Russia and France share concerns about the security situation in Europe, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Monday.

Opening a meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron in Moscow, with tensions over Ukraine looming large, Putin thanked Macron for his “active” attitude towards what he called the problems of European security.
- I understand that we have a common concern about what is happening in the security sphere in Europe - said Putin.
He added:&nbsp;- I want to thank you for the fact that France has always been very actively involved in the development of fundamental decisions in this area - meaning the security sphere in Europe.
The Russian leader then praised Macron's efforts to resolve the Ukrainian issue and provide "equal security" in Europe.
- I see how much effort the current leadership of France and the president of France personally are making to resolve the crisis related to ensuring equal security in Europe for a serious historical perspective and to address issues that are closely related to the first part – with the resolution of the internal Ukrainian crisis in the southeast of the country - he said, referring to the conflict-torn Donbas region.

Macron said dialogue with Russia is "the principal way of achieving stability and security in Europe.”

- We have laid the foundation for a full and open dialogue in 2019. I think that the dialogue is more relevant now than ever. This dialogue is necessary only it will ensure security and stability on the European continent - he said.
Macron added that in his meeting with Putin he hopes to find answers to security issues for both Europe and Russia.
- I am glad that I will be able to discuss all the issues in detail, and we will be able to start searching for a collective answer that is useful for Russia and the whole of Europe. Such a response will help to avoid war and build stability, transparency, and trust for everyone - he said.
Moscow and Kyiv have been locked in conflict since hostilities in the eastern Donbas region broke out in 2014 after Russia annexed the Crimean Peninsula.
Russia has now amassed thousands of troops near Ukraine's borders, prompting fears it could be planning another military offensive against the former Soviet republic.
The US and its allies have warned of an imminent attack, and threatened Russia with “severe consequences.”
Moscow, however, has denied it is preparing to invade Ukraine and said its troops are there for exercises.

In meeting with Putin, with Ukraine issue looming large, French president says he hopes to find answers to security issues for both Europe, Russia

Putin says Russia, France share concern about security situation in Europe

The continuation of the "Neum negotiations", ie a new meeting of the leaders of the political parties on limited electoral and constitutional reforms will be held on Thursday, "Vijesti.ba" reports.
In accordance with the conclusions from Neum, the leader of SBB Fahrudin Radončić and the president of NIP Elmedin Konaković held talks with the leader of HDZ BiH Dragan Čović these days. It was agreed that the next joint meeting of leaders who attended the talks in Neum would be held on Thursday in the building of BiH institutions. As it is known, Čović and Izetbegović accepted the idea in Neum to continue the talks, but the HNS demanded that this time the dialogue be led by domestic partners.

It was agreed that the next joint meeting of leaders who attended the talks in Neum would be held on Thursday in the building of BiH institutions

Fahrudin Radončić and Elmedin Konaković

Negotiations continue on Thursday: Radončić and Konaković spoke with Čović

Three climbers missing since Saturday afternoon were found dead on Sunday in Helmos mountain in the Peloponnese, the Greek fire brigade said, allegedly as a result of an avalanche. 

A search and rescue operation had been under way since late Saturday, with the participation of the fire brigade, a helicopter, drones and volunteers. 
The three climbers, aged 50-55 and considered experienced in ice climbing, according to media reports, set off on Saturday morning to climb near Kalavrita Ski Resort. 
When night fell, the ski resort, realising the trio had not returned as their car was still parked there, alerted the authorities.&nbsp;Weather conditions were good but rescuers saw signs of avalanche at the area where the bodies were found Sunday afternoon, around three kilometres (2 miles) away from the resort. 
- Aerial and ground searches under way from the early morning hours detected the traces of an avalanche, a very large one, at the base of the slope. Most likely, this avalanche swept away the climbers in their attempt to approach the desired route - Kalavrita Ski Resort said in a Facebook post on Sunday.

The three climbers, aged 50-55 and considered experienced in ice climbing, according to media reports, set off on Saturday morning to climb near Kalavrita Ski Resort

A search and rescue operation had been under way since late Saturday, with the participation of the fire brigade, a helicopter, drones and volunteers

Three climbers dead in Greece

Nine people died in three days of more than 100 avalanches rolling across Austria, authorities said Sunday. Most of the avalanches hit the western Tyrol region and Friday alone saw five fatalities, rescue services said. 
Police said that incident had claimed the lives of a group of Swedish skiers going off-piste with a mountain guide in the zone around Ischgl, near the Swiss border.
The monitor and four of the group were swept away with just one group member surviving. He managed to call for help and was airlifted out by helicopter.
Also Friday, a man aged 60 and his wife of 61 were engulfed while cross country skiing near the village of Auffach, Tyrol police said.
Saturday then saw an Austrian aged 58 killed at Schirmn near Innsbruck in an avalanche which injured four others. Further west, an experienced skier of 43 was killed in the popular Vorarlberg region as Austria saw exceptional quantities of snow fall going into and across the weekend.
Five winter sports enthusiasts were buried by snowfall in the major resort of Soelden but were all rescued.
- The past three days have seen some 100 avalanche-type incidents requiring 70 interventions - Tyroo regional authorities said Sunday, dubbing the situation "unprecedented" and warning of more to come.
Recent years have seen avalanches claim around 20 lives a year in Austria, fewer over the past two years after the pandemic vastly reduced skier numbers.

Recent years have seen avalanches claim around 20 lives a year in Austria, fewer over the past two years after the pandemic vastly reduced skier numbers

Rescue workers stand at the Rettenbach glacier near Soelden after five winter sports enthusiasts were rescued after being hit by an avalanche

Nine dead as hundred avalanches roll over Austria

The US economy added 467,000 jobs in January, well above market estimates, but the unemployment rate rose to 4%, the Department of Labor announced on Friday.

Market estimates were for nonfarm payrolls to see an increase of 150,000 last month.
Job additions for December were revised up strongly to 510,000, from 199,000, according to data by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.&nbsp;The unemployment rate, on the other hand, increased by 0.1 percentage point to 4% in January.The market expectation for the unemployment rate was to remain unchanged from December’s 3.9%.&nbsp;The number of unemployed individuals in the US increased to 6.5 million in January, from 6.3 million the month before.Due to the coronavirus pandemic, more than 22 million people in the world’s largest economy lost their jobs in March and April 2020.&nbsp;President Joe Biden said in a press conference later that the US economy has created 6.6 million jobs since he took office just over a year ago.He also noted that the economy during that period has shown the strongest recovery in 40 years as it came back from the pandemic.
- Vaccinations and boosters are proven incredibly effective - he said, noting that the US rolled out tens of millions of at-home tests delivered to American households for free during the past month.
- Wages are up this year - Biden said, but added "Gas and food prices are up," and argued that his economic plan would ease long-term inflationary pressures.

Number of unemployed people rose to 6.5M last month despite December job additions being revised up strongly

Due to the coronavirus pandemic, more than 22 million people in the world’s largest economy lost their jobs in March and April 2020.

US adds 467,000 jobs in January, but unemployment rises to 4%

Last night, Fahrudin Radončić, president of the Alliance for a Better Future (Savez za bolju budućnost SBB), Elmedin Konaković, president of the People and Justice (Narod i Pravda NiP), and Alma Čolo, member of the Presidency of the Party of Democratic Action (SDA) were guests of Senad Hadžifejzović's show "Centralni dnevnik" on Face television.
The backbone of the talks were the negotiations that were held in Neum under the auspices of the international community, more precisely the United States of America and the European Union.
In the introduction, Radončić explained regarding the criticism that negotiations should be conducted in state institutions, that it is not a matter of where negotiations are conducted.
- It is not a matter of where we negotiate, it is important that there are predispositions for an agreement, that everything must end in Parliament. None of us thought that we were working outside the institutions of BiH - said Radončić.

<h2>Radončić, Konaković and Ogrešević defended the civic concept</h2>

Hadžifejzović was interested in what was happening in Neum.
- I think that there were very principled talks, very direct talks, I think it is very good that NiP and people from the SDA came. I think Mr. Konaković is doing a very good thing. You know, it is easy for Mr. Nikšić, Kojović, I don't know, Forto, to throw stones at Izetbegović when he is not there, or Čović. Sit down, guys, if you have that thing, look into Mr. Čović's face and tell him. Look into Mr. Izetbegović's face and tell him. Konaković, Ogrešević and Radončić sat there completely normally, and came to the situation of defending the civic concept more than those who have been collecting political or election points because of that over the years - said Radončić.
Konaković emphasized that it was crucial to come to Neum.
- We prefer to continue negotiations. The organizers of the negotiations are the representatives of the American Embassy and Mr. Palmer, as a special envoy, and somehow it was not possible for me to refuse that invitation, wherever it happened. The talks were "hard", difficult and were the crown of a process that lasted for years. Today, I even prefer that we showed up and I think that colleagues from the civic bloc had to show up there, so that foreigners can see how much this civic concept has come to life, at least in the part where Bosniaks are the majority - said Konaković.
Alma Čolo emphasized that this was a unique opportunity to implement the judgments of international courts in the BiH Constitution.
- To ensure the conduct of elections in accordance with European standards. They have put the integrity of the election process in the first place – Čolo pointed out.
Radončić said that they did not adopt the integrity of the elections…
- We have not adopted something called the integrity of the elections, the whole package. At the meeting of the opposition, where we all signed that the integrity of the elections must be resolved first, in order for us to participate in further work, electronic voter records are envisaged. They thought they'd get us through this, and I reacted and said, "Wait, we didn't make a deal like this." The CEC gave an interpretation for these elections, our public, just like we are Biafra, is not ready to have electronic elections, but we will do it for the local elections in two years, and thus foreigners practically participated in the fraud. Because the CEC is, I said there, a politicized organization. Two SDS members, two HDZ members and one of Komšić's advisers are part of CEC, and they estimate that we as a nation are not mature enough to have fair and honest elections. Elections as we have in Serbia, Montenegro, Northern Macedonia and so on. And that point passed as a kind of honorable exit that we adopted it in part, but we raised our hand and said "wait a minute" - said Radončić.

Konaković added that without the whole package, nothing can be partially adopted.
- There is one quick implementation of some untested software. We must have regular, lawful, legal elections. This is also a two-thirds amendment of the Constitution. My general impression is that the HDZ does not want to make a deal, to conduct negotiations, so they were not happy when these concrete solutions of international mediators came. I think that the tension with Komšić benefits them to the extent that they mobilized everything else and that they won dozens of positions and that they killed pluralism in the Croatian corps - said Konaković.
Čolo added that the SDA is in favor of deleting the prefix.
- It is a step towards the future of BiH. The agreement suits us. They blame Izetbegović for not making proposals, we gave all the proposals to eliminate discrimination. Whoever advocates for the Croatian people to elect a Croatian member of the Presidency, let him propose that - said Čolo.
The president of SBB explained that the strategic Croat-Bosniak relations are being resolved, which are in big trouble and that the participants in the negotiations in Neum from the Bosniak Corps are under a heavy burden.
- This is the tip of the iceberg - Election Law. And now we have a problem, and when we take a little genesis, why foreigners, why we have to use the authority of foreigners… We must have their attention, because when you look, in 1992, the Croats helped us on March 1st. Well, then we had the Washington Agreement, so we had Dayton, it is very important that Bosniaks and Croats have settled relations. We now have some demands from them that are maximalist - said Radončić.

<h2>The SBB leader and Čović polemicized three times</h2>

He added that he had polemicized with Čović three times.
- And three times the Venice Commission sided with me. They demanded that, when a member of the Presidency is elected, the Club of Bosniak or Croat Delegates decide whether he will be confirmed or removed. And then there is a conflict of two legitimacies, indirect and direct. And I told Čović that for the first, second and third time, and he never wanted to give up. The Venice Commission has said every time that my interpretation is correct. Someone who received 200-300 thousand cannot be overthrown by the members of the Croatian club, in which you have a majority of eight people who were indirectly elected. The candidate who won the largest number of electoral votes on the list was elected a member of the Presidency, and who is than confirmed by the Bosniak delegates of the House of Peoples of the Federation Parliament and the Croat ones. And after the third arbitration of the people from the Venice Commission who were at our disposal, Dragan gave up. I said every time: "Dragan, we cannot accept this." Imagine now, SBB is a leading party, which is not good for SBB, SDA is a very strong infrastructure party. Theoretically, the SBB candidate appears, gets 200-300 thousand votes, you have the majority in the House of Peoples, take that man down and appoint another. Why did the Croats want that, they went for the variant, if Komšić wins, they will appoint Čović, but these are things unacceptable from the position of legalism - Radončić explained.
Hadžifejzović asked if it was true that Izetbegović was mostly silent, which Radončić and Konaković denied and said that very exhaustive negotiations had been conducted until late at night and that the fight for the state had no alternative.
- That is the good side of our synergy. It is not a coalition. But this was very reflexive and justifies why we should have been there and why we had to talk - said Konaković.
Radončić said that the mistake of the international community, which is a participant is in the wrong approach.
- They constantly went to the SDA and HDZ for five years, so that they could agree on that. You others, you will say yes, you will join and so on. And now they have seen the benefits for the first time when other parties come to participate in the process. They have the Mostar agreement, which they did not implement, on constitutivity and so on. The relationship between Čović and Izetbegović is on the verge of personal antagonism. I’m not sure these two men want to agree on anything. Such is the atmosphere at the negotiations. I will always defend Bakir that he was very active in these negotiations. We stayed until 3 in the morning and consulted with each other. But I'm not sure you have another burden of negotiations. We have elected Mr. Komšić as a member of the Presidency of BiH three times, with the option to do so for the fourth time. It is a great thing for Croats that they cannot get over. So, the situation is too serious to be resolved in one session of three days - said Radončić and added that Čović and Izetbegović got tired of each other, that is, that there is no more material left.

<h2>Coalition for the defense of Bosnia and Herzegovina</h2>

The leader of SBB commented on Izetbegović's statement that he was surprised by the moves of Radončić, Konaković and Ogrešević in Neum.
- Bakir says he is surprised. Well that's an insult. I was in Sarajevo every day of the war. What are you surprised by? Bakir compliments us for another, very precise reason, but Bakir is in fear, he needs as wide a front as possible, because then he is not a radical. We have Dino, Radončić, Ogrešević, which is politically legitimate and wise on his part, he snuck in among all of us. He will take the result for himself, let him take it, but only to reach an agreement.
Konaković added that this is not the time for a "digitron"..
- This calculation by not making decisions has led to 100-150 thousand people leaving BiH every year. One whole city disappears. I especially told Čović and Izetbegović that, together with Dodik, they have the greatest responsibility. We are now emerging as mediators. At the end of the negotiations, Čović said: "I will respond if Radončić and Konaković call me." Well, now we shouldn't call. Of course, we will call because these times require courageous decisions, we do not have that at the moment - Konaković added.
Čolo stated that Izetbegović has been asking the international community for a year to involve other parties in the negotiations. Konaković said that they heard in Neum that the SDA and HDZ had met several times and that the processes were being conducted.
Radončić emphasized that this is a coalition, but only when it comes to the defense of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
- We performed here in a very unique and synchronized way. There can be no opposition to what is called the defense of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Let the stories about the party's coalitions be resolved in the elections. That story is over - said Radončić.
Konaković said that overnight his family and he and party members were destigmatized because of Izetbegović's statements, and reiterated Radončić's words that they are not a coalition nor do they intend to be in a coalition. They underlined that there was no coalition with the SDA and that there were no talk about it in Neum.
- Mr. Čović told us, we are not resolving the issue of Dragan Čović because I will not run for a member of the Presidency of BiH. Konaković said very politely from the side: "Dragan, do I hear well and can I quote that?" And then Mr. Džaferović said: "I will not be a candidate either." And that was explained - "I have been advocating for 10 years for the Bosniak-Croat dialogue, to reach a solution. If we do not reach a solution, this policy is dead, someone else will come. Even if we agree, I have solved my problem and I can withdraw in peace." Then Džaferović said:" I will not run either," I said, it is already known about me, and I then I asked: "Bakir, you are not going to run either?" Bakir did not say anything - Radončić recounted.
The leader of SBB said that Čović made the situation even more difficult with his speech in the NARS.
- After such difficult sentences, even if they are taken out of context, you can't get so much out of context, it's not like you said, it made mediation difficult for the two of us tomorrow. Because the same Bakir will say, look, they are bringing Dragan like this, whose gears broke somewhere. He obviously has some maximalist goal, "I want to get a Croatian member of the Presidency", I quote him, "in the option that it is 100 percent". There is no democracy where someone can guarantee someone a 100 percent choice. And that is the cause of all the problems. We do not want to majorize Croats. We do not want to elect their member of the Presidency of BiH. Dragan certainly does not help us with that exclusivity. He has one sentence that is correct, I personally expected when it comes to leading the process, because the SDA has the personnel potential to offer those ideas, Dragan offers something, we say he can't, we offer, he says, well, I just I can not. This slowly became the position of the entire Croatian corps. They gathered around their national council and are acting together - said Radončić.

<h2>Milanović is reducing us to the people he will order, he will not be able to do that!</h2>

Konaković added that there is no political pluralism in the Croatian corps, that they act homogenously. Hadžifejzović reiterated statements by Croatian politicians that, even if no agreement is reached on the Election Law, there is a module for a third entity.
- Anyone who thinks he can create a third entity is doing the greatest damage to the Croatian people. It will not work for us or for the Croats. The Washington agreement was not made because someone wanted it for no reason. Here, the international community strongly insists that Croats and Bosniaks must stay together. To be stronger towards RS and for Bosniaks not to be alone. The international community has used much stronger levers and pressures in the past. Here is the responsibility of the international community. We can, and we have done that, say "gentlemen Croats, we understand you here", we understand that others should not choose your member of the Presidency, but these are red lines, where we cannot give in. But the international community must take responsibility. It is very bad for us when one media outlet attacks Schmidt, and in the end it turns out that they did not do that. These talks failed because there was no systematic conduct of the process for three days. The first point is the election standard. I expect the continuation, even if we can determine the red lines, which is an alternative to the negotiations - said Radončić.
Konaković added that it should be said who rejected the agreement.
- Negotiations should continue because of the agreement, and not because of the pressure of some HNS on the third entity. You have, on the other hand, a brave negotiating position of people who came ready to say - well, we think it's not fair, everything else is. I listened to terrible messages from Zagreb on HRT. I do not want to comment on Milanović. They say two or three times that Komšić was not constitutionally elected - said Konaković.

SDA Presidency member Alma Čolo said that Izetbegović asked the international community to include other parties in the negotiations throughout the negotiations

Radončič, Konaković, Čolo and Hadžifejzović

Radončić and Konaković: Defense of BiH has no alternative, we will not form a coalition with SDA, there will be no third entity

The leader of the Alliance for a Better Future of BiH (Savez za bolju budućnost SBB), Fahrudin Radončić, addressed the media after the negotiations on changes to the BiH Election Law ended.
- I must say that all parties - SDA, NiP, SBB, NES - were very united in not allowing them to strengthen ethnically in relation to the state of Bosnia and Herzegovina. We had a lot of suggestions, and we made the greatest result in raising the preservation of the integrity of the elections. We have diagnosed everything where we disagree. As you can see, conditionally speaking, this pro-Bosnian delegation or Bosniak delegation was very united - said Radončić.

<h2>There are no winners in the negotiations</h2>

He said that he saw some inscriptions stating that the negotiators in Neum were dealing with Karađorđe's betrayal.
- Unfortunately, I responsibly tell you that the fact that we did not agree best shows that we protected a multiethnic, democratic Bosnia and Herzegovina, with full care to really enable the Croatian people to sovereignly choose their authentic representative, but fulfilling this real demand cannot be to the detriment multiethnic and what is called the crossing of some red lines, for which we were not ready - Radončić added.
When asked who is the winner of the negotiations, the leader of SBB said that there are no winners of the negotiations.
- There are no winners in the negotiations, I think we are all defeated with such an epilogue, that we do not have a proposal for legal solutions that would be adopted in BiH institutions. All this can further complicate the already very complicated relations between Croats and Bosniaks - Radončić explained.

<h2> As a responsible man, I do not want to diminish the result</h2>

He said that there is an option for domestic factors, if there are elements from the SDA and HDZ, to bring their own views closer together, saying that they must negotiate.
- As a responsible man, I do not want to diminish the result, it is a great thing that we have diagnosed problems, listed the checklist of where we agree and where we disagree, but I am not optimistic. If we had not come up with a solution that we would offer to the Parliamentary Assembly with such strong foreign mediators, it would be difficult for us to do it alone.
I am telling the citizens that I have been participating in these negotiations since Brussels, Prague, this has been going on for ten years now, and that nothing dramatic is happening. The elections will be held and we will see that we harmonize these relations as much as possible. The weaker the Bosniak-Croat relations, the stronger Mr. Dodik becomes. That is not our goal and we will know how to adapt here - said Radončić.
He explained in sports jargon that they are close to an agreement, but at the same time far away.
- This was an electoral system that is very potent and I think we should work on it, but at this moment, due to some protective mechanisms that the Croats were looking for, we could not accept it. I hope that we will bring our views closer together and that is one of the great potentials of future negotiations - added the leader of SBB, who did not want to give details.

The weaker the Bosniak-Croat relations, the stronger Mr. Dodik becomes. That is not our goal and we will know how to adapt, said Radončić

Radončić: The pro-Bosnian delegation was united, we protected a multiethnic, democratic BiH

Bakir Alispahić, a man on the US blacklist, is hiding how much his companies are taking from the dedicated brokerage industry. While Bosniaks rightly expect everyone to stop doing business with companies associated with Milorad Dodik, that does not apply to Bakir Alispahić.
Alispahić in the Federation of BiH has no sanctions or consequences in doing business even with state-owned companies.
After the announcement of new US sanctions against individuals in BiH, the big question that remains is the relationship between the government and state-owned companies when it comes to giving jobs to the "new alispahić's". And does that mean that the Federation of BiH is consciously questioning the credibility of the United States? Especially if you read the explanation why Alispahić was blacklisted in the USA.

He is a man who has been on the US blacklist for more than two decades due to ties with Iranian services, and who was put on the list by the administration of then US President Bill Clinton because of his key role in forming the illegal terrorist camp in Pogorelica. The Americans imposed sanctions on him for organizing and participating in the function of this Iranian camp, where foreign murderers were trained in warfare and killing, which the BiH authorities permanently claimed did not exist. The camp was closed after the intervention of the American military forces in the beginning of 1996.
This former police officer and intelligence officer, a KOS member and many other things, during the war was in the highest military and police structures. At the time of the formation of the Iranian camp "Pogorelica", Alispahić was the Minister of the Ministry of the Interior of BiH.
In addition to all off that, according to reliable sources, Alispahić's network has not only not been sanctioned, but has expanded and let go its tentacles even in the dedicated industry.
The question is whether the Americans will strengthen the sanctions against Alispahić and ask the domestic authorities to respect them at the level of BiH as well? A parallel can be drawn here with ATV, a television close to Dodik, because Bakir Alispahić also has a portal with two names, NAP and Patria, which he directly controls by presenting his driver as its founder.
Similar to Dodik's case, they send threatening messages through this portal to anyone who wants to reconsider Alispahić's bestender business.

<h2>State and cantonal prosecutor's offices have work to do</h2>

It is commendable that SDP, Naša stranka and SBB in Tuzla Canton ultimately demanded that Mirsad Kukić leave the leadership position from the PDA leadership, in order to show deep respect for the multidimensional significance and importance of respecting the sanctions imposed by official Washington.
The question here is - knowing that both the SDA and the DF - have the same sensibility and responsibility for sanctioning individuals and their blacklisted businesses, will there be a process of serious questioning of Alispahić's treatment?
There is obviously enough work here for both state and cantonal prosecutors.
Senad Šahinpašić Šaja and the late Hasan Čengić, who are under US sanctions, could not do business at all, they even had problems opening personal giro accounts to receive a pension, and all this never applied to Alispahić, who even appointed his son as the head of the Supervisory Board of a dedicated industry factory.

While Bosniaks rightly expect everyone to stop doing business with companies associated with Milorad Dodik, this does not apply to Bakir Alispahić

Bakir Alispahić: His network has released tentacles even in the dedicated industry

Why doesn't anyone in the Federation respect American sanctions against Alispahić?

If so then facts that come from Dr Nevenka Tromp’s seminal book, The Unfinished Trial, published in 2016 (Routledge) may be of help. The book was historically accurate and prescient. But it is not clear to me that either its view of the past or its forecast for the future have gained the attention in Bosnia due to them.

Before getting to the truths in her book, three other things.
Dr Tromp and I found ourselves involved in three scandals that demonstrate the difficulty of getting access for the public to material relevant to Bosnia’s past and future and – sorry to say – the difficulty of getting Bosnians to use material once it is accessible.

<h2>The terrible crisis of the 1990s</h2>

First, the Supreme Defence Council Records which were largely obscured from public view by a strange decision of the Prosecutor at the ICTY. Dr Tromp and I went as far as we could, maybe at some personal risk, to expose the process that had allowed this to happen.&nbsp;The unseen parts of the documents were thought - in public discussion in Bosnia - to be the answers to the shortcomings of the ICJ genocide Judgment. By chance, they became available later in another trial. And it seemed then that almost no one analysed them (quite hard work, by the way) for the strong public debate that should have followed. Interest in them had died.&nbsp;Second, intercepts of phone calls between Milošević and Mladić at the time of Srebrenica. I took steps to publicise their existence, the need for them to be made available and (to the extent I could) how they had been suppressed.&nbsp;Follow-up from those citizens in Bosnia whose interests would have been served by the intercepts? Little - none.Third, at the end of 2016 Dr Tromp and I were drawn into a venture to suggest that President Bakir Izetbegović was doing his best to correct the ICJ Judgment, when he wasn’t. Who knows what was going on. Not Dr Tromp and me. The document filed at the ICJ on behalf of Bosnia and its people has never been made public. Why not? It might lead to something significant about the overall history that caused the President to act as he did.&nbsp;Are Bosnia and its citizens doing enough now - before the moment is lost for ever - to correct the history and drive those who determine Bosnia’s future to work with hard facts. If they expect others to do everything for them they are poor judges of other governments and even of individuals. Bosnia’s terrible crisis of the 1990s is history now. Students at universities in the UK, for example, often enough don’t know where and what the former Yugoslavia was or what happened at Srebrenica.&nbsp;And when they read about it - if they do – competing accounts pop up and why should they automatically choose the Bosnian version? Especially when the 30- and 40-years olds playing chess for their governments with the pieces of the former Yugoslavia can see such advantages in letting the RS become part of the Serbia proper.Serbia sees itself as a winner even when it loses. And everybody loves a winner. Does Bosnia see itself as a winner? If Serbia had a book full of straightforward facts as shown in Dr Tromps book but on Serbia’s side, it would use them well and draw on other sources to prove the same essential points. Has Bosnia done that?&nbsp;I quote some passages at length for readers to take the time to read and about which to think. On P268 (English language hardback version) she explains:

- Although Milošević and his associates avoided any explicit mention of Greater Serbia, their policy of "All Serbs in a Single State" in the 1990s and Greater Serbia plans were very similar.Milošević had been selected (initially by Serbs in Kosovo) to lead this project of which he was not the creator. He was not even the person who revived the project – and he barely dared to speak its name. The long process of that revival had initially been driven by others who were not inclined to climb into the driver's seat of the vehicle – call it a train - they had fired up and re-started.Milošević was in a sense simply the driver of the train, although a very willing driver once he had his hands on the controls. The train's progress was blocked by defeats: in Croatia with Operations 'Flash' and 'Storm', in Bosnia when the Dayton Peace Agreement allowed for the existence of Republika Srpska but blocked its immediate annexation by Serbia; in Kosovo when NATO took sides and bombed Serbia into its loss of Kosovo that achieved its surprising independence. But the train was not derailed.&nbsp;Train driver Milošević was pushed off the footplate as the train slowed down. The train did not stop. It has not stopped. It is rolling still.
- Or, to quit the analogy, the Serb State project is not dead and might never die. It assumes ever new forms – reduced or enlarged – depending on internal and external circumstances. The tragedy for the other unconsidered ethnicities is that Serbia's ideology can only ever be realised through new territorial borders drawn by violence, probably mass violence.

<h2> A project that brought even more bloodshed</h2>

Do those who determine Bosnia's future take account of this? If not Bosnian Muslims must force them to because the rest of us cannot do this for Bosnia, for you.P269 "The most alarming conclusion, on one reckoning, may be that even if the international community understood the danger of the Serbian State project this did not stop the project being afforded some support coming as the inevitable consequence of determined international resistance to creation of a Muslim state on the heart of Europe. Better, it might be thought, to tolerate an unfortunate but Christian project that has brought wars and may bring more bloodshed than to see strong Muslim entities in Europe - Milošević’s /Green Transversal- from Bosnia through Kosovo, Albania and Macedonia towards."The same points apply. Is Bosnia pressing this issue?P275 "A number of Serbia’s current political elites see the Serbian state project as unfinished business and hope yet to change the western borders of the state, to encompass Republika Srpska. In fact, in 2013, Prime Minister Dačić publicly reiterated the importance for Serbia of insuring preservation of the Bosnian entity, calling it even more important for Serbia than Kosovo."The last fact takes us back to the 1990s and to these two maps, produced by the demography department of the ICTY and used in lectures by Dr Tromp as one of the easiest ways to explain how the Bosnian tragedy happened by killing Bosnians and by forcing them to leave a land of diversity that was their home.

The maps show both that and why people – Bosnians and Croats – were ethnically cleansed and murdered. But they should be generating for politicians a slightly more pressing universal human question. What would any of those Muslims who were forced out from the blue, green, pale pink bits on the first map that the war in Bosnia turned red in time for the second map to be drawn answer to the question: "Where is your home?"I cannot be sure but I expect home is where you were born and where your roots are.&nbsp;So why – again something covered in Dr Tromp’s book, at page 269 and a point no one made before she did with such force:

- The most notable and concrete of a cluster of associated conclusions is that whatever the international community’s underlying motivations may have been, its invariable response to a Balkan problem was ethnic separation.

I periodically wonder how much or how little the diplomats in the foreign ministries of the big countries, to whom the Western Balkans is a bit of a game but who likely determine Bosnia’s fate - on their two or so year circulations in and out of foreign ministry desks of countries of minor importance - actually know of the real Bosnian history, even the 1990s history. As Dr Tromp has asked the world to note:&nbsp;- Witnesses testified that the rumoured partition agreed to as early as the 1991 Karađorđevo meeting had actually enjoyed European support, because Europe was not prepared to allow the formation of a unitary BiH, with a Muslim majority. This – it must be recalled – preceded any significant ethnic violence. Further highly persuasive evidence of European support for this proposed ethnic division can be found in what those who may have supported it in 1991 did in subsequent years. In the period from February 1992 to December 1995, international negotiators proposed five peace plans, all of which were based to varying degrees on the principle of ethnic separation.&nbsp;The first, the Cutileiro Peace Plan – proposed almost one year after the Karađorđevo meeting and two months before war broke out in BiH – evoked the arrangement Tuđman and Milošević had reportedly discussed at Karađorđevo.&nbsp;Ethnic separation of BiH was also the basis of the Vance-Owen Peace Plan of 1993, which proposed the creation of ten cantons. During negotiations for the Vance-Owen Plan, violence escalated as Serbs and Croats fought for more territory, anticipating that it would be awarded to them at the negotiating table. Instead, negotiations failed by mid-1993, as they did for two subsequent peace proposals: the Owen-Stoltenberg Peace Plan of 1993 and the Contact Group Peace Plan of 1994, each of which was premised on ethnic separation.Why has this point not been pushed down the throats of every damned foreigner who dares not say, for example, to Northern Ireland’s Catholic Republican Army (IRA) supporters and those in Northern Ireland of Catholic faith: "Just pack up your belongings and move across the border to the Southern Republic of Ireland; the map will be much tidier and all you Catholics can be in one place and all we Protestants in another with England Wales and Scotland". That is never proposed – not even thought of - for the British problem (and ask similar questions about the Basques, perhaps) – because it would be inhumane. So – push the point deeper down their throats – "Why from the start did you treat the Muslims of Bosnia as inhuman and entitled not to humanity but the reverse. Why did you say to the Muslims of Bosnia "Bad luck that you cannot answer to the question "where is your home?".

One last point that I, as a UK "Brit", can make more easily than others. It is well known, and accepted by many scholars, that Great Britain did not halt Serb aggression against Bosnia because policy makers in Whitehall wanted Serbia and its proxies in Bosnia to prevail.&nbsp;Britain, for the most part, led an international 'consensus' which, between the summer of 1991 and 1995, benefited the Serb regimes in Belgrade and Pale, respectively, at the expense of the interests of the Bosnian government and other proponents of a multi-cultural society in Bosnia-Herzegovina.
Bosnia was entitled to the laurels of victory not for what happened in an unequal battle of military hardware but because it was attacked without justification by a criminal state and criminal quasi state.&nbsp;Bosnia must tell the world that and force the world to say it back to Bosnia. Bosnia will finally be the victor and justice can start to be done.

How would any of those Muslims who were forced out answer the question, "Where is your home?"

Nice: Bosnia had the right to a laurel wreath as a sign of victory

Former Hague tribunal prosecutor Geoffrey Nice for "Dnevni avaz" (Part II): What BiH must tell the world

The viewers of the most watched TV show in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the "Centralni dnevnik" Face TV, in a twenty-day telephone poll, decided with their calls that Fahrudin Radončić is a political figure in 2021.
Radončić got as many as 5,033 votes by phone calls from viewers of the most famous television in BiH, while a well-known lawyer, anti-vaxer and president of BOSS, Mirnes Ajanović, got 1852 votes and ended up in second place. In third place is the well-known RS opposition leader, Vojin Mijatović, with 640 votes.
By the way, Radončić's interview on this television, on YouTube alone had 225,818 views.
Viewers could also vote for Draško Stanivuković (13), Aleksandar Vučić (18), Nermin Nikšić (67), Dragan Mektić (81), Benjamina Karić (98), Elmedin Konaković (140), Nenad Čanko (189), Haris Silajdžić (198), Nebojša Vukanović (278), Željko Komšić (379), Mirsad Hadžikadić (410) and Zlatko Miletić (524). 
Take a look at the table below, and see how many votes each political leader and political figure in Bosnia and Herzegovina received individually.

Radončić got as many as 5,033 votes by phone calls from viewers of the most famous television in BiH, while a well-known lawyer, anti-vaxer and president of BOSS, Mirnes Ajanović got 1852 votes and ended up in second place

Fahrudin Radončić: Political figure of the year

Radončić was convincingly chosen as the political figure of the year in BiH

Osman Mehmedagić Osmica, Director of the Intelligence and Security Agency (ISA) of BiH, spent 300,000 KM more than he earned, according to the financial investigation ordered by the Prosecutor's Office of B&amp;H, "Avaz" portal reveals.

<h2>He did not withdraw money from his account at all</h2>

Mehmedagić paid 120,000 KM in cash to Šaćir Čedić, the owner of the "Vatra" cafe chain in Sarajevo, for the house he bought from him in 2017. It is a house of 94.40 square meters, located in Posavska Street in Sarajevo.
About 160,000 KM was spent on the renovation of the house and the construction of the pool.
In addition, Mehmedagić paid Asim Sarajlić, an SDA delegate in the House of Peoples of Bosnia and Herzegovina and a member of the Joint Commission for Supervision of ISA's work, about 40,000 KM for an Audi Q5 car which he bought for his wife Amela Šehović.
All these data were determined by a financial expert and a police agency that conducted the investigation.
Mehmedagić did not withdraw the invested money from the account at all, and the investigation established that he could not even earn it. He paid in cash to renovate the house and the car.

However, the head of the secret service, who is under investigation by the Prosecutor's Office of B&amp;H due to suspicion of forgery of a diploma and abuse of office, did not report this money at all.
This is undeclared income that is not taxed. In this way, it is suspected that he committed the crime of tax evasion because he paid everything in cash, not with the money from his account.
However, the question is where the ISA Director Mehmedagić got all this money from. It was previously established that he did not withdraw his salary from the account. The income he earns as a director cannot cover all the costs he obviously has or has had. 
We remind you that in 2018. our newspaper published that the director of ISA hid from whom and at what price he bought two properties in Sarajevo, whether the payment was made from his current account to the seller's account and whether the FB&amp;H Tax Administration assessed the property and whether he paid real estate transfer tax.

<h2>To whom did they buy real estate</h2>

It was recently revealed that criminals discovered by the Sky app to individuals in police and intelligence circles, in order to protect them from prosecution, were buying various real estate and cars. Some of them, such as the first suspect Bojan Cvijetić, former adviser to Dragan Mektić in the Ministry of Security, communicated directly with Mehmedagić's first associates.
In Cvijetić's case, to make the matter more indicative, secret ISA data was found during the search and arrest. These are data from foreign services on drug gangs in the Western Balkans, which were obtained by ISA, ended up with drug dealer Cvijetić.

<h2>Some names could shock the public</h2>

According to the information that "Avaz" has, there are dozens of people in Sarajevo, but also in Banja Luka, who bought apartments on Bjelaćnica, and Jahorina mountains, and in Sarajevo and Banja Luka. And all in elite facilities. In addition, vehicles were purchased. Mostly jeeps. The question is who got all the cash. That is why the Prosecutor's Office ordered a financial investigation in this part.
Some names could shock the public. Especially buildings where they have real estate.

He paid all real estate in cash, as well as the renovation of the house of 94.40 square meters, located in Posavska Street

ISA Director Osman Mehmedagić spent 300,000 KM more than he earned

Outsiders, like me, must be cautious before saying anything to a troubled nation like Bosnia, a war-weary and – now - war-fearful place.&nbsp;Better to stick, cautiously, to facts of which I can speak. Nothing else.My ICTY experience is already almost 16 years stale and involvement in Bosnian matters since then has been intermittent. Looking back, those details on which trial attorneys and judges must concentrate seem now either unimportant or invisible. The broad outlines of Bosnia’s tragedy fill the mind; and with them broad but conclusions of which I am certain beyond any reasonable doubt.

<h2>They may can choose to forget Bosnia</h2>

A first conclusion of which I am certain is that there will be no contentment in your land if its history is not accurately recorded.

A second conclusion of which I am similarly certain is that the Serbs – in Serbia and in Bosnia itself - were and are to blame. There was and is absolutely no reason or excuse for what was done to the Bosnian Muslims in the 1990s by the Bosnian Serbs and Serbia itself, something all know but that those with power to help Bosnia may choose to forget.
A third similar certainty – well a very high probability – is that the ICTY process, well-intentioned as it may have been, may not have worked that well for Bosnia.
To my surprise I have come to ask whether trying individuals – and the ICTY can only try individuals – from all sides of conflicts is really such a good idea. It seemed "fair" at the time – whatever "fair" may mean. But fair to whom and with what consequences?After WWI the Kaiser was given sanctuary in the Netherlands and there were a few rather feeble war crimes trials of Germans in Leipzig. After WWII at Yalta Churchill wanted to have the Nazi leadership shot or imprisoned without trial. Roosevelt wanted public trials and Stalin agreed with Roosevelt on grounds that Russians liked public trials for propaganda purposes. The Head of counter-espionage at the UK’s security service MI5 (Liddell) explained some of the UK’s reasoning at the time the Nuremberg trials were being planned:
- Personally I think the whole procedure is quite dreadful. The (chief prosecutor) had recommended that a fact-finding committee should come to the conclusion that certain people should be "bumped off" (murdered) and that others should receive varying terms of imprisonment, that this should be put to the House of Commons and that the authority should be given to any military body finding these individuals in their area to arrest them and inflict whatever punishment had been decided on. This was a much clearer proposition and would not bring the law into disrepute...It seems to me that we are just being dragged down to the level of the travesties of justice that have been taking place in the USSR for the past 20 years.&nbsp;

<h2>The victor will always be the judge</h2>

He then visited the trial of the main defendants in Nuremberg and wrote

- One cannot escape the feeling that most of the things the 21 are accused of having done over a period of 14 years, the Russians have done over a period of 28 years. This adds considerably to the somewhat phoney (false/fraudulent/sham) atmosphere of the whole proceedings and leads me to the point which in a way worries me most, namely, that the court is one of the victors who have framed their own charter, their own procedure and their own rules of evidence in order to deal with the vanquished.One of those on trial, Nazi Reichsmarschall Göring felt rather the same, saying, while waiting his fate:&nbsp;- The victor will always be the judge, and the vanquished the accused.Yet, in many ways, Nuremberg worked well. Let me explain, but first a couple of sentences about football, of which I know nothing.
In any football match, team members may do bad things, get yellow cards or red cards and be sent off. Even the captain can be sent off for what he, as an individual, did. But if their team wins then, in the end, that is all that matters. There is always a difference between teams as entities and their members. Had the ICTY tried teams – countries, quasi-states like the RS, even perhaps paramilitary groups like "Arkan’s Tigers" or "The Scorpions" and not just individuals its value might have been very different.
I never thought this way during the trials in the Hague although those working there for the UN regularly reckoned how a trial of a leader was to some extent trial of the entity that the leader led. But only to an extent.
Since the unsatisfactory 2007 decision in the Bosnia-Serbia Genocide Convention case at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) I have done one or two things, sometimes with Dr Nevenka Tromp who had worked with me on the Milošević case, aimed at helping Bosnia, although nothing really worked. That, and other things, set me thinking along these lines and to questioning whether victor’s justice might not necessarily have been a bad thing for Bosnia and other parts of the former Yugoslavia. Dayton happened 26 years ago.&nbsp;The Nazis surrendered to the Allies in the spring of 1945. I went to university in the UK a mere 19 years later. At my university, where I studied philosophy and politics, WWII was never spoken of - in lectures or tutorials or among friends. It had been a war where we, with the USA, Russia and others, were among the "all-virtuous" victors. Of course it was not like that in reality.&nbsp;There were unresolved possibly criminal acts such as the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in the Japanese war and the carpet-bombing of Dresden in Europe, none of which has ever been properly investigated as possible war crimes. And, it is reasonable to assume, there may have been criminal acts against enemy soldiers and civilians by individual Allied service personnel or units. But they seem never to have come to light. The black and white image of good and evil worked well in all ways for us.&nbsp;With the war behind us, to the east was the Iron Curtain, shielding us from the evil of the different political and economic system functioning behind it, mostly under Soviet control. And to the west was the USA.So it was that, from the end of the war we had been able to look both backwards and forwards with certainty in the rightness of our society. We northern Europeans – the UK for example – prospered and developed. Curiously, so too did Germany, also certain, not certain of being in the right but of being in the wrong.

Certainty of a nation’s virtue brings benefits, it seems. Uncertainty does not. Victor’s justice may have contributed to why those benefits came our way.

Meanwhile, the former Yugoslavia’s well-known "soft" communism failed to neutralise the general propaganda about the wickedness of communism or any form of serious socialism. Neither did the tourism allowed by President Tito into your dangerous state that I visited on a school exchange in 1963 and, later, as a tour guide for the summer of 1970 in Cavtat/Dubrovnik. My tourists guests then, so far as I recall, thought those "Commy" Yugoslavs were lucky to have our foreign financial patronage. They certainly never appreciated how the "Commy" youth – if they spoke to them at all - were probably better educated, more genuinely liberal than they and their "Brit" children were and they knew very little if anything of the complex construction of the Republic whose coast was a one-year-only change from Spain’s Costa Brava. And they cared less.Holiday travel is part of popular culture and popular culture generally is a powerful indicator of many things, including the effects of wars and how a nation recovers from war.&nbsp;Remember the Beatles and ever heard of the "swinging 60s"? The Beatles take-over of the world started only 15 years after the end of WWII and they were not looking back. Nor the Rolling Stones. Check out on the internet UK films of 1960/1/2/3/4/5/6/7/8/9 and what do you find? Comedies, Spy films about the iron curtain, silly James Bond films, Ben Hur, "westerns" but almost nothing serious about WW11. Lanzmann’s seminal film about the holocaust, Shoah, came out only in 1985 , well over one generation after the war was ended; Schindler’s list in 1993.&nbsp;UK citizens’ culture, shallow or not, moved forward to some other place because it, and much of the rest of the world, was certain of the UK’s immediate virtuous past.In Bosnia, and also in Kosovo, some, many, most films since the 1990s look back to the wars of the 1990s.&nbsp;For Bosnia to Srebrenica in particular. Despite all the many good things Bosnia has going for it, forward movement is not one of them. And it is not Bosnia’s fault. And that’s really bad luck because those whose fault that is may do nothing now to help. Bosnia is trapped and, in truth, people outside Bosnia do not really care.

I must return to the heresy that victor’s justice may not, after all, be such a bad thing. And indeed, despite what Göring said, and the UK head of MI5 thought, in 1946 it was not until about 1971 that the term "victor’s justice" was generally applied in a critical or pejorative way to one-side-only trials.

Before that happened and perhaps, not as surprising as we might now think, in 1962 when Lord Russell established an informal process to consider criminality in the Vietnam war , its left-leaning panel of anti-American philosophers and others looked only at criminality of the USA. No interest in crimes of the other side, the communist Vietcong. Much though the tribunal has been criticised – and little though may been its effect – it was the only public evidence-based assessment of criminality of the US although it declined to consider the Vietcong. It stuck to the Nuremberg model – unashamedly.
Do these considerations speak of the value of having a clear winner after conflicts and a certain loser? Just as in football?The ICTY - well-intentioned - set out to "try" all sides. Not for it or for the ICTR (the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda established a year later) the failings of the "victor's justice" court at Nuremberg. Nor indeed for the International Criminal Court that came into being a few years later that also will consider trying all sides.&nbsp;The UK/USA/Canada/Australia etc. model of justice - as a game where a prosecutor and defendant compete - may never have been the ideal way to review the wars of the Western Balkans. And may now be showing its shortcomings.One shortcoming – unintended one hopes – of the determination of the ICTY to try all sides in the Yugoslav wars was that all sides were given pubic opportunity to advance their own side of the history, even if absurd, as defendants or as victims. And they were able to use the overall trial process to make the best they could of the ICTY’s public record by provision of evidence, by withholding of evidence, by use and abuse of the legal process. And perhaps by an ability to persuade Mrs del Ponte as to what documents should be in public, what not; even who should be prosecuted and who not. And from the start the Serbs knew well what they were doing, able as they always have been to rely on instinctive preference for Serbia over other parts of the Balkans by politicians in northern Europe, in the UK in particular.Back to what I said at the start. Not only were the Serbs without excuse and wholly to blame collectively but even individually – team member by team member as individuals - they were the worst offenders.
Lord Owen said in evidence to Milošević during his trial that:

<h2>There was evil done on all sides by all parties</h2>

- I think it is too simplistic to see the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina being one of aggressors and victims. I've made it quite clear that I think there was evil done on all sides by all parties... there is a danger in trying to be fair in apportioning an equality of guilt, in trying to determine that all were equally at fault. That, in my judgement, was not the case. I said it yesterday and I say it again. In trying to make that very difficult judgement as to how many -- you know, what was the balance of fault, what was the balance of horror, what was the balance of inconsiderate behaviour, I think the Bosnian Serbs come out the worst. I they are followed by the (Bosnian Croats), and then by the Muslim leaders and troops. The Bosnian Serbs were the first, in my view, in the scale of bad behaviour. I think your fellow Serbs did not do the reputation of the Serbs worldwide any good by their conduct in Bosnia.But this kind of "fair" analysis - "worst", "bad", "less bad" - obscures or overlooks a truth. Of course once at war each side will kill people of the other side and bad things may be done by both sides within warfare. Unless there is total victory, or the general perception of total moral victory, by one side - as in WWII - the originating cause, the real cause of all the death, misery, loss and destruction, gets forgotten
And if the originating cause was by the party also seen as the worst collectively and individually – Serbia, Republika Srpska in this case - why not demand from the international community the certainty for Bosnia’s future that victor’s justice might have brought and could now bring? May the potential value to Bosnia of this certainty be a fourth truth?

There will be no contentment in your land if its history is not accurately recorded

Former Hague tribunal prosecutor Geoffrey Nice for "Dnevni avaz": Bosnia is trapped in, and people outside do not really care

The President of SBB (Savez za bolju budućnost - Alliance for a Better Future), Fahrudin Radončić, reacted to the statements of the member of the Presidency of BiH and the leader of the SNSD, Milorad Dodik, against whom the United States imposed new sanctions yesterday.
- At yesterday's press conference of the SNSD, after the United States deservedly imposed new sanctions on him, Milorad Dodik mentioned me in a negative context among several respectable personalities from the international community. In that sense, it is an honor for me to be in the company of people whom Dodik is trying to satanize in the most mundane way.
So, he attacked me with a story in which I am the main character of the alleged criminal schemes.
However, the public knows that I have been legally acquitted before international and domestic judicial institutions of all charges that Milorad Dodik is now mentioning.
First of all, before the EULEX International Tribunal in Kosovo. In a fair trial, all allegations in the indictment, represented by prosecutor Andrew Hughes, were completely rejected.
The same happened before the Court of BiH. From today's point of view, I am glad that Hughes was the main actor in the story, because the EULEX Supervisory Authority (HRRP) in case no. 208-01 of 16 September 2021, by the Decision on the merits of the case, and on the appeal of my lawyers, additionally and definitively established that "my human rights protected by Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights have been violated".
Now, after the process is over, it is time for my financial compensation claim, which will amount to millions of euros. The same applies to compensation for unfounded detention in Sarajevo.
So, this is a judicially adapted story, which - and was publicly acknowledged by some actors - was mounted at the top of the SDA and submitted to the international community and the domestic judiciary.
Finally, my advice to Milorad Dodik is to have confidence in the judicial system under the auspices of the international community or at the level of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The on who is not guilty, has no reason to be nervous – it is concluded in the statement.

My advice to Milorad Dodik is to have confidence in the judicial system under the auspices of the international community or at the level of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Radončić said in a statement

Radončić: The public knows that I was legally acquitted before international and domestic judicial institutions

Radončić: Milorad, why are you nervous if you are not guilty

Fahrudin Radončić, President of the Alliance for a Better Future of BiH (SBB), addressed the audience today, during the awarding of the Order of the People to the Ambassador of the United States of America to BiH, Eric Nelson. 
Nelson was awarded the Order by the European Movement in Bosnia and Herzegovina for "special merits in strengthening friendship and cooperation between our peoples, preserving peace in BiH, successful implementation of the Mostar 2020 Election Process, and development and respect for tolerance and human rights."

<h2>Ambassador Nelson encouraged us to understand each other</h2>

According to Radončić, all awards must contain one specialty, charisma, strength and result in the work that a certain person does.
- I had the opportunity to meet him personally, and I was a friend of several ambassadors as a media mogul, and I cooperated with several US ambassadors accredited in Sarajevo. All of them worked hard on the development of relations between the two countries, and I am grateful to my friend Osmanović for detecting it and stating it. I am old enough, I am friends with many very powerful people, to say that His Excellency Nelson is a very capable successful diplomat, very competent and I must say that he is an extraordinary diplomat with a sense of delicacy, but also with very precise views in communication with others, when it comes to expressing the views of his government, or his views personally.
Through these challenges of amending the Electoral Law and the Constitution, we spent many hours together, in the same room and with many other political leaders, and I must say that there was a consensus among all of us to have great respect for what His Excellency Nelson was doing and showing, and that is, I have reason to emphasize, exceptional care for everyone, and I must emphasize, for every citizen of Bosnia and Herzegovina, regardless of their ethnic or other religious affiliation.
I am not saying this out of courtesy because of today's solemn occasion, but because it is really so. I mentioned at the beginning that this great award, and this medal, has a personality. This is perhaps the only opportunity to say that His Excellency, Ambassador Nelson encouraged us by personal example and transparency, as a society and as a community to be much more tolerant and to understand each other better, not only in a political sense.

Each US ambassador left a personal mark during his service in Sarajevo. Politics and diplomacy are such disciplines that much of what has been done that is relevant is relatively quickly forgotten under something called dynamic life, new personalities and events. However, there is one merit of Ambassador Nelson that will not be forgotten, because it represents a civilizational step forward for BiH in understanding the rights of the LGBT population, and at the same time our approach to the standards that we will have to meet as a society if we want to be accepted, and we want, in the European Union and to have the highest Western standards when it comes to the respect for human rights.
Only thanks to his Excellency, which motivated many of his colleagues from the diplomatic corps, but also influential figures from politics, sports, culture, pride parades became part of public opinion, without the former extremely violent reactions of the domestic public. Therefore, on this occasion, I would like to emphasize this as something that will remain in the form of a permanent category behind His Excellency for the good of the citizens of BiH and for our more democratic relationship and our Euro-Atlantic path.
My predecessors have already said enough about his efforts in the field of security, economy, mediation so that we, the domestic actors, can make our decisions more courageously and decisively, and in the end I wish him great success, good luck and equally great results in the duties he will perform in the future - said Radončić.

I would like to emphasize this as something that, in the form of a permanent category, will remain behind His Excellency for the benefit of the citizens of BiH and for our more democratic relationship and our Euro-Atlantic path

Radončić: Ambassador Nelson is a very capable and successful diplomat

The Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina acquitted Dušan Sladojević, Slavko Aleksić and Risto Lečić of charges of inciting hatred due to activities undertaken at a meeting of the Ravna Gora Chetnik Movement in March 2019 in Višegrad.

They were accused of participating in a gathering in Višegrad on March 10, 2019, organized by the Ravna Gora Chetnik Movement of the "Fatherland of Srpska", and then glorifying the movement in speeches at the Dobrunska River site, known as Draževina (named after Serbian Chetnik movement commander in WWII, war criminal Draža Mihailović), thus causing unrest and fear among the population, especially the returnees.
Lečić is accused of singing a fiddle song at the Višegrad Square, glorifying the Chetnik Movement. Which, as stated in the indictment, expresses threats of violence in the lyrics.
The accused did not attend the reading of the verdict, N1 reports.

The accused did not attend the reading of the verdict

Dušan Sladojević, Slavko Aleksić and Risto Lečić are acquitted of all charges

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Minister of Foreign Affairs of Bosnia and Herzegovina Bisera Turković on Wednesday talked with the British Prime Minister's Special Envoy for the Western Balkans Stuart Peach about current challenges and the situation in B&amp;H and the region of Western Balkans.

Minister Turković pointed out that the current blockade of the institutions of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the latest anti-constitutional activities are causing enormous damage to all citizens and the progress of our country towards the European Union, and threatens to destabilize the entire region.
She pointed out that the problems should be solved in the institutions of our state, and in the context of talks on changes to the Election Law. She stressed the importance of involving all parliamentary parties and other stakeholders in order to enable equal rights for all citizens in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Special Envoy Peach said the UK wants to provide support to the entire region, where there are currently a number of problems.
He informed the Minister with the meetings he held with officials in our country, but also with young people, and added that in the process of strengthening and progressing Bosnia and Herzegovina and the region, he would work closely with the United States and the European Union.
Peach reiterated his support for the OHR and said he would work closely with the High Representative and promote Euro-Atlantic integration, said the B&amp;H Foreign Ministry.

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