Academician Mirko Pejanović recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award
Stjepan Mesić (left), Mirko Pejanović, (right) T he International Institute for Middle-East and Balkan Studies ( IFIMES )[ 1 ] awarded a “ lifetime achievement award” to the vice-president of the Academy of Sciences and Arts of Bosnia and Herzegovina (ANUBiH) and former member of the Presidency of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina (1992-1996), Academician Prof. Dr. Mirko Pejanović . Honorary President of the International Institute IFIMES Stjepan Mesić , former President of the Republic of Croatia, presented Academician Pejanović with the Lifetime Achievement Award. President Mesić highlighted the role and contribution of Academician Pejanović in Bosnia and Herzegovina during the most difficult period of aggression against this country and his state-building activities by strengthening democracy and the development of a multi-ethnic society. As a politician, statesman and top intellectual, Academician Pejanović contributed to the affirmation of the Euro-Atlantic path of Bo