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SREBRENICA, BOSNIA...
...come together to make such a public call for peace. Launched first in Jordan this morning, and then in other countries over the course of the day, the letter gets its final unveiling at a joint press conference in Washington, D.C., this afternoon by Mustafa Ceric, Grand Mufti of Bosnia, and John Esposito, director of the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding at Georgetown University. By pointing out the similarities between the Bible and the Koran, between Christianity and Islam, the letter's signatories are asking Christian leaders to "come together with us on the common essentials...
Behind all such calculations loom concerns over how Serbia and Russia might react to Kosovo declaring independence. All politicians in Belgrade, including pro-Western ones, have publicly opposed full independence; Serbs in neighboring Bosnia have even threatened to split from Sarajevo in retaliation. Serb officials say war is not an option, but Belgrade could suspend diplomatic relations with the U.S. and other countries that recognize Kosovo. Losing Kosovo, a vital locus of Serbian national feeling, may also radicalize Serbian politics and push moderate nationalists like Kostunica away from the E.U. and into Russian hands. "Serbia should not seek the company...
...unlikeliest of scenarios, but today parts of the Balkans--that powder keg of Europe--are on the verge of a golfing boom. At KPMG's Golf Business Forum in Budapest in May, Croatia attracted attention from big-name developers. Montenegro is also generating interest. And while Serbia and Bosnia are unlikely to attract foreign golfers--as neither share Croatia's tradition of tourism--both report a burgeoning domestic market. "We have very often quoted Croatia as one of the countries with the highest potential for development for golf tourism, and we expect significant development there," said Andrea Sartori, head...
Similar challenges face developers in Bosnia and Serbia, where all that remains of the Belgrade course opened by Prince Paul Karadjordjevic in 1936--and bombed a few years later--is a restaurant named Golf. A new course in Belgrade opened in 2003 and has since seen its membership quadruple. The game is part of a new experience, a new Serbia, in which bunkers are sand traps, not places to hide. "Another three or four years, and I'll go pro," local champ Ognjen Radovic, 14, said nonchalantly, as if planning for one's future was never a luxury in Serbia...