Dzaferovic ejub ganic biography

OHR Monthly Tracker / Chronology 2000

Please also consult the OHR’s chronology for 20022001 2000 1999199819971996 and 1995

January

• The position of the Federation president and vice-president rotated, Ejup Ganic became the BiH Federation president and Ivo Andric-Luzanski the vice-president.
• The Independent Media Commission’s ” Rule on Broadcast Licence Fees” entered into force, and are a crucial part of the second phase of the licensing procedure.

• OHR Press Release on the High Representative’s Decision from 30 December 1999 extending the validity of decisions made by the BiH Council of Ministers concerning the imposition of additional import duties on various products for 1999.
• Croatian Parliamentary elections held.

• OHR Press Release on the High Representative’s Decision from 30 månad 1999 extending the temporary suspension of the powers of municipal authorities, in both entities, to re-allocat

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  Half of Bosnia marks Independence Day, the other half ignores it

  As usual, only half of Bosnia and Herzegovina is marking March 1st as the country’s Independence Day is celebrated mostly only by Bosniaks and Croats. In the other, Serb-dominated half, March 1st is a working day as usual.

  Even 27 years after Bosnia’s referendum on independence, opinions on the holiday are divided between the country’s two semi-autonomous entities – the Bosnian-Croat majority Federation (FBiH) and the Serb-majority Republika Srpska (RS).

  Streets and squares in the Federation are decorated with Bosnian flags, but the other entity does not recognise the holiday.

  Bosnian Serbs never wanted Bosnia to secede from the then Serb-dominated Yugoslavia and boycotted the referendum on independence on February 29, 1992.

  Citizens were asked:

  “Are you in favour of a sovereign and independent Bosnia and Herzegovina, a state of lika citizens, peoples of Bosnia and Herzegovina – Muslims, Serbs, Croats and

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  List of members of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina by time in office

  This is a list of members of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina since the country declared independence on 1 March 1992, ranked by the length of their combined terms in office.

  To date, a total of 41 individuals have held office as members of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina, which has consisted of three members (one Bosniak, one Serb and one Croat) since 1996. From 1992 until the signing of the Dayton Agreement (which brought to an end the Bosnian War) the Presidency comprised seven members (two each for Bosniaks, Serbs and Croats and one member for "Others"); in addition due to the war taking place from 1992 until 1995 (and thus the existence of a state of imminent peril for the nation) three additional members were included in the membership of the Presidency: the Speaker of the Assembly, the Prime Minister and the Commander of the TORBiH General Headquarters (later the Commander o

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