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  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

  Yves Leterme, former Prime Minister of Belgium  In a 15th-century priory nestled away in a prestigious neighbourhood of Geneva, an exclusive audience from Europe, Asia, and Africa (under the program focused on International Relations and Global Politics) gathered on the gorgeous grounds of a university before His Excellency Yves Leterme, former Prime Minister of Belgium and Deputy Secretary General of the Paris-based OECD. He was speaking as part of the Geneva Lecture Series concepted and conducted by Professor Anis H. Bajrektarevic . Until recently, a basic principle of good governance was summarised in the motto „To govern is to foresee“. Now increasingly, it sounds „To govern is to manage the unforeseeable.”   This was the starting point of the presentation by his Excellency Yves Leterme . Prime Minister deeply impressed students with a combination of rational political and business approaches, a clear definition of key topics in society, and providing enough space for discussi