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Post by kapetan on Oct 12, 2008 18:11:17 GMT -5
SARAJEVO -- Miroslav Lajèak spoke against ideas that the Republic of Srpska (RS) should be abolished, or that this entity should separate.
Both ideas, the Slovak diplomat who heads the Office of the High Representative (OHR) in Bosnia-Herzegovina, are "impossible, deeply immoral and technically undoable".
"The lying to the people must stop – politicians are saying they will scrap the Republic of Srpska, while politicians from the other side, in that entity, are playing with the idea to separate from Bosnia-Herzegovina," he told Slovak reporters in Sarajevo today.
"That is deeply immoral, the international community will never allow for it," Lajèak said, and added that, while "since 2006 until mid-2008 the attention was focused on Kosovo and then on Serbia, since the summer, Bosnia is once again the issue number one in the Balkans".
After the dramatic local elections, he continued, the international community "must not allow things to take their own course", but must instead "more actively fulfill its obligations to have Bosnia return to its European perspective".
"Bosnia is a country with an EU perspective, it has signed the SAA, and from this stems the EU's special responsibility," Lajèak added.
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Post by Trazi Vise on Oct 13, 2008 2:03:31 GMT -5
So where will it go then, if it won't dissapear or seperate. It must go somewhere? :-)
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Post by SKORIC on Oct 13, 2008 2:25:32 GMT -5
^ Stay the way it is. Why must it go somewhere?
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Post by Trazi Vise on Oct 13, 2008 3:07:07 GMT -5
I didn't realise that was the point of the article. The comedy continues. I don't get it, Miroslav is contradicting himself...So Bosnia needs to be back into Europe. Well what happenes to RS then? You'd think that would have to be sorted out first. Or do they think they are a part of Bosnia without actually being a part of it rofl...I find it hard to explain to non balkan people about this mess; when even the leaders don't even know what they're on about.
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Post by tito on Oct 13, 2008 4:20:45 GMT -5
So Bosnia needs to be back into Europe. Well what happenes to RS then? You'd think that would have to be sorted out first. 04.10.2008 Nakon rezolucije Vijeæa Evrope, Venecijanska komisija oèekuje da vlasti Bosne i Hercegovine hitno uklone odredbe koje diskriminiraju biraèe pri izboru èlanova Predsjedništva BiH i delegate u domovima naroda!! Tomas Merkert (Thomas), zamjenik sekretara Venecijanske komisije, u razgovoru za "Dnevni avaz" kaže da postojeæe odredbe u ovim oblastima predstavljaju "direktno kršenje standarda EU". - Kompozicija Predsjedništva BiH i Doma naroda je diskriminirajuæa. To pitanje treba se riješiti odmah na poèetku - istièe on i dodaje da se promjene Ustava BiH moraju raditi u fazama, korak po korak, te da se dosta toga mora ostaviti i za neke kasnije faze. Merkert poruèuje kako oèekuje da se nastavi prijenos ovlasti s entiteta na državu, "posebno u oblastima važnim za integracije u EU". - Vitalni nacionalni interes mora se precizno definirati i suziti, entitetsko glasanje ili se mora ukinuti ili bitno reducirati. Ako se Dom naroda Državnog parlamenta ne može ukinuti, a njegove ovlasti u malom dijelu prenijeti na Predstavnièki dom, onda se ovlasti Doma naroda, takoðer, trebaju znatno smanjiti. Naravno, svjesni smo da su ove promjene moguæe korak po korak. Potrebno je ojaèati Vijeæe ministara, a smanjiti ulogu i ovlasti Predsjedništva BiH. Vaša zemlja treba uspostaviti vrhovni sud koji æe imati ogranièene ovlasti - navodi Merkert neke od zahtjeva evropskih (pravnih) institucija. On upozorava da æe pitanje teritorijalne organizacije unutar BiH izazvati najviše kontroverzi i da je to ujedno i najteži zadatak koji se postavlja pred bh. vlasti. - Jasno je da je unutar FBiH jedan nivo vlasti - višak! U konaènici ustav, odista je vrlo poželjno BiH prekomponirati na nekoliko regiona, umjesto sadašnih entiteta, kantona i distrikta. Ne mislim da bi se ova promjena mogla desiti tako skoro, posebno ne u prvim fazama pregovora o ustavnim promjenama. Takoðer, znam da bi sasvim nerealno bilo zahtijevati da se uspostave regioni na principima èiste funkcionalnosti, ignorirajuæi trenutne meðuentitetske linije - naglašava naš sagovornik. On istièe kako je svakome jasno da je "promjena Ustava od suštinskog znaèaja ako BiH želi biti funkcionalna država kadra u potpunosti uèestvovati u procesu evropskih integracija". - Ustavna reforma mora se temeljiti na konsenzusu meðu predstavnicima sva tri naroda. Zbog toga je spremnost na kompromis svih strana od suštinskog znaèaja za ovaj proces - kaže Merkert. On oèekuje da se ovom poslu pristupi odmah nakon lokalnih izbora te da æe meðunarodne institucije, ukljuèujuæi i Vijeæe Evrope, pružiti svu potrebnu pomoæ.
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Post by theblackswans on Oct 13, 2008 9:29:00 GMT -5
The Dayton accords and the mono ethnic structure of Bosnia doesn't fit with the EU constitution. If Bosnia joins the EU it means the end of RS as we know it, but also the mono ethnic policies in the Federation.
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Post by Trazi Vise on Oct 13, 2008 9:41:46 GMT -5
^^^that's right black, I agree with you; but what this guys says in the article is that it's not going to seperate or disappear. So who's contradicting who?I think these pollies are just saying what's right for them at this point in time, and you bet my bottom dollar they will have a different view point to suit their ambitions and goals and no doubt he will contradict himself in a few years when it's time to make some serious decisions.
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Post by theblackswans on Oct 13, 2008 10:15:59 GMT -5
^^^that's right black, I agree with you; but what this guys says in the article is that it's not going to seperate or disappear. So who's contradicting who?I think these pollies are just saying what's right for them at this point in time, and you bet my bottom dollar they will have a different view point to suit their ambitions and goals and no doubt he will contradict himself in a few years when it's time to make some serious decisions. Of course, these nationalists politicians sow hate and fear (Like Republicans in the US about 9-11 or Barack being an Arab terrorist) because that is what gets them elected and keeps them in power. It's much easier to prey on peoples weaknesses than to fufill there hopes and dreams.
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Post by Trazi Vise on Oct 13, 2008 10:45:55 GMT -5
Exactly right. I had a similar convo with someone...it was more about helping people in general and being a mentor but it has a similar end point. Truth is not many people can or want to do that...transfer your knowledge to someone else for them to succeed. It is the same with the politicians back home. All for themselves.
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