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In the News (Wed 11 Nov 09)

  
  PILPG: Brcko
The Bosnian government seeks the return of Brcko, arguing that the town is vital because, as a port on the Sava River, it provides badly needed access to the outside world.
Without Brcko, the Bosnian Serbs would not control a continuous area, and therefor would be compelled by geography to cooperate with the rest of Bosnia and the international community in implementing the Dayton accords and in promoting stability and security in order to keep their road and air communications open.
With Brcko in their sole possession, on the other hand, the Bosnian Serb authorities can be expected to flout the rest of Bosnia and the international community and work toward partition.
www.publicinternationallaw.org /publications/editorials/Brcko.htm   (676 words)

  
 Brcko
Brcko is located in the northeastern corner of Bosnia-Herzegovina.
It is no surprise that Brcko was a hotly contested area in the recent war in the Balkans.
In 2000, Brcko was established as a jointly governed entity (by Republika Srpska and the Bosnian-Croat Federation), but was to be supervised by the international community.
www.crucibleofwar.com /brcko1.htm   (195 words)

  
 Washingtonpost.com: Bosnia Time Line
Brcko, near the border with Croatia, is regarded as crucial real estate by both units of Bosnia: the Bosnian Serb Republic and the federation of Croats and Bosnian Muslims.
The Brcko area will become an autonomous region considered to be simultaneously in both parts of Bosnia but ruled by neither, "a kind of condominium," a senior U.S. official said.
According to this senior official, the reason Owen did not allow the territory to remain entirely inside the Bosnian Serb Republic was that Poplasen and other anti-Dayton hard-liners had frustrated Dodik's efforts to comply with the peace agreement.
www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/inatl/longterm/balkans/stories/brcko030699.htm   (737 words)

  
  The City of Brcko: The Key to Bosnia's Future
Superimposed on a map of the country is the outline of a key with "Brcko" on it.
Brcko, the name of the city and surrounding district in northeastern Bosnia, sits on the banks of the Sava River separating Bosnia from Croatia to the north.
Brcko is in the American-controlled sector, and U.S. troops went on high alert in February just in anticipation of a ruling.
www.aliciapatterson.org /APF1803/Beelman/Beelman.html   (3653 words)

  
 Venice Commission - Commission de Venise   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Until the Brcko District Assembly decides otherwise in accordance with the Statute, a round seal with the text "Bosnia and Herzegovina, The Brcko District of Bosnia and Herzegovina" in both the Cyrillic and Latinic alphabet is used.
(2) The Brcko District is represented by the Mayor in accordance with the Statute.
Brcko District Councilors shall not be held criminally or civilly liable for any act carried out, opinion expressed or vote cast in performance of their duties in the Assembly.
www.venice.coe.int /docs/1999/CDL(1999)082-e.asp   (5219 words)

  
 The Brcko Bridge Repair March 1996   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
The damaged bridge connects Brcko, Bosnia in the south with Gunja, Croatia in the north.
Brcko is a strategic town located in the narrow Posavina corridor.
When finished, the Brcko bridge was the first permanent bridge in service across the Sava River in over four years.
www.usace.army.mil /essc/one/brcko1.htm   (375 words)

  
 FENA News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Although Brcko may be relatively small in size, the progress that you have already made is large in significance and has associated Brcko with success, with moving forward into the future, rather than with stagnation and the past.
Brcko is today well positioned to continue to lead the way in many areas, but we need to tell our story even more effectively and better explain why success here is good for the Entities and for Bosnia and Herzegovina as a whole.
Brcko is catching up with neighboring countries faster than most of the rest of BiH, but we will need to keep moving forward in order not to slip backward.
www.fena.ba /uk/vijest.html?fena_id=FSA107098&rubrika=ES   (2330 words)

  
 Talk:BrĨko - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The claim that the Brcko District is not part of either the Federation or Republika Srpska might de facto be true (that is how things are run on the ground), but de iure it is false.
OHR, Office of the High Representative (http://www.ohr.int), provided a clarification on the status of the Brcko District, stating that the District is in fact a condominium of both entities.
Citizens of the District have a right to hold entity citizenship of either Republika Srpska or the Federation, and have the right to vote on their entity's elections, although they are banned from serving in either entity's army.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Talk:Brcko   (560 words)

  
 Brcko District (Bosnia and Herzegovina)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Brcko District of Bosnia of Herzegovina, Distikt Brcko Bosni i Hercegovini
The seat of the District is the town of Brcko.
Zovik is nowdays part of the Brcko District (the one nither in the Federation nor in Srpska).
flagquest.com /FOTW/flags/ba-brcko.html   (786 words)

  
 Newsletter   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
BRCKO, Northeast Bosnia -- The President of the municipal assembly of Brcko, Mirsad Djapo, called upon the international supervisor for Brcko, Robert Farrand, to prevent Serb representatives in the multi-ethnic government of Brcko from distributing building lots to displaced Serbs who are presently living in Brcko.
Karamovic began work on the renewal of the "Dresden" of Brcko, as Robert Farrand (international supervisor for Brcko) called it, before the arrival of the supervisor...Karamovic was surprised at how the Americans are not able to discover the people who destroyed the houses one hundred meters from their own army base (McGovern).
The displaced Serb population of Brcko has been the object of considerable manipulation by local authorities who were anxious to retain the city's status as a "Serb city." Zivlak explained to me his opinion of the true intentions of displaced Serbs.
www.advocacynet.org /news_view/news_53.html   (6314 words)

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