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SARAJEVO: Citing widespread abuse of rules and regulations, the international group charged with implementing the Dayton Agreement abruptly cancelled municipal elections across Bosnia Tuesday, a day before they were set to take place. U.S. diplomat Robert Frowick said that attempts by nationalist parties, particularly the Bosnian Serbs, to solidify ethnic divisions by forcing refugees to vote in particular areas, was the deciding factor in calling off the vote. Election laws say that voters can register to vote where they are now, where they lived before the war began in 1991, or where they would like to live. But giving Bosnia...
SARAJEVO: Citing widespread abuse of rules and regulations, the international group charged with implementing the Dayton Agreement abruptly cancelled municipal elections across Bosnia Tuesday, a day before they were set to take place. U.S. diplomat Robert Frowick said that attempts by nationalist parties, particularly the Bosnian Serbs, to solidify ethnic divisions by forcing refugees to vote in particular areas, was the deciding factor in calling off the vote. Election laws say that voters can register to vote where they are now, where they lived before the war began in 1991, or where they would like to live. But giving Bosnia...
SARAJEVO: As the September 14 date for nationwide elections in Bosnia draws near, U.S. and European leaders are nearly unanimous in their resolve to stick to the provisions of the Dayton Peace Accords, but the International Crisis Group, an independent think-tank, is urging a delay. ICG held press conferences Wednesday in London and Sarajevo to argue that the collapse of any semblance of democracy in Bosnia threatens to cement the ethnic division that sparked the war in the first place. The group's opinion carries significant weight, as its chairman is highly-regarded former Senate majority leader George Mitchell...
SARAJEVO: NATO troops confiscated an concealed cache of undeclared weapons and ammunition from Serbian forces in Eastern Bosnia amid admissions that there are many more such hidden stores. According to the terms of the Dayton agreement, each of the former warring parties in Bosnia is supposed to declare all weapons and military materiel so the UN and NATO can implement an equitable arms control agreement. Secretary of State Warren Christopher said the seizure would send a strong message to anyone violating the accord, but sounded a note of reality as well. "We always knew the Dayton agreement was complex...
...Sarajevo says the agreement may not lead to an effective government. "The Croats will boycott the city council in other ways. They simply do not want an undivided city." At least an agreement would buy a minimum of two months of valuable time. International mediators, determined to preserve the Dayton peace accords that ended years of war in Bosnia, fear that unless the Croats can be convinced to honor the Mostar election, a dangerous precedent would be set jeopardizing the integrity of Bosnia's September elections. Says Stiglmayer: "Mostar has a huge impact for the rest of the Muslim-Croat...