Banja Luka: Views on the Dayton Agreement 20 Years Later

Organized by "Nezavisne novine" and the City of Banja Luka, the conference "Twenty Years of the Dayton Peace Agreement - Views" began today at the Banski Dvor Cultural Center, reports the Patria news agency.

In one place, domestic and international officials gathered, including President of Montenegro Filip Vujanović, Special Envoy of the President of Croatia Mate Granić, Director of the Office for Kosovo in the Government of Serbia Marko Đurić, Chairman and members of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina Dragan Čović and Bakir Izetbegović, Chairman of the Council of Ministers of Bosnia and Herzegovina Denis Zvizdić, Presidents of Republika Srpska and the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina Milorad Dodik and Marinko Čavara, and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Bosnia and Herzegovina Igor Crnadak.

The conference also includes former Ministers of Foreign Affairs of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia, Zlatko Lagumdžija and Vladislav Jovanović.

In the third panel, U.S. Ambassador to Bosnia and Herzegovina Maureen Cormack, Russian Ambassador Aleksey Semenikhin, High Representative in Bosnia and Herzegovina Valentin Inzko, OSCE Ambassador Jonathan Moore, Deputy Ambassador of the United Kingdom Matthew Lawson, and Head of the Political Section of the EU Delegation Thomas Busch will speak. The conference is divided into three panels.

In the first panel, "View from Within," introductory speakers will be high-ranking domestic politicians, while in the panel "View from the Region," politicians and high dignitaries from regional countries will take the floor.

In the third panel, "View from Outside," representatives of the signatory countries of the Dayton Peace Agreement will speak, among others, writes Nezavisne.