Izetbegović

After leaving the building, SDA presidency member Alma olo said that no agreement had been reached, that everything else was up for discussion.

"If people want to live, they must be ready to die, if they want peace, they must be ready for war. It would inevitably go first to Brcko, on the entity lines, and where the returnees are, because they would probably experience inconveniences, so we would have to protect them and the state, Brcko", said Izetbegovi.

In response to Izetbegovi's letter, ovi says that the leader of the SDA is trying to do so by disempowering the House of Peoples of the Federation of Bosnia-Herzegovina, which, according to him, should be Bosniak, "under the guise of your vision of a civic".

A day later, Cutileiro wrote a multi-page account of his talks with the three nationalist leaders to inform the European Community foreign ministers - and a single sentence on the meeting with the six opposition parties, affirming merely that it had taken place.

"I don't think anyone would dare start a conflict again in BiH (Bosnia-Herzegovina)... but that doesn't mean we should not react and prepare for every possible scenario," Izetbegovic, who currently chairs the tripartite Presidency of BiH, told journalists in Sarajevo, Croatian daily Jutarnji List is reporting.

After the 1992-95 war, the country is made up of the Serb Republic (RS), the Serb entity, and the Muslim-Croat Federation of Bosnia-Herzegovina (FBiH).

"About 60 percent of Croats live mixed with Bosniaks in BiH," said Izetbegovic, who is the Bosniak (Muslim) representative in the tripartite BiH Presidency.

Republika Srpska called on its representatives in Bosnia's state institutions to drop everything and walk out after Izetbegovic told German public broadcaster Deutche Welle that war could be a means by which to resolve internal political issues in the country.

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Bakir Izetbegovic says that "even the attempt" of the RS to secede from Bosnia would lead to a conflict with unforeseeable consequences for the Balkans.

Izetbegovic, the leader of the Party of Democratic Action, SDA, had a clear lead over his nearest rival for the Bosniak presidency seat on Monday morning after 76 per cent of ballots were counted.

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President urged to "change his mind" about Sarajevo trip

SARAJEVO -- Bakir Izetbegović says he "does not understand the reasoning behind Serbian President Tomislav Nikolić’s plans not to go to Sarajevo."