page_title: Haris Silajdžić
section_title: Early political career; Foreign and Prime Minister
hierarchical_section_title: Haris Silajdžić / Career / Early political career; Foreign and Prime Minister
caption_attribution_description: March 18, 1994: President Clinton addressing the Croat-Muslim Federation Peace Agreement signing ceremony in the Old Executive Office Building. (Credit: William J. Clinton Presidential Library) Hosted by the Clinton Library and the Clinton Foundation, the document release was spearheaded by CIA’s Historical Review Program (HRP), which identifies, collects and produces historically relevant collections of declassified materials. The Bosnia collection—the youngest ever released in HRP’s 20-year existence—is available online at www.cia.gov/library/publications/historical-collection-pu... A video recording of the symposium is available at www.clintonpresidentialcenter.org
context_page_description: Haris Silajdžić is a Bosnian politician and academic who served as the 6th Bosniak Member of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina from 6 November 2006 until 10 November 2010 and as the 3rd Prime Minister of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina from 25 October 1993 to 30 January 1996.
  Apart from those two positions, Silajdžić was also the Co-chairman of the Council of Ministers of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the 1st Prime Minister of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the 1st Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
context_section_description: From 1990 to 1993, during the Bosnian War, Silajdžić served as the first Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina and as the Prime Minister from October 1993 to January 1996. Originally, he was a member and vice-president of the Party of Democratic Action, but broke away from the party in 1996 by funding his own Party for Bosnia and Herzegovina (SBiH). His SBiH entered the Parliamentary Assembly of Bosnia and Herzegovina and become one of the leading Bosnian Muslim parties the following year. Also from 31 May 1994 to 31 January 1996, Silajdžić served as the first Prime Minister of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
  During the war, he was a strong ally and type of a consultant of Alija Izetbegović, the first and only President of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
  After the end of the war, on 3 January 1997, he was appointed to the position of Co-chairman of the Council of Ministers of Bosnia and Herzegovina, serving alongside Boro Bosić and Svetozar Mihajlović until 6 June 2000.
caption: Silajdžić (second from left) alongside Bill Clinton, Alija Izetbegović, Franjo Tuđman and Krešimir Zubak at the signing of the Washington Agreement on 18 March 1994 in Vienna, Austria.
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