When Serbia beat Bosnia at football, young Serbs in the Republika Srpska came out to celebrate.
Now he hears the world legitimize and pronounce its name, the republic of Srpska.
Karadzic made no mention of stepping down as the president of the Serbs' self-declared state of Republika Srpska.
Instead Bosnia was split into a Bosniak-Croat federation and the Republika Srpska (RS).
From November 1996 to January 1997 he was an adviser to Biljana Plavsic, the former president of Republika Srpska.
But the vote in Republika Srpska looked clear cut, with Nebojsa Radmanovic having secured 56% of the votes so far.
The tiny Republic of Srpska (pop. 1.5 million), the Serb-controlled half of Bosnia, signed RSL to provide its international telecom services.
Brcko is the narrowest point in the Bosnian Serb territory, and falls midway between the east and west halves of Republika Srpska.
He then worked as an adviser to Biljana Plavsic, the former president of Republika Srpska, before retiring from the army in 1997.
The Bosniak-Croat Federation, together with the Republika Srpska, make up Bosnia-Herzegovina.
In 2003 people in Brcko earned twice the average pay of people in Republika Srpska, and a quarter more than the average in the Bosniak-Croat federation.
In Bosnia she called for unity and criticised threats of secession made by Milorad Dodik, the president of Republika Srpska, the Serb part of the country.
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It is an achievement because it marks the end of a long period of political stalemate in the country, which is divided into the Croat-Bosniak federation and Republika Srpska.
Milorad Dodik, the premier of the Republika Srpska, the Serb part of Bosnia, wants the same right to self-determination as that exercised by Montenegro last year, and possibly by Kosovo soon.
Karadzic has offered to resign from the presidency after the September elections in exchange for Western security guarantees for Republika Srpska and the Serbs being given control of the strategic town of Brcko.
As the war broke out in April 1992, Sarajevo was besieged and hundreds of thousands of Muslims and Croats were driven out of areas that Mr Karadzic intended to secure for his Republika Srpska.
The former president of Republika Srpska, head of the Serbian Democratic Party (SDS) and commander of the Bosnian Serb Army has refused to enter pleas, but says he will co-operate with the court to prove his innocence.
Ministers of Science and Education from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro and the Republic of Srpska also took the floor, as did the Deputy Minister from The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and the State Secretary of Serbia.
Mitchell said that with Karadzic and Mladic still free to influence events in the Republika Srpska, the Serb-designed part of Bosnia, any elections in Bosnia would not satisfy the letter of the spirit of the Dayton agreements.
Mr Dodik has been campaigning heavily for a referendum on the future of Republika Srpska - not on whether it should hand over power to a more centralised Bosnian government, but whether it should be allowed to leave Bosnia altogether.
The division of Bosnia and creation of a new "Republica Srpska" is a major concession to the Bosnian Serbs, who would have their own government, their own constitution and even their own special ties abroad to their ethnic brethren in Belgrade.
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