Leader of the Bosniac SDA party in Sarajevo Sulejman Tihic has made a very measured response to the Serbia Assembly Resolution on Srebrenica, calling for a similar resolution in the BH Assembly apologising for crimes against Serbs and Croats. He also expressed the hope that the Declaration in Belgrade would change the consciousness in Republika Srpska.

A bold move by the former Izetbegovic party to claim the forward-looking part of the Bosniac electorate and show up the nationalist Silajdzic tendency among the Bosniacs as destructive and narrow-minded?

In any case, an early helpful bonus for President Tadic in Belgrade.

It prompts a Thought.

Good grief. What if sensible Balkan leaders finally started talking quietly to each other?

Here’s a plan.

President Tadic of Serbia, new Croatia President Josipovic and future Bosniac Presidency member Tihic sit down and work things out sensibly, reaching some strategic understandings about ethnic disarmament and identifying a basket of policies aimed at fast-forwarding the region towards high European standards.

Within a context of success – and, vitally, local ownership of it – a huge amount can be done. It won’t matter that the Office of the High Representative in Sarajevo evaporates.

Even Kosovo might start to look manageable.

Nobel Peace Prizes all round.