Bosnian Muslim Republic

A coalition of non-Serbian parties, "Together for Bosnia", which gathers nine Bosnian Croat and Bosniak parties, will contest the October general elections in Republika Srpska together, representing what they describe as a pro-Bosnian platform.

Bakir Izetbegovic says that Croats in Bosnia-Herzegovina (BiH) "cannot get (their separate) third entity in BiH without conflict and war."

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).

Bakir Izetbegovic, the Bosniak member of the Bosnian tripartite presidency, warned on Sunday that Croats "cannot get a third entity in Bosnia without a war".

His reaction came after a Bosnian Croat declaration last week which lent support to Croats' campaign to have an entity of their own in Bosnia, in addition to the Serb-dominated Republika Srpska and the Bosniak-Croat Federation.

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.

It has been more than 20 years since the General Framework Agreement for Peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina, popularly known as the Dayton Accords, were signed at a U.S. Air Force Base near Dayton, Ohio, in November 1995 under the auspices of U.S.

BEGRADE - Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic and Chairman of the Presidency of Bosnia-Herzegovina (BiH) Mladen Ivanic discussed on Wednesday future relations between Serbia and BiH, preservation of Republika Srpska (RS), and Serbia as a factor of peace and stability in the region.

Experts: BiH census key to ease ethnic tension, violence

Izetbegovic's Party of Democratic Action, SDA, the main Bosniak party, and Komsic's Democratic Front, DF, which came second in the Federation entity in last month's polls, signed an agreement on a future coalition on Sunday with the Alliance for Changes, the opposition bloc from Republika Srpska, the country's Serb-dominated entity.

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