SARAJEVO, Jan 25 (Hina) - Co-chairman of the Bosnia-Herzegovina Council of Ministers and president of the Party for Bosnia-Herzegovina, Haris Silajdzic, said on Tuesday the Dayton Agreement was an unsuccessful project which must be
urgently revised if peace in the south-east of Europe is to be consolidated. At a news conference held in Sarajevo Tuesday Silajdzic presented a document entitled "Memorandum on Changes" in which it is underlined that the existing Bosnia-Herzegovina was much too strong to disappear, but at the same time too weak to function as a self-sustainable state. "The Dayton Agreement was created on genocide and was imposed by force," Silajdzic said, stressing the fact that Republika Srpska was an entity based on "results of aggression and genocide". According to Silajdzic, the international community had recognised "bloody mistakes" made during the war in Bosnia-Herzegovina and consistently kept insi
SARAJEVO, Jan 25 (Hina) - Co-chairman of the Bosnia-Herzegovina
Council of Ministers and president of the Party for Bosnia-
Herzegovina, Haris Silajdzic, said on Tuesday the Dayton Agreement
was an unsuccessful project which must be urgently revised if peace
in the south-east of Europe is to be consolidated.
At a news conference held in Sarajevo Tuesday Silajdzic presented a
document entitled "Memorandum on Changes" in which it is underlined
that the existing Bosnia-Herzegovina was much too strong to
disappear, but at the same time too weak to function as a self-
sustainable state.
"The Dayton Agreement was created on genocide and was imposed by
force," Silajdzic said, stressing the fact that Republika Srpska
was an entity based on "results of aggression and genocide".
According to Silajdzic, the international community had recognised
"bloody mistakes" made during the war in Bosnia-Herzegovina and
consistently kept insisting on the implementation of results of the
"fascist aggression" built into the Dayton Agreement.
Silajdzic's memorandum suggests a need for changes to annexes 4 and
7 of the Dayton Agreement, that is, the Constitution and provisions
regulating the return of refugees.
He is requesting the establishment of constitutiveness of all the
three peoples in Bosnia-Herzegovina, the necessary bodies of
authority on the state level, the elimination of a national
discrimination in the electoral process and a stimulation to the
economic reintegration of the country.
Silajdzic also said Bosnia-Herzegovina needed a consistent
decentralisation by the establishment of cantons in the entire
territory, and the establishment of one instead of the current
three armies which, according to him, instead of having the task to
defend the country, are maintaining ethnically cleansed regions.
His previous announcements that he would initiate a revision of the
Dayton Agreement have caused harsh reactions from officials in the
Bosnian Serb entity.p
Republika Srpska Premier Milorad Dodik told Banja Luka's
"Independent Newspaper" that Silajdzic's place was "maybe in The
Hague" as he was a "war leader who significantly influenced the
bloodshed".
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