Who runs Bosnia?

[Miroslav Visic]

I think Ivanic is a Serb (he is definitely not in HDZ).

Ivo Skoric wrote:

> Sarajevo's newspaper Oslobodjenje (Liberation) published an article
> on December 20, 2003, about the visit of Bosnian minister of foreign
> affairs to Israel.
>
> Despite objections by the chief of State (which in Bosnian case means
> the 3-headed presidency), Mladen Ivanic, Bosnian foreign minister,
> proceded with his unauthorized visit to Israel, leaving an open
> question about the chain of command within the Bosnian government.
>
> Sulejman Tihic, a Bosnian Muslim constituent member of the
> presidency, and the representative of the SDA party, objected to
> Ivanic's visit on grounds that Ivanic, a Croat, and HDZ member,
> decided to meet only Israelis, refusing to meet Yaser Arafat.
>
> Tihic, probably rightfully, believes that such a visit will sour
> relations between Bosnia and Arab Muslim countries that helped Bosnia
> with money, arms, and, even, fighters, during the war 1992-1995.
>
> However, another member of presidency, Borislav Paravac, a Serb,
> agrees with Ivanic's visit to Israel, and with his decision not to
> meet with Arafat. And the Croat member of the presidency, Covic,
> keeps silent on the issue.
>
> This sad story underlines the sorry state of affairs in Dayton
> Bosnia. The reality is that the glorified peace agreement does not
> amount to more than a supervised cease fire between Bosnia's
> constituent peoples, whose political representatives continue to
> represent only their ethnic agendas with no regard to the national
> interest of the country as a whole.
>
> One country, two entities, three peoples - and three separate
> militaries, three separate electrical power grids, three separate
> foreign policies, a total of 16 squabbling governments - and millions
> of displaced, dispossessed, deprivileged people at their mercy.
> Sometimes it seems that only people devoted to preserving the country
> of Bosnia are foreigners. That's why office of the high
> representative cannot be abandoned...
>
> ivo