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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 [...]

... Dok Zapad zuri da napusti Balkan Floyd Spence kaze da treba proglasiti pobjedu i otici. Ovdje se radi o ostajanju i obavljanju posla na pravi nacin. Vrijeme istice za nase aktivnosti koje poduzimamo u cilju nametanja trajnog mira u Bosni i Hercegovini.

Poruka koju ja stalno ponavljam i koja je upucena ovoj zemlji jeste poruka o "odgovornosti", sto znaci da i zvanicnici i gradjani trebaju preuzeti ulogu izgradnje buducnosti Bosne i Hercegovine. Oni zvanicnici koji svoj licni, nacionalni ili stranacki interes stave ispred svoje profesionalne obaveze da sluze ovoj zemlji i njenim gradjanima predstav [...]

Cetvrtak, 11. novembar Jos uvijek sam pomalo umoran nakon jucerasnjeg dugog leta iz Vasingtona preko Minhena, ali Ured visokog predstavnika nikad ne spava. Trosatni sastanak sa predstavnicima Vijeca Evrope. Cini se da svi nestrpljivo cekaju prijem BiH u Vijece Evrope, predvorje kluba zemalja poznatog pod imenom Evropska Unija.

Upravo sam se vratio iz New Yorka gdje sam predsjedavao svom prvom sastanku ministara vanjskih poslova zemalja clanica Upravnog odbora Vijeca za provedbu mira. Sastanak je protekao dobro. Ministri vanjskih poslova su dali punu podrsku novoj strategiji za Bosnu i Hercegovinu koju sam predstavio.

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 [...]