To Washington With Unchanged Stances

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BH Presidency members are travelling to New York for the 15th anniversary of Bosnia’s accession to the UN, Silajdzic, Dodik to Washington.

The chairman and member of the Bosnia-Herzegovina Presidency, Nebojsa Radmanovic and Haris Silajdzic, will today take part in the marking of the 15^th anniversary since Bosnia was admitted into the United Nations in New York. The third member of the three-man presidency, Zeljko Komsic, did not travel due to illness.

To Washington with Dodik

After New York Silajdzic will travel to Washington where he will meet up with Milorad Dodik, the Prime Minister of the Bosnian Serb entity of Republika Srpska, and talk with representatives of the American diplomacy in charge of this part of the region, Daniel Fried and Nicholas Burns.

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President Silajdzic

Haris Silajdzic will hold a lecture “Changing results of genocide in Bosnia-Herzegovina” at the Centre for Strategic and International Relations in Washington. On invitations he has been introduced as “President Silajdzic”, Nezavisne novine daily writes. Bosnia does not have a president, but a three-member presidency with a rotating chairmanship.

But according to the Dnavni avaz daily, the two Bosnian leaders are not bringing anything new to the United States that would cheer up the American diplomacy. The secret talks in the past several days on two occasions that Silajdzic and Dodik held with the US Ambassador to Bosnia-Herzegovina, Douglas McElhaney, did not result in an agreement in any of key issues for Bosnia, which are the reform of the police, constitutional changes and the status of Srebrenica.

McElhaney allegedly invited Silajdzic and Dodik to try to “break” them ahead of the Washington meeting, but the talks resulted in no changes in the politicians’ attitudes.