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If Yugoslavia is to be accepted by others, it must start recognising its neighbors' sovereignty, says Wolfgang Petritsch It is time to deflate the champagne atmosphere in Belgrade. As the West's senior envoy to Bosnia, I have some hard questions for Vojislav Kostunica, Yugoslav president, who I plan to meet soon. Mr Kostunica's most obvious quarrel [...]

Monday, 22 May 2000 Floyd Spence says declare victory and get out. Here's the case for staying in and doing the job right. by Wolfgang Petritsch Time is running out for our efforts to impose a lasting peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The signs are hard to miss. SFOR, the country's NATO-led peacekeeping force, has reduced its troop levels by nearly [...]

My consistent message to this country has been that of "Ownership" - that officials and citizens alike take on the role of building the future of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Those officials who put their personal, national or party interests before their professional obligation to serve this country and its citizens, are serious obstacles on the road t [...]

Thursday 11 November I was still a little tired following yesterday's long flight back from Washington via Munich, but the Office of the High Representative never sleeps. There was a three-hour meeting with representatives from the Council of Europe.

I have just returned from New York where I chaired my first meeting of the Peace Implementation Council Foreign Ministers' Steering Board. The meeting went well. The Foreign Ministers fully endorsed the new strategy for Bosnia Herzegovina that I outlined.

How long will the international community continue to spend its time and effort in Bosnia-Herzegovina ? That question naturally concerns me as the new "high representative" of the international community here. But it also ought to be of some interest to the people who pay my salary - the taxpayers of the world. Though it should not be the only yard [...]

Stephen Schwartz's article ("Europe Should Leave the Balkan Media Alone," editorial page, Aug. 27-28) suggests there is a trans-Atlantic disagreement over how, and indeed whether, the media in Bosnia and Herzegovina should be restructured and regulated by the international community.

SARAJEVO -- This is my last week as the international community's High Representative in Bosnia-Herzegovina, a post I have held for the last two years. As this article goes to press, gangs of workmen are hastily planting flower beds and filling in the potholes of the war-damaged approach roads to Sarajevo's Zetra sports complex, the venue for the 2 [...]

There is plenty of happy talk at the moment about this country joining the European club. The Stablity Pact signed this month is indeed an important step for the region. But before Europe comes to the Balkans, politicians have to be evicted from the newsroom. When it comes to television and media freedom, Bosnia-Herzegovina is light years away from [...]

Serb nationalism was whipped up by the regime's TV factory of lies. Simon Haselock says that creating an independent media is fundamental to the region's stability Here is a short test. Is the following true or false? Kosovo is the spiritual homeland of the Serbs: that is the reason why they have refused to compromise on the province's nominal sove [...]