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    Lauren Easton “The Associated Press decries in the strongest terms the actions of the Israeli government to shut down our longstanding live feed showing a view into Gaza and seize AP equipment. The shutdown was not based on the content of the feed but rather an abusive use by the Israeli government of the country's new foreign broadcaster law. We urge the Israeli authorities to return our equipment and enable us to reinstate our live feed immediately so we can continue to provide this important visual journalism to thousands of media outlets around the world.” 2 hours ago
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    John Holman “Few question his ongoing legitimacy and he [Zelenskyy] remains popular. Although lower than before, his approval rating's still above 60 percent. Many Ukrainians also feel an election would be unrealistic and disrupt the war effort. In a poll this March [2024], 78 percent of those asked said they were against elections before the end of the war. But in addition to that there's also the practical difficulties. Some Ukrainian towns are in ruins. Many power plants have been hit so there's rolling blackouts. And perhaps most importantly, there's 8 million people displaced, 5 million outside the country.” 2 hours ago
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Bosnia and Herzegovina

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Branislav Borenovic
Branislav Borenovic

“As of tomorrow, Serb political representatives will no longer participate in the work of the common institutions of Bosnia and Herzegovina and will not make any decisions until this issue is resolved.”

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Opposition leader in Republika Srpska (Bosnia Herzegovina)
26 Jul 2021 0 2
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Sefik Džaferović
Sefik Džaferović

“The High Representative [Valentin Inzko] has thus fulfilled his obligation to the victims, to his conscience, but also to the Dayton Peace Agreement, because the denial of genocide and the celebration of criminals is a mechanism that seriously undermines trust among nations and endangers peace.”

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Bosniak Muslim member of Bosnia’s tripartite presidency
23 Jul 2021 2 5
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Valentin Inzko
Valentin Inzko

“The citizens of Bosnia and Herzegovina have waited many years for their elected representatives to legislate this very serious issue [sanctioning the glorification of war criminals convicted by final and binding judgments and the denial of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes]. However, every effort to do so was blocked! During that time, the situation has gotten worse, and is now getting out of hand! By advancing various conspiracy theories, some political leaders are openly praising the finally convicted war criminals, denying that the Srebrenica genocide ever took place, while some ordinary citizens are following their cues and narratives. My conscience dictates that I have no right to end my term while the convicted war criminals are being glorified. I have no right to leave such a situation to the tormented citizens of this beautiful country and to my successor. I have no right to ignore the verdicts of the Hague Tribunal, which was established by the UN Security Council, and I am responsible for the civilian implementation of the peace process.”

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High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina
23 Jul 2021 7 5
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Bisera Turkovic
Bisera Turkovic

“President Aleksandar Vucic needs to strongly rebuke his Minister Vulin, for his recent statements. Failure to do so confirms Serbia support of the policy of destruction of the Dayton Peace Accords, an ominous threat to Bosnia and Herzegovina who suffered from aggression and genocide 26 years ago!”

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Bosnia and Herzegovina’s foreign minister
19 Jul 2021 6 4
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Ehlimana Memišević
Ehlimana Memišević

“These efforts and attitudes by Visegrad's Serb rulers and residents are undoubtedly distasteful, divisive and counterproductive. They are yet another slap in the face of a people who lost so much and still healing. But, perhaps most importantly, they are signs that the hatred, indifference and dehumanisation that paved the way for the atrocities of the 1990s in Visegrad are still strong in the hearts and minds of the town's residents. Denial of genocide or any other crime against humanity is an indicator that a repeat of that crime is a possibility. And today in Visegrad, we routinely witness not only efforts to whitewash history, but also outright calls for another genocide.”

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Assistant professor at the Department of Legal History and Comparative Law, Faculty of Law, University of Sarajevo
16 Jul 2021 4 3
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Paulo Rangel
Paulo Rangel

“Further reforms are needed, building upon modest progress to date. We support an inclusive dialogue involving reforms that will allow BiH to advance on its European path and to obtain candidate status. This is only possible by affirming Bosnia and Herzegovina's pluralistic nature while ensuring a functional democracy where all peoples and citizens are equal.”

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Member of the European Parliament
24 Jun 2021 0 1
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Bakir Izetbegovic
Bakir Izetbegovic

“Montenegrins and Montenegro, as well as all nations and states that belong to the civilized and democratic world, should certainly 'interfere in the issue of Srebrenica'. Any crime committed against innocent people, and especially genocide, concerns every just and truthful man in the world, every nation and every state.”

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Bosnian politician and President of the Party of Democratic Action (SDA)
21 Jun 2021 3 2
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NATO
NATO

“We commend Bosnia and Herzegovina, an aspirant country, for its contributions to NATO-led operations. We are committed to maintaining strong political dialogue with Bosnia and Herzegovina, and offer our continued support to the implementation of all reform efforts, including through NATO HQ Sarajevo. Allies urge political leaders to work constructively and to demonstrate political will for the benefit of all in Bosnia and Herzegovina in advancing Euro-Atlantic aspirations by implementing the much-needed political, electoral, rule of law, economic, and defence reforms, including through the country's Reform Programme with NATO, without prejudice to a final decision on NATO membership.”

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Joint declaration after the June 2021 NATO Summit in Brussels
14 Jun 2021 1 2
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Joe Biden
Joe Biden

“I sincerely hope leaders in the region will respect this judgment and reinforce its importance for the rule of law. My thoughts today are with all the surviving families of the many victims of Mladić's atrocities. We can never erase the tragedy of their deaths, but I hope today's judgment provides some solace to all those who are grieving.”

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President of the United States
09 Jun 2021 3 2
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Vedran Džihić
Vedran Džihić

“Behind that is the need to protect Dodik's own position and the SNSD structures, which in RS [Republika Srpska] have created a kind of kleptocratic-clientelistic rule, which behind the screen of caring for the Serbian people and nationalist rhetoric ultimately takes care of itself. The position of Dodik and SNSD [Alliance of Independent Social Democrats] is well shaken in some parts of RS and they feel it. It is also a reason for great nervousness and intensified ethnonationalism rhetoric and artificially raising tensions and creating crises. For politicians like Milorad Dodik, ready to do anything to stay in power and protect their own privileges and the privileges of the clique, there is no life outside of politics.”

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Senior Researcher with the Austrian Institute for International Affairs and a lecturer at the University of Vienna
08 Jun 2021 5 4
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Milorad Dodik
Milorad Dodik

“The election of a new High Representative in Bosnia and Herzegovina [Christian Schmidt] must go through the United Nations Security Council, without which we will consider Christian Schmidt a tourist. If this appointment is not carried out with the relevant UN Security Council Resolution, the High Representative will have no legitimacy.”

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Serbian member of Bosnia's tripartite presidency
08 Jun 2021 (approx) 4 2
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Milorad Dodik
Milorad Dodik

“The Office of the High Representative in Bosnia should be closed. The international community's experiment in Bosnia and attempts to appoint a new high representative must be stopped.”

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Serbian member of Bosnia's tripartite presidency
02 Jun 2021 1 3
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Valentin Inzko
Valentin Inzko

“Perhaps the international community made a mistake when it changed gears too quickly from what we had - a robust, strong, international presence - to domestic responsibility, domestic solutions.”

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High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina
29 May 2021 0 2
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Milorad Dodik
Milorad Dodik

“We cannot talk about the European path without talking about the current political situation in BiH. Many believe that BiH has a systemic error in terms of its existence. There are different opinions – according to one of them, the signing of the Dayton Accords itself began the integration process. The second opinion goes towards unitary country creation, while the third goes towards the need of full autonomy preservation, and the fourth that BiH should disband peacefully. Because of all that, BiH is a much more complex country today, and many even consider it a failure or a country of frozen conflict, which is not able to find a basic internal consensus.”

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Serbian member of Bosnia's tripartite presidency
14 May 2021 2 4
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Jasmin Mujanovic
Jasmin Mujanovic

“It's hard to imagine any scenario in which any attempt of secession or partition of BiH [Bosnia and Herzegovina] - or Kosovo or North Macedonia - doesn't immediately set off significant violence. It's just a non-starter. It's imperative the pro-Bosnian bloc creates a unified response and strategy to respond to the worst-case scenario, and that they also coordinate this, as much as is possible, with NATO leaders. The US in particular should be brought on side to the greatest extent possible, to ensure that no actual adventurism is attempted, and if it is, that there be a swift, and effective local-international response.”

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Political Scientist
22 Apr 2021 5 2
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Bisera Turkovic
Bisera Turkovic

“The goal seems to be the opening of a Pandora's box and destabilisation of the situation in the Western Balkans. Perhaps some believe they could achieve their wartime goals in such circumstances. The malicious idea … threatens the enormous progress made in the last two decades. Everybody should understand that those who are considering this as an option are rewarding and promoting the policy that is responsible for the genocide, and the worst war crimes since World War II. One could perhaps argue that by analogy, they themselves become complicit in it.”

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Bosnia and Herzegovina’s foreign minister
22 Apr 2021 1 3
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Toby Vogel
Toby Vogel

“I think it's more of a trial balloon or a provocation maybe. But the question is, what's the secondary effect this is going to have? Independently of whether any of this will actually happen, I think the effect it has is to create an atmosphere in which people feel that everything is negotiable -- nothing is to be taken for granted. And that's a very dangerous game to play, I think, in the Balkans.”

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Policy analyst focused on the Western Balkans and senior associate of the Democratization Policy Council (DPC)
15 Apr 2021 1 3
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Florian Bieber
Florian Bieber

“The idea of border changes is dangerous. It was already highly risky [to] discuss a mutually agreed border change between Kosovo and Serbia and [is] even more risky in Bosnia because it would involve not only a nonconsensual process [but] affect people against their will and throw overboard the approach of the international community [that has been in place] since 1991, namely that no border changes along ethnic lines are acceptable. This would have knock-on effects in Crimea and elsewhere and could trigger renewed conflict in Bosnia.”

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Professor at the University of Graz and member of the Balkans in Europe Policy Advisory Group (BiEPAG)
15 Apr 2021 2 3
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Milorad Dodik
Milorad Dodik

“It's an impressive uproar that arose only because someone mentioned the story of peaceful disintegration. It is like atomic disintegration. Peaceful disintegration should be placed as one of the important options to discuss. Whether it will be peaceful or something violent does not depend on us. But I will be persistent in insisting that BiH cannot suceed, there is no chance of success, and there is no basic agreement on anything. BiH was created out of their idea of ​​a great liberal order in the world, to show that the peoples who fought can reconcile. I have no need to reconcile with anyone. I do not want to be a prisoner of the misconceptions of the 1990s and not be able to talk about it 25 years after the war.”

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Serbian member of Bosnia's tripartite presidency
15 Apr 2021 0 3
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Srdan Blagovcanin
Srdan Blagovcanin

“When you observe the behavior of the leaders of the country, you see that they have been on a mind-numbing spending spree lately. In a situation where they failed to secure vaccines and basic medical supplies, they have purchased luxury vehicles for themselves. Last year, they acquired face masks and respirators through a company that cultivates raspberries. All of this leads to the question - does Bosnia even have a government and institutions in the organizational or functional sense? Or is Bosnia a failed country that cannot provide elementary services for its citizens? Has it become lethal for its citizens?”

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Chairman of Transparency International in Bosnia
10 Apr 2021 0 4
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Nedim Hogic
Nedim Hogic

“By treating all 14 issues as being of equal importance and demanding substantial constitutional changes in exchange for candidacy status with an unclear perspective, the EU tries to achieve too much while offering too little, risking progress even on those issues that are not contested.”

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PhD Researcher with the Sant’ Anna School of Advanced Studies and a freelance consultant
22 Mar 2021 3 4
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Josep Borrell
Josep Borrell

“Good to meet Bosnia and Herzegovina Foreign minister Bisera Turković. Positive steps in reform agenda, but BiH needs to further advance from Dayton to Brussels. Cooperation on Migration and EU support to the region in tackling consequences of COVID19 will continue.”

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EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy
11 Mar 2021 4 4
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Heiko Maas
Heiko Maas

“I can understand that this isn't fast enough for many, and of course I see that there are others offering vaccines and who expect favourable political conduct in return. But I am firmly convinced that despite the delay that nobody is pleased about … we can finally start delivering a large number of vaccines to the western Balkans.”

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Germany Foreign Minister
09 Mar 2021 3 4
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Amor Masovic
Amor Masovic

“In every possible way [it] tries to slow down the process. The leading politicians [in Republika Srpska] don't care about discovering the remains of missing people due to a very simple reason – the highest percentage of missing people in Bosnia are of Bosniak ethnicity, nearly 85 percent. We recently had a problem with the state when they didn't permit for the MPI [Missing Persons Institute] to buy special vehicles in the sum of 50,000 KM [$30,724].”

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Director of Bosnia’s Missing Persons Institute
23 Feb 2021 3 2
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Zoran Tegeltija
Zoran Tegeltija

“The readmission process needs to be speeded up and simplified … Bosnia is ready to be a partner in the control of migration but it cannot be a hostage of the migrant crisis and a dormitory for migrants.”

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Chairman of the Council of Ministers of Bosnia and Herzegovina
19 Feb 2021 1 1
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International Organization for Migration
International Organization for Migration

“There is a deterioration of social cohesion in these communities and a potential for the deterioration of relations between host and migrant communities. Host communities of migrant and refugee reception centres have been increasingly falling prey to xenophobic narratives, fueled by a lack of sense of control over political and migration management decisions in their communities and socio-economic issues brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic.”

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Document by IOM - Crisis Response Plan for 2021 in Bosnia and Herzegovina
03 Feb 2021 0 3
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Peter Stano
Peter Stano

“The inability of the authorities to implement decisions and fulfill their obligations negatively affects the image of Bosnia and Herzegovina internationally and could also affect the country’s European aspirations.”

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Lead spokesperson for the external affairs of the EU
18 Jan 2021 3 3
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Milorad Dodik
Milorad Dodik

“It is very important to stick to our policy that we do not want to accept migrants on the territory of Republika Srpska. Migrants are not Bosnia’s problem, but that of the EU, and it should take full responsibility for that problem.”

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Serbian member of Bosnia's tripartite presidency
12 Jan 2021 4 4
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Eve Geddie
Eve Geddie

“Accommodation is available to house most of the people currently sleeping rough in bitterly cold temperatures in Bosnia and Herzegovina. What is lacking is the political will to make that happen. The authorities at all levels must immediately provide suitable shelter and assistance to those in need. The EU’s responsibility is clear – the current humanitarian crisis is also a consequence of EU’s policy of fortifying its borders that has left thousands of people stranded on its periphery or in the neighbouring countries.”

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Director of Amnesty International’s European Institutions Office
12 Jan 2021 4 2
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Josep Borrell
Josep Borrell

“The situation in Una Sana canton is unacceptable. Winter-proof accommodation is a pre-requisite for humane living conditions, which need to be ensured at all times. Local authorities need to make existing facilities available and provide a temporary solution until Lipa camp is rebuilt into a permanent facility. We urge the authorities not to leave people out in the cold, without access to sanitary facilities in the midst of a global pandemic.”

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EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy
04 Jan 2021 4 3
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Florian Bieber
Florian Bieber

“It’s an outlier [Mostar municipality] from most of the other municipalities in Bosnia, but it does in a certain way reflect the situation at a higher level in the country.”

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Professor at the University of Graz and member of the Balkans in Europe Policy Advisory Group (BiEPAG)
18 Dec 2020 2 4
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Milorad Dodik
Milorad Dodik

“Stop the monster [the High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina, Valentin Inzko] who is trying to impose decisions on us that were not established in the Dayton Agreement; he is a foreigner who will destroy Bosnia, he is taking revenge on Serbs and Croats. We will not officially announce or respect any of his decisions in the RS [Republika Srpska]. If Inzko continues to implement decisions, I will consider beginning the integration of the RS with Serbia.”

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Serbian member of Bosnia's tripartite presidency
24 Nov 2020 4 3
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Valentin Inzko
Valentin Inzko

“There is also the erection of a monument to convicted war criminal [former Bosnian Serb leader] Radovan Karadzic, denial of the Srebrenica genocide and other similar rhetoric that threatens unity. After 25 years, we have witnessed the abolition of Dayton instruments.”

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High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina
24 Nov 2020 4 3
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Ajla Delkic
Ajla Delkic

“They [Republika Srpska] have spent over $20m on lobbying efforts against Bosnia. Croats have also spent millions on lobbying, while the Federation [entity] has spent $0 because clearly, they must feel that lobbying the US is not necessary. That is not a strategy and naive thinking at best. The Republika Srpska has a long-term plan and a strategy, and while people point fingers at them and say how they will not succeed – I do not think their goal is to have their objective realized today or tomorrow. It is a long term investment into the future.”

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Head of the Advisory Council for Bosnia and Herzegovina based in Washington DC
20 Nov 2020 1 3
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