For many Bosnians, it seems natural for a high representative to give orders to their leaders.
The Bosnian foreign ministry thinks 300, 000 Bosnians are now citizens of countries outside ex-Yugoslavia.
However, he concedes that 18% of Bosnians live below the poverty line, and another 30% just above it.
It was acting on information received from four men - two Jordanians and two Bosnians - captured earlier.
In the next few weeks Bosnians and Albanians are expected to be granted visa-free travel to Europe's Schengen area.
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It and what it has done to help Bosnians move forward is what I choose to think about today.
This month Bosnians agreed to unify the command structures of their different armies.
It's probably just as well that most Bosnians are economical with their hope.
The answer is that outsiders are still needed to push Serbs, Bosnians and Kosovo Albanians into sorting out their many problems.
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In such a poisonous atmosphere the Europeans and Americans are trying to persuade the Bosnians to agree to modest constitutional changes.
Bosnians, meanwhile, celebrated their first peaceful New Year's Day in four years.
Polls show that most Bosnians think little either of their own politicians or of many of the foreigners who help govern them.
It is hardly surprising that Mr Schwarz-Schilling has shed his fervent belief that it is time for Bosnians to run their own country.
It will also send a strong message to Bosnians and Albanians that their governments need to do more to win visa-free travel too.
The Dayton agreements in 1995 resulted in a country shared by Serbs and Bosnians, but Gorazde, located in the Serbian part, stayed Bosnian.
Over the past few weeks, I've thought of the Rwandans, Bosnians, Angolans, Somalis, and many other nationalities, I have met over the years.
On Thursday, Bosnian authorities arrested two Muslims sought by the tribunal, marking the first time indicted Bosnians have been detained by their own government.
And in Spain a Montenegrin alleged to have murdered and raped in Sarajevo during the war was arrested at the request of the Bosnians.
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Another of the Bosnians sought to defend himself by asking the tribunal to look at the decision of the Bosnian Supreme Court ordering his release.
Many ordinary Bosnians have not understood the pressing need for this.
Foreigners are more impressed than the Bosnians themselves with all this.
Still, the Bosnians say that all with clean hands are welcome.
In the case of the Bosnians, the Supreme Court brief recounts a CSRT hearing where a detainee is charged with associating with an unnamed al-Qaida operative.
Just over 1m Bosnians had reclaimed their homes, and of these nearly half were so-called minority returns, going back to places where a rival group was dominant.
The Bosnians were greeted by emotional and rapturous audiences.
So the story remained until last week when government sources briefed American journalists that the Jordanians and Bosnians had been handed over to the Americans, and, it was believed, taken to their detention centre at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
The arrest of the two Serbs -- General Djordje Djukic and Colonel Aleksa Krsmanovic -- raised a key issue: how to pursue war criminals while at the same time maintaining an environment in which all Bosnians can move around freely.
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