Haris Silajdžić
Haris Silajdžić (born October 1, 1945 in Breza , SFR Yugoslavia ) is a Bosnian-Herzegovinian politician , former member of the State Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina and its former Prime Minister .
Silajdžić studied history and political science at the University of Pristina , as well as Arabic and Islamic studies at the Garyounis University in Benghazi ( Libya ) . After receiving his doctorate in 1980 (on Albanian-American relations before the Second World War), he was a lecturer in Arabic at the University of Pristina, then professor of history at the University of Sarajevo and visiting professor at several US universities.
In 1990 he was appointed to the electoral team of the Democratic Action Party ( SDA ) by Alija Izetbegović and became vice chairman of the party.
He was elected as foreign minister after the first multi-party elections in Bosnia and Herzegovina in November and December 1990, from which the SDA emerged victorious. In October 1993 he was appointed Prime Minister and handed over the office to Hasan Muratović in 1996 after the new government was formed as required by the Dayton Agreement .
After internal party disputes in the SDA, Silajdžić resigned from the party in April 1996 and founded the Party for Bosnia-Herzegovina ( SBiH ), which he also chaired. In the same year he unsuccessfully applied for a seat on the State Presidium , but was appointed chairman of the joint Council of Ministers by this body together with the Serb Boro Bosić , who was replaced by his compatriot Svetozar Mihajlović in May 1999 .
In the elections in October 2006, Haris Silajdžić was elected with 62.8% of the Bosniak votes as the Bosniak representative in the three-member State Presidium. In the October 2010 elections, he came third with 25%. His successor in the State Presidium was Bakir Izetbegović .
Haris Silajdžić is married and has a son who lives and studies in Istanbul .
literature
- The International Who's Who , born in 2008
- Munzinger Archive Biographies, P021025-4 (week 08/2007)
Web links
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| SURNAME | Silajdžić, Haris |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Bosnian-Herzegovinian politician and historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 1, 1945 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Breza , Bosnia and Herzegovina |