Bosnia Report - February-May 1997

Agreement on Special Parallel Relations

An Enclave Too Far

And We Are All Guilty...

Bosnia is Here to Stay

Diary of the Damned

In Memoriam

Letter to Heads of State

Moment of Truth

Remembering Albert Wohlstetter

The myth of ethnic politics

What price Dayton?

What lies behind the FRY/RS Agreement

A Wretched Situation

Issue 18

February - May 1997

Moment of Truth
The open letter from Alija Izetbegovic and Haris Silajdzic which we print in this issue, by virtue of its diplomatic character and chosen form, represents a very restrained comment on the extent to which the Dayton Accords have not been, and are not being, implemented. It has nevertheless provoked an angry reaction from the State Department in Washington and Carl Bildt's office in Sarajevo. The anger is all the more surprising since they know that what the letter says is essentially true: the present trend in B-H is disintegrative rather than integrative.
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Letter to Heads of state:
'Dayton is not being implemented'
On 21 April 1997 President Alija Izetbegovic (Chair of the Presidency of B-H) and Dr Haris Silajdzic (Co-Chair of the Council of Ministers of B-H) met with High Representative Carl Bildt and with diplomatic representatives of the Contact Group countries (France, Germany, Russia, UK, USA), Holland (currently presiding over the EU), and Turkey (representing the Islamic Conference) in order to give them the following brief critical analysis of the current state of implementation of the Dayton Accords for transmission to their heads of state or government..
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