Leader of the Bosniac SDA party in Sarajevo Sulejman Tihic has made a very measured response to the Serbia Assembly Resolution on Srebrenica, calling for a similar resolution in the BH Assembly apologising for crimes against Serbs and Croats. He also expressed the hope that the Declaration in Belgrade would change the consciousness in Republika Srpska.
A bold move by the former Izetbegovic party to claim the forward-looking part of the Bosniac electorate and show up the nationalist Silajdzic tendency among the Bosniacs as destructive and narrow-minded?
In any case, an early helpful bonus for President Tadic in Belgrade.
It prompts a Thought.
Good grief. What if sensible Balkan leaders finally started talking quietly to each other?
Here's a plan.
President Tadic of Serbia, new Croatia President Josipovic and future Bosniac Presidency member Tihic sit down and work things out sensibly, reaching some strategic understandings about ethnic disarmament and identifying a basket of policies aimed at fast-forwarding the region towards high European standards.
Within a context of success - and, vitally, local ownership of it - a huge amount can be done. It won't matter that the Office of the High Representative in Sarajevo evaporates.
Even Kosovo might start to look manageable.
Nobel Peace Prizes all round.




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