed by Turkish President Abdullah Gul, Serbian President Boris Tadić and Bosniak member of Bosnia-Herzegovina’s Presidency Haris Silajdžić several months ago.
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Post by TsarSamuil on Sept 16, 2010 10:33:29 GMT -5
Poll shows strong support for Dodik.
16 September 2010 | 12:55 | Source: Tanjug
BANJA LUKA -- Milorad Dodik, who is a candidate for the post of the Republic of Srpska (RS) president, is a favorite to win the election, according to a new poll.
Dodik is running on the Alliance of Independent Social-Democrats (SNSD) list.
In the general elections for Bosnia-Herzegovina institutions, Dodik's party colleague Nebojša Radmanović looks likely to become a member of the Bosnian presidency.
The latest poll, conducted by the Ipsos Strategic Marketing, shows that Dodik enjoys the support of 62 percent of those interviewed, while 55 percent said they would vote for Radmanović in his Bosnian presidency bid.
Trailing behind Dodik and Radmanović are Together for Srpska coalition's Ognjen Radić and Mladen Ivanić of the SDS with 34, and 37 percent respectively.
The survey was conducted in the first half of September, with 1,203 people interviewed.
Of the 78 percent of voters who said they had decided which party to support in the race for RS parliament in Banja Luka, 51 percent chose SNSD, while 23 percent said they would vote for SDS.
According to this, three other parties - PDP, DNS and SRS RS - would also win seats, with eight, five and three percent of votes respectively.
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Post by The Ultimate Warrior on Sept 16, 2010 21:34:50 GMT -5
"Turkey has hidden Balkan agenda" 24 August 2010 | 10:06 | Source: Beta BANJA LUKA -- RS PM Milorad Dodik has stated that Serbia does not have a mandate to solve political issues on behalf of the Bosnian Serb entity. He warned Belgrade about Turkey’s policy toward the region. “We haven’t given anybody mandate to solve issues in Bosnia-Herzegovina with Turkey in this way,” he commented on the signing of the Istanbul Declaration. Dodik said that Belgrade’s diplomatic cooperation with Turkey was a “defeat of the Serbian policy” and stated that current events in Serbia's southwestern Sandžak region were a consequence of the fact that Turkey was allowed to interfere in Bosnia-Herzegovina's interior issues. “Turkey has a hidden goal – to create Bosnia to fit the Bosniaks and support Haris Silajdžić and Reis Mustafa Cerić’s concept according to which Bosnia-Herzegovina is a land of Bosniaks,” he pointed out. The premier repeated that Bosnia, made up of the Serb republic, and the Muslim-Croat Federation, "does not have a future", and that it was a country that was “sustained by force on IV fluids of the international factors, and on fear of the great powers”. Dodik stressed that RS authorities should respect the Dayton Accords, “everything that is its wording, and not its spirit, as promoted by foreigners”. The Istanbul Declaration was signed by Turkish President Abdullah Gul, Serbian President Boris Tadić and Bosniak member of Bosnia-Herzegovina’s Presidency Haris Silajdžić several months ago. Its sad to see that the majority of the balkan peasents are still a bit behind with the times. Turkey is the least of your worries for increasing muslim support. While you idiots blindly cheer against the turks the slimy and cunning arabs build new mosques in the balkans, send over crazy clergymen who teach the population the fanatical whabi ways, and financially support all whahabi muslims in the balkans. Its pieces of shit like the rich muslims in Saudi Arabia and Egypt that need to be banned from the balkans, but keep on sticking your heads in the sand and let the arabs take over the balkans.... |
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Post by TsarSamuil on Sept 16, 2010 21:58:15 GMT -5
Arabs are pouring gasoline on the flames, but the flames were already there. We don't need Wahhabism as a threat, Ottoman Empire wasn't Wahhabic, Kosovo Albanians weren't Wahhabic, Islam is the threat, regardless of what interpretation it chooses to take.
Look at Chechnya, Putin is letting Kadyrov run wild, he is chasing down Wahhabi terrorists n saying that's a foreign version of Islam to the Caucasus, they don't need it, they have their own. Problem is, what's the difference?
"3 Mar 2009 ... Ramzan Kadyrov said the women, whose bodies were found dumped by the roadside, had “loose morals” and were rightfully shot by male relatives ..."
Who needs Saudis? Yes, ofc I agree with you that Saudis are a nuisance, but hardly the biggest threat.
Oh, and across Bulgaria's border, there is a ca 1 000 000 man Turkish army, I'd say that's a bit bigger problem. No doubt they want to bully the entire Balkans, caucasus n middle east with that force..
Edit: I want to add that Turkey just had a Constitutional referendum, that the stupid westerners say was "progress" against threats of military coups..
But that also means the military can't step in anymore n prevent a government to remove secularism. Now, an Islamic party can bring back the clock n have an Islamic state... Ottomans again??
Erdogan quotes:
“One cannot be a secularist and a Muslim at the same time. The Muslim world is waiting for Turkish people to rise up” he declared. Then there was the time he was sentenced to four months in prison for provoking religious animosity by publicly reciting the following lines: “The mosques are our barracks, the domes our bayonets and the faithful our soldiers. . . . This holy army guards my religion.”
Erdogan stated that democracy was like a bus: “You ride it until you arrive at your destination, then you step off.”
“There is no moderate Islam. Islam is Islam and that’s that”
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Post by TsarSamuil on Sept 30, 2010 7:21:03 GMT -5
RS PM: Bosnia "impossible" state.
29 September 2010 | 20:01 | Source: Beta, Tanjug
BELGRADE -- Milorad Dodik said that Bosnia is an "impossible state" and that he saw no possibility it could survive in its present form.
"Bosnia is an impossible country, many of you know that better than I do. It has no common history. It has a history of divisions", the prime minister of the country's Serb entity, RS, was quoted as saying.
"The people who live there have no common international holidays except for New Year's Day and Victory Day on May 9”, Dodik said.
Dodik, who is running for president in the RS elections on October 3, said that crumbling of the political scene in the RS must be avoided and added that the foreigners' had a problem with the “concentrated political power in the RS”.
"I am convinced a day will come for the Serbian people to decide on their status in a referendum, the status of the RS within Bosnia. I do not have to tell to you much, you can imagine what that might be", Dodik said.
He added that RS came to grips with the "fallacy of the good will of the international factor," which has, according to him, implemented the Dayton agreement at the expense of the Serbian people.
"Legally speaking, the mission of the international community was its illegal presence, legal and political violence of international factors via the High Representative who passed 800 unlawful decisions, approximately 200 of which were the imposed laws that directly interefered in the political system and the allocation of responsibilities," Dodik said.
In relation to the Srebrenica genocide, Dodik said that "the expansion and promotion of what happened in Srebrenica" is a way to preserve the stereotype of the guilt of the Serbian people.
"A few months ago, we presented unmistakable piece of evidence that the list of 8,000 Bosniaks allegedly murdered in Srebrnica, whose names are at the marble tombstone in Potočari, contains at least 500 names of the living people, a clear proof of falsehood", Dodik said.
He added that the list also contained names of people who had died away from Srebrenica or had been killed or died in that area before.
Dodik said that the original Dayton agreement was "significantly devastated", which is the root cause of the current imbalance and divisions within Bosnia. He added that the RS did not contest the original nine competencies in Bosnia, but did object to everything else that had been done in regard to the transfer of power, which was concentrated in the Muslim-controlled Sarajevo.
Dodik said that the foreigners pushed for constitutional changes, but that the Serbs had a right to oppose to these changes.
"The priority of our national politics is the restoration of the competencies that were taken away from us", Dodik said at the meeting held by the Association of Serbs from Bosnia and Croatia on the position of the RS and Serbs in Croatia and Bosnia.
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Post by TsarSamuil on Oct 4, 2010 11:48:26 GMT -5
Milorad Dodik Wins Presidency of Republika Srpska.
Novinite.com
World | October 4, 2010, Monday
Bosnian Serb nationalist Milorad Dodik has won the presidential elections in Republika Srpska.
The electoral commission has announced that Dodik, who is currently the Prime Minister of the Bosnia's Serb-run entity, won 53,13% of the votes on Sunday after counting of 73,3% of the ballots.
Far behind is his major opponent, Ognjen Tadic, with 37,12% of the votes.
Another voting that also took place on Sunday was the voting for Bosnia's tripartite presidency. Nebojsa Radmanovic, another Bosnian Serb national, won 49,9% of the votes.
Bakir Izetbegovic, who called upon dialogue between Bosnia's deeply divided ethnic groups, won 34,82% of the votes, leading the race for the Muslim spot in the presidency.
He was followed by Fahrudin Radoncic, who gained 30,74% of the votes. The current Muslim leader, Haris Silajdzic, received only 24,86% of the votes on Sunday.
Almost 15 years since the end of the Bosnian war, Muslims, Croats and Serbs remain entrenched in their own communities and the mistrust between the country's two semi-independent entities, the Bosnian Serb-dominated Republika Srpska and the Muslim-Croat Federation, has widened.
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Post by TsarSamuil on Oct 5, 2010 18:10:45 GMT -5
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Post by TsarSamuil on Oct 7, 2010 14:24:11 GMT -5
www.youtube.com/watch?v=d51poygEXYUHitler, The Mufti Of Jerusalem And Modern Islamo Nazism. This news report from Bayerischer Rundfunk explains in detail the cooperation between the Nazis and the Muslim Arab leaders during WW2. It goes on to explain how high ranking heads of the SS fled to the Arab world and carried on their activities under the protection of leaders such as President Nasser and how modern Islam has adopted a Nazi style ideology of hate and conspiracy against the Jews.
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Post by TsarSamuil on Oct 10, 2010 9:46:12 GMT -5
The Bosnian Standoff - Empire's Fantasy and Balkans Reality.
Antiwar.com
by Nebojsa Malic, October 09, 2010
Though some of the results of last week’s general elections in Bosnia-Herzegovina have potential to prove interesting down the road, overall the vote was neither unexpected nor dramatic. Twenty years after the first multi-party election, which saw the triumph of ethnic parties and set the scene for Bosnia’s subsequent civil war, nothing substantial has changed in Bosnian politics. Serbs remain opposed to a centralized government. Croats remain unhappy about their dwindling numbers and influence, but would rather perish than agree with the Serbs on anything. Meanwhile, Muslim leaders continue to insist on Izetbegovic the Elder’s dream of a centralized Bosnian state, dominated by Muslims. This particular form of deadlock may well be dubbed the "Bosnian standoff." The Empire and partisans of liberal interventionism may find it frustrating, but it is a fact nonetheless.
Retrenchment
In the Serb Republic, current PM Milorad Dodik’s party retained its majority, while Dodik himself will move to the post of President. It would not be unreasonable to expect that office to become more important in the coming days, as power in Bosnia tends to be vested in persons, rather than the offices they occupy. Much more interesting was the race for the Serb seat in the country’s three-man Presidency, which the incumbent, Nebojsa Radmanovic, won by just 2.75%.
After many years of factional disputes, the principal Croat ethnic party, HDZ, has reasserted itself. However, it still lost the race for the Croat seat in the Presidency, which went to the incumbent, the Social-Democrat Zeljko Komsic.
The Son Also Rises
The elections were most dramatic among the country’s Muslims. Haris Silajdzic, Muslim member of the Presidency for the past four years and a fixture in every government since 1992, came third in the presidential vote. His party was also trounced in races for the state and Federation parliaments. The principal beneficiary of Silajdzic’s demise was Fahrudin Radoncic, overleveraged media tycoon who sought to save his fortunes by founding a political party. Radoncic’s Better Future Party (SBB) won some seats in various parliaments, and he himself came in second in the Muslim leg of the Presidency race. For a party that didn’t exist a year ago, these are spectacular results — but for the opportunists who crossed over from Silajdzic’s camp, they won’t be good enough.
In the end, the Muslim Presidency seat went to Bakir Izetbegovic, son of the wartime Muslim leader, Alija. The Western media have praised him as a "moderate"; but in comparison with Silajdzic, that isn’t exactly hard. Compared to the current party leader, Sulejman Tihic, the younger Izetbegovic is an outright extremist. He commands the loyalty of the party’s "old guard" — Izetbegovic the Elder’s fellow Islamic revolutionaries — and has already called Turkey a "powerful and wise big brother," and asked for its continued involvement in Bosnia.
Other than Izetbegovic’s victory, however, the SDA had little to celebrate. In all but one of the six Muslim-majority cantons in the Federation, they lost to the Social-Democrats (SDP).
A Bitter Victory
On paper, the SDP has much cause for celebration. In addition to their near-sweep in the cantons, they should have the most seats both in the Federation and the state parliaments. Their man in the Presidency was re-elected by an overwhelming margin. Yet the fruits of this victory may turn into the seeds of SDP’s undoing.
To actually govern, the SDP will have to form a coalition with someone. Trouble is, all of their choices are bad. Irrespective of electoral math, a coalition with Radoncic is unthinkable for a legion of reasons; he represents everything the SDP have campaigned against, from kleptocracy and opportunism to corruption and crass chauvinism. The HDZ is already sore that the SDP won the Croat seat in the Presidency with Muslim votes. But if they ally with the SDA, which now appears likely, the SDP would have to compromise their principles (social democracy, anti-nationalism) for the sake of power. They’ve done it once before, in 2000, when they allied with Silajdzic at Washington’s urging. That "Alliance for Change" was a fiasco from which the SDP took 8 years to recover.
To make matters worse, the SDP have a horrible relationship with the social democrats (Dodik’s SNSD) in the Serb Republic, whom they consider to be nothing more than nationalists. The SNSD, for their part, think of the SDP as yet another Muslim ethnic party, whose vision of Bosnia doesn’t differ significantly from that of Izetbegovic — father or son. An alliance with the SDA, however motivated by pragmatism, will only reinforce that perception.
Empire’s Dream
Bosnia’s fundamental problem is that its ethnic communities cannot agree on whether the country should exist at all, let alone how. Left to their own devices, it is possible the three communities could perhaps find some way to either live together, or go their separate ways. The Empire, however, has other plans.
Washington has already expressed a desire for a government "committed to tackling the outstanding constitutional and other issues needed to place the country on a firm path to Euro-Atlantic integration" (emphasis added). Translated from State Department-speak, this means a regime willing and able to amend the country’s Constitution (thus revising the 1995 peace treaty) in order to create a centralized government, for the ostensible purpose of joining the EU and NATO.
Why does the Empire continue to insist on a Bosnia that cannot realistically exist? There are several explanations, overlapping to an extent. To the U.S. foreign policy establishment, Bosnia is more than just a small, landlocked Balkans backwater. It is a founding myth of Empire, a nexus of symbols that underpin everything that came after, from Kosovo to Afghanistan.
It is a symbol of Empire’s power to declare that the multiethnic Yugoslavia must and shall fracture along ethnic lines, but a multiethnic Bosnia cannot. For some, it is also a shining example of U.S. benevolence towards the Muslim world, for which Washington expects gratitude. After a decade of bloody, costly and dubious wars in the Middle East, the restored Clinton gang needs the Balkans as a contrasting example of "successful" liberal interventionism. Between all this, nobody is willing to accept that Bosnia is a fiasco, even though that is the obvious truth.
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Post by TsarSamuil on Oct 12, 2010 19:10:12 GMT -5
Clinton urges Bosnia to end ethnic divide.
Sarajevo, 12 October 2010 (MIA) - US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Tuesday warned Bosnia that it risks seeing its hopes of joining the EU and NATO dashed unless it can start bridging its deep political and ethnic divide, AFP news agency reports.
"That state (Bosnia) will need to deliver more for its citizens, by passing reforms that would improve key services, attract more foreign investment, and make the government more functional and accountable," Clinton said.
These changes are not only needed for their own sake but are also essential for Bosnia's ambitions to join the European Union and NATO, she added.
"Your neighbours have taken strides in that direction (...) Bosnia and Herzegovina must join them or risk being left behind," she warned.
Clinton started her two-day tour of the Balkans in Bosnia where she will meet a host of different politicians and is expected to push them to work towards a more centralised state a week after elections which failed to heal the country's ethnic divide.
"Hatreds have eased, but nationalism persists. Meanwhile the promise of greater stability and opportunity --represented by integration into Europe-- remains out of reach," Clinton told students in Sarajevo's national theatre.
In the elections pro-reform moderate political parties gained ground in the Muslim-Croat part of the country, but the nationalist Union of Independent Social Democrats (SNSD) won comfortably in the Serb entity known as the Republika Srpska.
It is almost 15 years since the US-brokered Dayton peace accords ended the bloody 1992-95 inter-ethnic war in Bosnia. Since that time the country has made only tiny steps towards healing the deeply entrenched divide between the former enemies, mostly Bosnian Muslims and Bosnian Serbs, and creating a more centralised state.
Post-war Bosnia remains divided into the semi-autonomous Muslim Croat Federation and the Bosnian Serbs' Republika Srpska.
Clinton met with the members of the tripartite presidency earlier Tuesday and will go on to meet other political leaders later.
She will also meet Milorad Dodik, the newly elected president of the Republika Srpska, who just last week rejected calls by the international community for improved relations within Bosnia.
In the afternoon Clinton will travel to Belgrade where she will meet with Serbian President Boris Tadic to discuss the start of the EU-sponsored talks between Serbia and breakaway Kosovo.
In the students' meeting Clinton said her message for Bosnia, Serbia and Kosovo was one and the same.
"The message is that now is the time to build upon the gains made in recent years, and to strengthen democratic institutions, deepen peace between neighbours, and create the conditions for long-term political, economic, and social progress," she said.
"For Serbia and Kosovo, that means, among other things, making their upcoming dialogue a success by engaging sincerely and creatively to resolve their differences once and for all."
While in Belgrade Clinton is expected also to stress the importance of the arrest of wartime Bosnian Serb army commander Ratko Mladic wanted on genocide charges and widely believed to be hiding in Serbia.
She could also try to enlist Tadic, who supported Dodik's presidential campaign in the Republika Srpska, to pressure the hardline Bosnian Serb leader to accept reforms in Bosnia.
On Wednesday Clinton will travel on to Kosovo: in the capital Pristina, she will meet with the provisional leaders of a country which was shaken by the surprise resignation of President Fatmir Sejdiu for internal political reasons.
The United States is among 70 states to have recognised Kosovo.
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Post by TsarSamuil on Oct 24, 2010 19:55:37 GMT -5
Dodik likes idea of Croat entity.
24 October 2010 | 18:32 | Source: FoNet
ZAGREB -- Republic of Srpska (RS) President Milorad Dodik says the time is high for Bosnia-Herzegovina to become a state union of three peoples and three entities.
The post 1992-95 war Bosnia has been arranged with the Dayton peace accords into the Serb republic (RS) and the Muslim-Croat Federation.
Dodik told Zagreb-based Croatian daily Večernji List that a separate Croat entity in Bosnia is a reality.
According to him, Bosniaks (Muslims) must realize that the stability of Bosnia-Herzegovina depends on their stance regarding that entity.
"If they wish to sustain Bosnia-Herzegovina, that (Croat) entity should be in their political program," said the RS leader.
At the same time, he noted that the Serb entity's "territorial capacity" is untouchable, and that there is no RS politician that would accept any talks on the subject of territorial rearrangements of the Serb republic.
Dodik also said that Croats in Bosnia were "devastated" by various intrigues brought on my some in the international community, and by Muslims.
"Bosniaks have clearly gathered together in order to marginalize Croats. There can be no talks about any multi-ethnic community without the Croats' equal position held as a political people," said Dodik.
The RS president also told the newspaper that the Bosniak desire to impose absolute domination over Croats and Serbs was "contentious".
At the same time, he denied allegations that he and Bosnian Croat HDZ party leader Dragan Čović had forged a secret plan, and said these claims were coming from "sick media constructions, or from institutions that are more than anyone else destroying any hope that Bosnia-Herzegovina is possible".
Dodik stressed that during a recent meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, she heard that his was not a policy of secession - "as they lie in Sarajevo" - but that he did believe it was best for Bosnia-Herzegovina to disintegrate peacefully.
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Post by pastir on Oct 25, 2010 11:43:18 GMT -5
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Post by pastir on Oct 30, 2010 10:11:10 GMT -5
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