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Bosnia and Herzegovina - Prime-minister and 500 Ministers

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Translated From Tjednik, Zagreb, 1 March 1997:

How does the goverment in Bosnia and Herzegovina function

The Primeminister and five hundred ministers

In the last five years over two thowsend citizens of Bosnia and Herzegovina had the ID of a member of parliament, some five hundred were ministers, and a two dozen primministers and presidents of states. Of course, just a small number of those represented a state that was internationally recognized in the spring of 1992, while others were officials of quasi-states, of which the shortest life had the Authonomous Region (just for a few days - Replublic) of Western Bosnia, while the Croatian Republic (Community) of Herceg-Bosnia and the Republic of Srpska lasted until the signing of the first international juridical arrangements for Bosnia and Herzegovina. Then the Croatian quasi-state was abolished by the will of the West, and the Serbian became in Dayton one of the states as a part of the integral Bosnia and Herzegovina, which, on the other hand, in signed agreements is not defined neither as confederacy (as it is sometimes entitled by Western media), nor as union (as it is all the time named by media of Republic of Serpska), so that the Bosnians got the chance to live in an absolutly rare country