V. LESSONS FROM DEFENCE REFORM IN BiH

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Notes

¹Paddy Ashdown, ‘Europe Needs a Wake-Up Call: Bosnia is on the Edge Again’, Observer, 27 July 2008.

²According to Sefik Dzaferovic, a member of the DRC in 2004–05 and currently deputy chair of the Parliamentary Defence and Security Committee: ‘The defence reform needs further development, because this is the future of BiH.’ Author interview with Sefik Dzaferovic, 4 April 2013. Bosko Siljegovic – another member of the DRC in 2004–05 and currently BiH parliamentary military commissioner – has said that: ‘We have to have in mind that the defence reform is still in a transition period and, and that the progress is still measured in pioneer steps … the process has to continue.’ Author interview with Bosko Siljegovic, 4 April 2013.

³Dzaferovic interview, 4 April 2013; Siljegovic interview, 4 April 2013.

⁴Dzaferovic interview, 4 April 2013; Siljegovic interview, 4 April 2013.

⁵Dzaferovic interview, 4 April 2013.

⁶Siljegovic interview, 4 April 2013.

⁷Dzaferovic interview, 4 April 2013.

⁸Author interview with Dusanka Majkic, chair of the BiH Parliamentary Assembly's Joint Committee for Defence and Security, 27 February 2013.