Actions Panel
Bosnia and Herzegovina after the Elections: What Needs to Change
Date and time
Location
1619 Massachusetts Avenue, NW
Rome Auditorium Washington, DC 20036Description
The Center for Transatlantic Relations
cordially invites you to a lecture on
Bosnia and Herzegovina after the Elections:
What Needs to Change
with
Dr. Valentin Inzko
High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina
Tuesday, November 18th, 2014
2:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Rome Auditorium
1619 Massachusetts Avenue, NW
Washington, DC
There is consensus that Bosnia and Herzegovina’s post-war political and economic development is not moving in the right direction. With the country’s seventh General Elections since the end of the war just concluded, new governments in Bosnia will need urgently to address the country’s socio-economic difficulties, and to get serious about the reforms needed to move closer to the EU and NATO. Large-scale protests earlier this year demonstrated that the public is fed up with patronage politics as usual and expects change. The international community also needs to reposition itself to address the reality that Euro-Atlantic integration alone has proven an insufficient incentive to reform. This will mean placing a renewed commitment to an integrated and functional country at the core of our common policy in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Dr. Valentin Inzko is an Austrian diplomat who served for four years as Ambassador to Slovenia immediately before taking up his appointment as High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina in March 2009. Earlier, from 1996 to 1999 he was the first resident Austrian Ambassador to Bosnia and Herzegovina. From 1999 to 2005, Dr. Inzko headed the Austrian Foreign Ministry department responsible for Central, Eastern, and Southern Europe, Central Asia, and the Southern Caucasus. Before joining the Foreign Ministry, Dr. Inzko held senior positions with UN Development Program missions in Mongolia and Sri Lanka. His other diplomatic postings have included Austrian Representative at the United Nations and Deputy Director of the UN Disarmament mission.