From 1961 to 1991, the official language was Serbo Croatian.

From 1961 to 1991, the official language was Serbo Croatian or Croato Serbian.

The Croat Presidency seat remained vacant until 9 May, when the Parliamentary Assembly elected the Croat National Union (HDZ) candidate, Ivo Miro Jović, to the post.

Čović was subsequently elected president of this main Croat nationalist party.

The City Council elected in October chose a moderate Croat as the first mayor of a unified Mostar.

This put an end to years of lawlessness and illegal parallel structures, a legacy of the Bosniak Croat war there.

At the time of reporting, Croat demands for an exclusively Croatian language television channel were delaying adoption of public broadcasting laws.

A destructive dynamic is accelerating, and Bosnian and Croat nationalism is on the rise. Recent local elections gave a fillip to nationalist parties.

In the most extreme cases, the Bosniak and Croat students do not even go to school at the same time in the day.

He was indicted on 14 March 1999 for serious crimes aimed at destroying the Bosnian Muslim and Bosnian Croat communities in that region.

The coordination body for harmonization of educational systems in BiH has also been formed, and it consists of the same ratio of Bosniak, Croat, and Serbian experts.

Before the war, in 1991, the population of the municipality had been 40,14 Bosniak (41.164), 38,83 Serb (39.820), 12,93 Croat (13.264), 5,62 Yugoslav (5.765) and others 2,48 (2.536).

Participation by minority communities (a priority) increased slightly 26 members of minority communities were recruited over the quarter (18 Serb, 2 Bosniac, 2 Croat, 2 Ashkali, 2 Turk).

The High Representative proceeded to appoint the best qualified candidate (who happened to be the Serb applicant that Ivanić had supported rather than the Croat backed by most other ministers).

Of the 3,024 active KPC members, 157 are from minority communities (33 Ashkali, 17 Bosniac, 8 Egyptian, 1 Goran, 9 Croat, 14 Muslim, 2 Roma, 43 Serb and 30 Turk).

The electoral competition in Croat majority areas seems to have changed little, with the notable exception of a local strong challenge to the dominant Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ), in western Herzegovina.

Bosnia was divided between a Muslim Croat federation and a Serb republic, with little authority vested in the central government and a large international military and eventually civilian presence needed to hold it together.

Blockages in Bosnia and Herzegovina's State institutions followed the indictments of the Croat member of the State Presidency, Dragan Čović, and the State transport minister, Branko Dokić, for financial crimes allegedly committed when they occupied previous posts.

Having complained for some time that the Serb members of Council of Ministers were blocking reform in particular over the appointment of a Croat to the SIPA post Prime Minister Terzić floated the idea of early elections.

After extensive power sharing negotiations, a Croat mayor was finally elected with an element of cross party and cross ethnic support a development that would have been almost unthinkable before the statute was imposed a year ago.

It proposed that where the Defence team works in the language in which the Judgement is issued, priority be given to translating the Judgement into Bosnian Croat Serbian ( BCS ) rather than the other official language of the Tribunal.

President Covic's removal took place relatively quietly, without any significant interruption in the exercise of government or the reform process and, on 9 May, the House of Peoples confirmed Ivo Miro Jovic as the new Croat member of the Presidency.

We may regret that Milosevic s own trial ended without a conclusion. But a conviction only of Milosevic, however justified, without parallel penalties for his Croat, Bosniak, and Kosovo Albanian counterparts would hardly have contributed to serious self reflection within the post Yugoslav nations.

Compared with data for the majority population, in some parts of Republika Srpska, over 50 per cent of the minority population is poor, while in the parts of the Federation with a Croat majority, 15.6 per cent of minority households belong to this category.

On 2 March, the Bosnian Croat member of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Dragan Covic, was indicted by the Bosnia and Herzegovina Prosecutor for abuse of office official authority and links to organized crime in his capacity as former Minister of Finance of Bosnia and Herzegovina.