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A few days ago, the city of Brcko in Bosnia & Herzegovina
was proclaimed to be a separate district, apart from the Serbian
Republic as well as the (Moslem-Croatian) Federation of Bosnia
and Herzegovina.
Jan Zrzavy , 10 March 2000
According to the OHR website (defunct):
Article 2 : Name and Seat -
The name of the District is: "The Brcko District of Bosnia
and Herzegovina". The seat of the District is the town of
Brcko.
Article 3 : Flag and Coat-of Arms -
There shall be no flag and Coat-of-Arms for the District other
than the flag and Coat-of-Arms of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Article 4 : Seal -
The District shall have a round seal with the text "Bosnia
and Herzegovina, The Brcko District of Bosnia and
Herzegovina" in both the Cyrillic and Latinic alphabet
Nitesh Dave , 13 March 2000
At <www.ohr.int>
one can find "Brcko Arbitration - Arbitral Tribunal for
Dispute over Inter-Entity Boundary in Brcko Area - Final Award:
ANNEX", 5 March 1999 with its article 11 quoting:
"11.Symbols
The District Assembly shall determine all symbols for the
District, provided that all such symbols shall be politically and
ethnically neutral and subject to final approval by the
Supervisor. There shall be no specific flag for the District
other than the flag of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The flags of both
entities may be flown within the District, but the flag of one
entity will not be flown without the other being flown on
essentially equal terms. Both the Latinic and Cyrillic alphabets
will be used on essentially' equal terms for all official
purposes. Any citizen of the District shall have the right to
request the issuance of official documents in any of the three
officially-recognized languages and shall have the right to use
any such language in official and all other correspondence, The
District government and the Supervisor shall be responsible for
issuance of a District identification card."
So, no flag for Brcko at all!
Zeljko Heimer , 5 May 2000
I have some useful information on the Brcko District of BIH.
The ones I have from Brcko Dictrict Mayor Mr. Sinisa Kisic':
1. Full name is: Brcko Disctict of Bosnia and Herzegovina
(Distrikt Brcko Bosni i Hercegovini - written both in Croat and
Serb).
2. The only Flag and CoA of the District are the
Bosnian-Herzegovinian ones. There are no separate symbols for the
District as for today. There is also Bosnian CoA on the Brcko
District Official Seal.
3. CoA on the web, entitled as the Previous Coat
of Arms is the present CoA of the City of Brcko (as used on
the City Map). I do not know if there is separate flag for the
City of Brcko.
Krzysztof Kurzeja, 7 November 2000
Concering Krzysztof Kurzeja contribution:
1) I believe that it is right in English. The Croat and Serb (and
Bosnian - three languages are official) version is somewhere
wrong as it does not make sence gramatically. At the moment I
don't have the full name by hand to quote is correctly, though.
2) That is correct and in agreement with the legislation
establishing the District.
3) I guess that the previous CoA still klings on on various
stationery. However, that CoA is more then obviously Serb in
symbolic, and as such I quite doubt that it is retained. It is
exactly due to such problems that "no-emblems" policy
was adopted for the District. I am not sure that there is in fact
such entity as "City of Brcko" within the District at
all. Nither do I know if there is separate flag for the City of
Brcko , but I believe that there was some kind of flag that went
along the CoA. There would be no flag today, following the same
arguments as above.
Zeljko Heimer, 8 November 2000
After the Dayton Agreement in 1995 the status of Brcko was
left unsolved for the time being. The arbitration tribunal was
working on the issue for the next few years, and finally in 2000
the decision was made that Brcko District shall be formed as a
special unit of B&H that shall be nither part of Srpska nor
the (Croat-Muslim) Federation. and this status is determined and
quite firmly fixed in the legislation, and I believe there are no
indications that the issue shall be opened for rearrangement any
time soon. Indeed, Brcko seems to be probably the most prosperous
community in B&H today, thanks at least partially to the
special status.
The statutes of the District explicitly state that the District
shall have no symbols of its own. The state flag of the B&H
is used only. The use of the entity flags is allowed, but when
one is shown the other must be shown as well. (Enitities are the
R. Srpska and the Federation, of course.)
Zeljko Heimer, 19 May 2004
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by Zeljko Heimer , 11 March 2000
I haven't heard the news. In any case, the only emblem of
Brcko known to be is the CoA of arms of the Serb municipality .
It is possible that the flag is a banner of arms, as usual in
modern Serb heraldry, but I fail to see what would that look like
in this case. Somehow, I doubt that this CoA shall be used by the
"denationalized" area.
Zeljko Heimer , 11 March 2000