LOCAL PRESS

Pavicevic: Thaqi will be arrested (Tanjug/Politika)

The liaison officer between Belgrade and Pristina Dejan Pavicevic has responded to the request of Pristina that their Foreign Minister Hashim Thaqi visits Belgrade on 24 April, and notified the Kosovo authorities that there is a valid court order against him in power, so he would be brought before the competent court, Tanjug was confirmed in the Office for Kosovo and Metohija. It has been noted that all Serbian citizens are equal before the law. Having in mind the legal system in Serbia and the fact that Thaqi’s verdict is legally binding, he would be apprehended on the first contact with any law enforcing services and brought to the court, the Office communicated. On 11 July 1997, Thaqi was convicted in absence before the district court in Pristina to ten years of prison, and on 12 March 1999 the verdict was confirmed by the Serbian Supreme Court.

Selakovic: Pristina creating tension before every round of talks (Tanjug)

Serbian Justice Minister Nikola Selakovic has assessed that the tension from Pristina always comes prior to the continuation of the Brussels dialogue, and said that Serbia is and will be a factor of stability in this part of Europe. Asked about the expectations of the next round of Belgrade-Pristina negotiations, following the statement of Kosovo Foreign Minister Hashim Thaqi’s statements about the annexation to Albania and the invitation from an NGO to come to Belgrade, Selakovic has answered that Serbia will show everyone how a responsible state ought to behave. The increased tensions have never come from the Serbian side, Selakovic emphasized prior to today’s round of talks in Brussels.

Drecun: Thaqi unacceptable for Belgrade (RTS)

The Chairperson of the Serbian parliamentary Committee for Kosovo and Metohija Milovan Drecun told the morning broadcast of Radio and Television of Serbia (RTS) regarding the withdrawal of the invitation for Hashim Thaqi and the foreign ministers of the countries that were supposed to take part in the gathering on 24 April that Thaqi is very problematic for Serbia in the political sense. This problem was transferred to the state of Serbia that had a clear stand on Thaqi’s arrival in Belgrade, says Drecun, adding there is a verdict of the local court whereby he was sentenced to prison over terrorism and it is still valid. Drecun says there are several problems regarding Thaqi’s arrival in Belgrade and he simply isn’t acceptable for Belgrade before his role in the crimes for which he is suspected by the CoE rapporteur Dick Marty is clarified. According to Drecun, an NGO cannot behave irresponsibly and lead Serbia into a problem that doesn’t exist. “If we accept such manner of performance, then at least four-five NGOs can create such problems on a daily basis so the state deals only with this and somebody starts setting new conditions in Brussels,” says Drecun. He says the other problem is coming out of the framework of status neutrality where the Brussels negotiating framework is taking place. “We agreed the manner for Kosovo’s participation in regional gatherings where there must be an asterisk that doesn’t define Kosovo’s status as a state. In this case you would not have this,” says Drecun, noting that Thaqi’s arrival as a foreign minister would come out of the framework of status neutrality. On the other side, Drecun stressed, Thaqi as the political negotiator on behalf of Pristina in Brussels is suitable, because he won a certain number of votes with his party at the elections and had the strongest political power. “This was used by Thaqi, the structures and the media who want to hamper Serbia’s path towards the EU,” opines Drecun.

In regard to the resumption of the dialogue in Brussels, Drecun says the key thing is the formation of the Union of Serb Municipalities (ZSO). He says the ZSO must be formed in accordance with what had been agreed in Brussels and notes that it is illusory to expect that the statute in this field will not be harmonized with Pristina in Brussels. This Union could not operate if Pristina doesn’t bind itself to respect the statute, stresses Drecun. He says that apart from the property issue they must also discuss the position of the Serbian Orthodox Church and that the key issue and the biggest problem is the return of expelled and displaced persons and the resolution of the fate of missing and murdered persons. He says that a session of the Committee for Kosovo and Metohija will be held on Thursday where the Head of the Office for Kosovo and Metohija Marko Djuric will inform the Committee members about the course of the progress in the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue. He assesses that Chapter 35 is absolutely mature for opening, that there are additional conditions from certain EU member states such as Germany, which opines that, apart from the implementation of the Brussels agreement, additional demands must be fulfilled. He assesses that Pristina is constantly obstructing the most important part of the Brussels agreement, and this is the formation of the ZSO, because of which the situation is dragged without progress in the process of normalization of relations. Drecun points out that Pristina is also creating problems and obstructing in the field of telecommunications and energy. Commenting the announcements of adopting a resolution in the Kosovo Assembly on the alleged genocide committed by Serbia in Kosovo and Metohija, Drecun says that the real question is whether genocide was committed and who had a genocidal intention. Drecun says that the report by the CoE rapporteur Dick Marty and the head of the EULEX team for investigation of war crimes against Serbs in Kosovo Clint Williamson will serve for issuing indictments in the Special Court that will be formed. “We will have an opportunity for the Serbian victims to finally receive that truth and justice,” says Drecun, adding that the terrorist KLA is suspected of having a planned campaign of violence and ethnic cleansing.

REGIONAL PRESS

Conclusion of Stabilization and Association Agreement with B&H (Fena)

The Council adopted on 21 April a decision concluding the Stabilization and Association Agreement (SAA) with Bosnia and Herzegovina (B&H). It is expected that the Agreement would enter into force on 1 June 2015. The Stabilization and Association Agreement constitutes the framework of relations between the European Union and B&H. The agreement establishes gradually a free trade area between the EU and the country. It also identifies common political and economic objectives and encourages regional co-operation. In the context of accession to the European Union, the agreement serves as the basis for implementation of the accession process. The decision will allow B&H to move forward in its relations with the EU and it should provide a positive stimulus to continue socio-economic, judicial, and other necessary reforms for the EU integration of the country. The overall aim is to allow B&H to prepare itself for future EU membership. The EU has called on B&H to remain engaged and maintain the current positive momentum by developing, in consultation with the EU, an initial agenda for reforms with a focus on issues of direct concern to citizens. This initial agenda should include relevant reforms in the areas of economy, rule of law and good governance, and should address functionality issues, including an effective coordination mechanism on EU matters. The EU underlines the importance of engagement with civil society throughout this process. Meaningful progress in implementation of this reform agenda is necessary for a membership application to be considered by the EU. In its conclusions of 16 March 2015 the Council welcomed the adoption of the Written Commitment by the B&H Presidency on 29 January 2015 and its subsequent endorsement by the B&H Parliament on 23 February 2015. Taking into account its conclusions of 15 December 2014, linking the conclusion of the SAA to the Written Commitment by the B&H political leadership to reforms and progress on the EU path, the Council noted that the necessary conditions had been met and agreed to proceed with the conclusion and entry into force of the SAA with B&H. B&H was recognized as a potential candidate country EU accession in 2003 and signed its SAA with the EU on 16 June 2008 in Luxembourg.

Bosnian Presidency chairman sees new opportunity for B&H (Dalje/Dnevni avaz)

After seven years of complete hopelessness, a new prospect has opened for B&H with the activation of the Stabilization and Association Agreement (SAA) signed with the European Union and now the most important thing is to prepare a plan of concrete reforms that should be implemented, Mladen Ivanic, the current chair of the three-member B&H Presidency, said on Tuesday. Ahead of a meeting of the EU General Affairs Council and the adoption of a formal decision on the activation of the SAA with B&H on 1 June, Ivanic spoke with the Sarajevo Dnevni avaz daily and said that his country had to utilize the obvious great interest within the Union to help it. Ivanic said that clear evidence of this was the informal meeting of EU foreign ministers held in Luxembourg on Monday at the initiative of Croatian Foreign Minister Vesna Pusic. “Such great interest has not been recorded for some time and I think that this is an opportunity that must be used to the full,” Ivanic said. Defining economic reforms is a task that now awaits the country’s authorities and Ivanic believes that it has to be completed by the summer and that Prime Minister Denis Zvizdic and the governments of both entities have to see to it that it is done. He warned that international financial support was vital to the entities as their budgets were in serious trouble. This would then be immediately followed by the establishment of mechanisms to coordinate relations with the EU. The state, the two entities and cantons within the Federation of B&H entity would retain their powers in that process and a mechanism would be set up to unblock decisions in contentious situations, Ivanic said. Ivanic believes that the EU won’t sanction B&H if it were not to implement its obligations, warning that in such a case B&H would in fact suffer the most.

Expert team formed to represent RS in a hearing before the B&H Constitutional Court (Srna)

The National Assembly Committee on Constitutional Affairs has appointed a team of experts to represent the RS in a hearing before the B&H Constitutional Court regarding an appeal of the Bosniak member of the national presidency, Bakir Izetbegovic. The SNSD caucus whip in the RS Assembly Viskovic said that the team of experts is going to represent the interests of the RS Assembly before the B&H Constitutional Court in a hearing on the appeal in regard to the Law on Holidays of the RS, which is scheduled for May 27. “For the expert group, the SNSD caucus will propose the President of the Parliamentary Legislative Committee of the Council: Sveta Jovanovic, Zeljko Mirjanic, and if interested, Igor Radojicic would be added to the team,” Viskovic told Srna. He stated that Dragan Cavic should be a part of the expert team, as someone who has extensive political experience, and Professor at the University of Banja Luka Mile Dmicic would be also joining the team. “It should be a team of quality people that would represent our interests before the B&H Constitutional Court and can defend our interests in the best possible way,” concluded Viskovic. The RS Assembly shall not suspend the Republic Day if the B&H Constitutional Court rules that certain provisions of the RS Law on Holidays are declared unconstitutional, according to the Declaration adopted by the RS Assembly on 17 April.

FYROM Ministry of Interior: State institutions target of terrorists in the KLA uniforms (Kurir)

“The Macedonian state institutions were target of terrorists this morning at 2:30 am”, this was stated by Assistant Minister of Interior Ivo Kotevski. He added that a larger group of 40 people entered the watchtower “Goshince” at the northern border. They were well armed, spoke Albanian language and wore marks of the KLA. Masked and heavily armed people captured four on-duty police officers who were disarmed, bound, beaten and recorded on camera. “Through an interpreter who spoke bad Macedonian language the group leader addressed the policemen “We are the KLA, neither Ahmeti nor Gruevski can save you, we do not want any framework agreement, we want our own state,” said Kotevski. Terrorists have given half hour to the policemen on foot to leave the watchtower by saying if they go earlier or if they stay they would be liquidated. They have taken their weapons, mobile phones and radio traffic, and after passage of the deadline one of the officers who weren’t tied took the keys and released the colleagues who were handcuffed, and rushed down the road. While walking they heard automatic fire. Kotevski emphasized that the terrorist group is from Kosovo and that police is taking additional serious measures to clean up the terrorist attack.

INTERNATIONAL PRESS

Kosovo FM Thaci’s Belgrade Visit Cancelled (BIRN, by Una Hajdari, 20 April 2015)

A Belgrade-based NGO which asked Kosovo Foreign Minister Hashim Thaci to visit the Serbian capital for a conference has revoked the invitation, blaming what it said was political pressure.

The Youth Education Committee NGO said on Monday that the mooted visit, which caused Serbian officials to suggest that the Kosovo foreign minister could be arrested if he arrived in Belgrade, was now cancelled. The Belgrade-based NGO cited what it claimed was “strong political pressure… with the goal of ensuring the conference would not take place”. Invitations to all other foreign ministers from the region have also been revoked, the NGO said. Kosovo government adviser Ardian Arifaj told BIRN on Monday meanwhile that the Serbian government had responded threateningly to a diplomatic protocol request for assistance over Thaci’s mooted visit to Belgrade. “It is regretful that we received such an answer from Belgrade. We did not receive a clear yes or no answer, but rather, something that constitutes a threat,” Arifaj told BIRN. “This is not in the European spirit of cooperation and goodwill that Mr. Thaci promotes in the Balkans,” Arifaj added. Serbian war crimes prosecutor Vladimir Vukcevic warned last week that Thaci could be arrested on an outstanding warrant if he attended the conference. Pristina denied that the warrant was still valid however. According to diplomatic protocol, Belgrade would have been responsible for ensuring Thaci’s safety and providing transport. The Pristina government has previously arranged visits by top Serbian officials to Kosovo, including those of current Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic and President Tomislav Nikolic. Foreign Minister Thaci, who was also prime minister of Kosovo from 2008 until 2014, has not been to Belgrade since the conflict in the 1990s. He also headed the EU-facilitated political dialogue to normalise relations between Kosovo and Serbia on a prime ministerial level for more than two years. The next meeting between the two premiers is to take place on Tuesday.

UNMIK refuses compensation for victims (Sputnik, by Ana Otasevic, 14 April 2015)

Jovanka Mitic and four members of her family, together with fifteen other Serbs, went missing in June 1999 after thier village was attacked by the KLA. Their family found out from witnesses who survived the attack that they were abducted and reported their disappearance to KFOR, UNMIK and the Office of International Prosecutors in Pristina. None of these organizations has done anything, just like in the case of the disappearance of some twenty people from the village of Musutiste. UNMIK also didn’t conduct an investigation in the case of R.D. whose husband and son went missing in July 1999, even though it had data of intelligence services that the son is in a secret KLA prison in Srbica. Nothing was done in the case of Zlatko Antic either, even though the UN Mission in Kosovo had information of witnesses, former KLA members, that he was held in northern Albania. The Hague Tribunal also knew about this, and UNMIK sent in 2003 a report on human organ trafficking, organized by the KLA between Kosovo and Albania, for the purpose of forced prostitution and organ removal. The UN police didn’t investigate when Marjan Melonasi, a journalist of the Serbian newsroom of Radio and Television of Kosovo, disappeared in Pristina in September 2000. These are just some of the cases mentioned in the just published annual report of the Human Rights Advisory Panel. The work of the Panel is unknown to the general public despite their devastating conclusions. In more than 90 percent of the cases where it passed an advisory opinion, it was established that UNMIK police and investigators didn’t prevent the most serious violations of human rights, including the right to life, protection from torture, inhumane and degrading treatment and right to a court investigation in cases of missing and murdered. Ever since the Panel first established two years ago that the UN Mission violated the European Convention on Human Rights – article 2 (right to life) and article 3 (right to protection from torture and inhumane and degrading treatment), the Panel’s opinion has not been mentioned in Ban Ki-moon’s reports to the Security Cuncil. Since the UN is not subject to international law, members of their missions cannot be accountable. That is why the recommendations of the Advisory Panel addressed to the UN Special Representative for Kosovo Farid Zarif are being ignored. „UNMIK hasn’t fulfilled any of the measures recommended by the Panel, which refer to the compensation for families of the murdered and missing in cases where the Mission’s responsibility has been established, nor has he publicly apologized to the victims,“ reads the report. The conclusions of the Advisory Panel are bitter recognition of the inability of international experts to make UNMIK provide justice for the victims. „The Panel notes with regret that many complainants continue to address their secretariat even after recommendations for the UN to offer them compensation over violation of their human rights,“ reads the report. However, they only receive from Ban Ki-moon’s Special Representative an unclear answer that „he is open for talks on the possibility of establishing a mechanism that would deal with these issues with the appropriate authorities“, i.e. the Kosovo authorities. „Not even this feeble step is undertaken,“ notes the Panel. Instead of a public apology, UNMIK has sent a letter to the victims in which it „deeply apoligizes“ because this organization had violated their human rights. „The UN Special Representative maintains that this expression of apology is enough. The Panel disagrees, because it considers that individual letters addressed to compainants do not represent a public apology,“ reads the open criticism by international experts adressed to the UN mission. Their recommendation to Zarif was to „publicly apologize, which also includes an apology in the media, for UNMIK’s failure to conduct investigations“. A recommendation that he hasn’t fulfilled. The UN General Assembly normally encourages this form of compensation and it is used in the Inter-American Court of Human Rights in decisions on missing and murdered persons. The appeal to the UN and UNMIK representatives represents an expression of fear of the Panel’s experts that their work will be meaningless, and with it the prospect of providing justice for the KLA victims. „The Panel is seriously concerned over UNMIK’s failure to provide some practical compensation for the complainants. In order to offer some consolation to these people who have already lost so much and in order to acknowledge the work of the Panel as a body whose aim is to examine the responsibility of UNMIK in human rights violations, the Panel calls UNMIK and the UN to find a method to (pay) compensation to the victims whose human rights were violated,“ concludes the Panel, whose mandate expires by the end of the year.

Serbia’s Neglected War Victims Hope for Legal Change (BIRN, by Ivana Nikolic, 21 April 2015)

Legislation proposed by Belgrade-based rights groups is being sent to Serbian ministries on Tuesday in a bid to finally win compensation and benefits for victims ignored since the Yugoslav wars ended. “Two of my brothers went missing in 1998 and 1999. We get nothing from the state; we could receive compensation if we declare them dead but my mother refuses to do so,” said Simo Spasic, who fled Kosovo when Serbian forces’ war with the Kosovo Liberation Army ended in June 1999. “We still hope they are alive,” Spasic, who is also the head of the Association of the Families of the Kidnapped and Murdered in Kosovo and Metohija, told BIRN. According to the Belgrade-based Humanitarian Law Centre, HLC, Spasojevic is one of around 20, 000 people in Serbia who suffered during and in connection with the armed conflicts in the former Yugoslavia, either as a civilian victim or someone whose relative was killed or forcibly disappeared. But Spasojevic cannot claim reparations from the state as the existing Law on the Rights of Civilian Invalids of War does not recognise missing persons and their families as civilian victims of the conflicts. They are just one of many categories of people excluded from the current law, including victims of sexual violence and torture, people suffering from mental health issues and physical injuries whose disability level is below 50 per cent as well as people who died or were injured at the hands of members of the Serbian armed forces in other countries. “Civilian victims of the war have far less rights than war invalids and war veterans. And we need a law to regulate the status of the families whose members are missing [from the 1990s conflicts] as we feel neglected,” Spasojevic said. The HLC and the Centre for Advanced Legal Studies in Belgrade have prepared a ‘model law’ that would set out the rights of civilian victims who suffered during and in connection with armed conflicts from 1991 to 2001. The HLC is sending the draft to Serbian ministries for consideration on Tuesday. The rights group says it is a necessary response to the decade of improper treatment that some war victims have endured in Serbia. “Their status today is disastrous and devastating. The existing law passed in 1996 is a manifestation of the state’s relationship towards them; it is an example of legalised discrimination,” Sandra Orlovic, director of the HLC, said while presenting the model law last week. The fact that the current law does not recognise broad categories of victims is the reason why as few as 10 per cent of victims of war who live in Serbia have been recognised as such, Orlovic said. The current law was also criticised in the European Commission’s latest progress report on Serbia, which said that “there has been no improvement of assistance to victims”. Further criticism has come from the UN Committee on Enforced Disappearances, which urged Serbia to safeguard the rights of the families of missing persons. The rights groups’ model law was put forward after the Serbian Ministry of Labour, Veterans and Social Affairs proposed its own new legislation. That, too, has been severely criticised by NGOs that argued that it doesn’t uphold victims’ rights and urged the government to withdraw it.

‘These families live on the edge’

The model law however received a warm welcome from victims’ associations. “Passing this law would completely change the situation of the families of missing people; it would give them both symbolic and material reparations,” Gordana Djikanovic, from another missing persons’ association, told BIRN. “These families live on the edge and can hardly make ends meet,” she added. Victims would gain rights to healthcare, subsidised housing, professional rehabilitation, free city and inter-city transportation, as well as free legal aid and financial compensation – 10, 000 or 20, 000 euros, depending on which of their rights were violated. “It is also very important that the public knows the exact number of people that used the rights [prescribed by the law]. So the model law also envisages regular public reports,” said Sasa Gajin, from the Centre for Advanced Legal Studies in Belgrade.

No guarantee of success

Dragan Pjevac is another civilian victim of the war, a refugee from Croatia. After fleeing Croatia, Pjevac was seized by police in Belgrade in August 1995 and sent to the Croatian village of Erdut, to a training camp used by paramilitary Zeljko Raznatovic Arkan’s notorious paramilitary group, the Tigers. Afterwards, he was deployed to Serb-controlled territory in Beli Manastir in Croatia for three months until the Dayton peace deal ended the war. “I am a civilian victim twice over – my mother was killed in Croatia, and I was forcibly mobilised for three months,” Pjevac said during the presentation of the model law. But even though he was forcibly mobilised, he has received no compensation, as people from this category are also excluded by the current law – and by the government’s proposed new one as well. Djikanovic said she doubted however whether the Serbian authorities will support the rights groups’ proposed legislation. “I am sceptical [it will be adopted] because this model law differs a lot from the law proposed by the ministry of social affairs. I doubt they will give up their proposal and pass this one,” she said. But the HLC’s Orlovic was more optimistic. “It is uncertain how [Serbia’s] institutions will accept it, but they cannot ignore it. These are real problems and I have no doubts the bigger part of it will be passed,” Orlovic said. Action is needed quickly because time is passing, Orlovic warned. “A large number of victims are of advanced age and any delay would mean the continued deprivation of their rights,” she said.

Gunmen take police hostage in Macedonia, call for Albanian state (Reuters, by Kole Casule, 21 April 2015)

SKOPJE – About 40 armed men wearing uniforms of a disbanded ethnic Albanian guerrilla army from Kosovo took several police officers hostage in northern Macedonia overnight, Macedonian police said on Tuesday. The men left the police post near Macedonia’s border with Kosovo after several hours. Macedonian Interior Ministry official Ivo Kotevski told a news conference that the gunmen said they were part of the guerrilla Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA). Speaking in Albanian, they told their captives “We will have an Albanian state”. “This morning, Macedonian state institutions were the target of a terrorist act,” Kotevski said. The incident was reminiscent of an insurgency in Macedonia in 2001, when security forces fought rebels demanding greater rights for the former Yugoslav republic’s large ethnic Albanian minority. That conflict followed a 1998-99 war involving the KLA in neighbouring majority-Albanian Kosovo, a former province of Serbia. A peace accord in 2001 ended the fighting in Macedonia. The guerrillas laid down their arms and entered politics in exchange for greater rights and representation for an Albanian minority estimated to account for about 30 percent of Macedonia’s 2 million people. Macedonia was promised integration with NATO and the European Union but progress has been blocked by a dispute with Greece over Macedonia’s name, which it shares with a northern Greek province. Ethnic tensions remain, fuelled by frustration at the lack of progress towards the European mainstream and the jobs and prosperity many in Macedonia hope will follow. (Writing by Matt Robinson; Editing by Angus MacSwan)

EU Is Unfreezing the SAA with Bosnia and Herzegovina (Euinside, by Adelina Marini, 20 April 2015)

EU foreign and European affairs ministers will formally unfreeze tomorrow (21 April) the Stabilisation and Association Agreement (SAA) with Bosnia and Herzegovina in implementation of their part of the deal to change the approach for the country’s European integration. This is what Croatia’s first Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign and European Affairs Vesna Pusic said after the working breakfast of Friends of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The breakfast took place before the beginning of the foreign affairs council in Luxembourg on 20 April and for the first time gathered together so many ministers – more than 20. This was the first breakfast dedicated on a Western Balkan country. According to Croatia, which initiated the meeting, it is a sign that the British-German initiative for changing the approach toward BiH is now entirely a European one. Ms Vesna Pusic underscored that during the breakfast the European perspective of BiH was reaffirmed, which is very important at a time of strong reserves for enlargement. Although all member states are behind BiH and its European path the mood at the breakfast was of cautious optimism, Vesna Pusic said. The main topics the ministers discussed are the financial package for the country under the compact for growth and jobs in a combination with reforms. The other issue was the mechanism for coordination of the European reforms for which the EU has been insisting for years and has not yet been created. Last week Vesna Pusic was in Sarajevo on an official visit. After the meeting the Bosnian foreign minister, Igor Crnadak, said that the main priorities of the new government are two – the quick creation of this mechanism for coordination and the fight against corruption. On the question by journalists in Sarajevo regarding BiH’s state structure Vesna Pusic said that this is an internal issue for BiH. She recalled, however, that according to the new European approach, the issue of the structure of the country is left for a later stage. The issues that can relatively quickly deliver positive results should be tackled first because they can create the right conditions to discuss any future structure. Such issues are the economic and social problems of the country which were the initial reason for the change of approach for BiH. The question about BiH’s structure is a major priority of the biggest opposition party in Croatia, the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ), which is a potential winner of the parliamentary elections later this year. The party is of the opinion that the Dayton peace agreement, part of which is BiH’s Constitution, must be renegotiated to enable the creation of a federal state of three equal peoples – Croats, Serbs and Bosniaks (Bosnian Muslims), as euinside recently wrote. First Deputy Prime Minister Vesna Pusic agreed in an interview for the Bosnian edition of the Croatian daily Vecernji list that Dayton has indeed proved not to be the best solution for the functioning of BiH. The country needs a new paradigm and that is its path toward the EU. Equality should not be sought in the Dayton model but in the EU model. The main responsibility about the functioning of the state lies with the BiH politicians, she added.

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