Selmo Cikotić

Infobox Minister
name = Selmo Cikotić


caption = Selmo Cikotić entering The Pentagon in 2007
office = Minister of Defence
term_start = 22 April 2007
term_end = Incumbent
primeminister =
predecessor =
successor =
birth_date = January 25, 1964
birth_place = Berane-Ivangrad, Montenegro
nationality =
party = Party of Democratic Action
alma_mater = University of Sarajevo
rank = Brigadier General
unit =
commands = Operational group Zapad
1st Corps of the Federation Army
battles =
awards =

Selmo Cikotić (born January 25, 1964) is a politician of Bosnia and Herzegovina, member of the Party of Democratic Action, and former Army officer. He is the current Minister of Defence, a post he was appointed to in February 2007, but unable to take up officially until 22 April 2007, when a ban on former army officers performing defence-related civilian duties expired. [cite web|url=http://www.turkishweekly.net/news.php?id=42520|title=Bosnia Gets New Government Four Months After Elections|date=10 February 2007|publisher=Journal of Turkish Weekly|accessdate=2008-08-26]

In February 1993 he was made commander of operational group Zapad of the 3rd Corps of the Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina in Bugojno.

Cikotić served as the military attaché at the embassy of Bosnia and Herzegovina to the United States in Washington, D.C. from December 1994 to 1997. As Brigadier General he was enrolled at the U.S. Army's Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth in June 1997, before being expelled as a result of unconfirmed accusations made by Croatian officials that he commanded soldiers who killed and tortured people in and around Bugojno. [cite web|url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9503E0DC1031F93BA15755C0A961958260|title=Allegations Halt Army Training For Bosnian General in the U.S.|last=Weiner|first=Tim|date=June 28, 1997|publisher=New York Times|accessdate=2008-08-26]

From 2000 to 2004 he was the Commander of the 1st Corps of the Federation Army, and from 2004 to 2007 CEO of OKI in Sarajevo.

In June 2007 he jointly attended a Euro-Atlantic Partnership Council at the NATO headquarters in Brussels with the Serbian defence minister Dragan Šutanovac, together they expressed their governments' wish to join NATO as soon as possible. [cite web|url=http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/06/14/europe/EU-GEN-NATO-Balkans.php|title=Former Balkan war opponents aspire to NATO "as soon as possible"|date=June 14, 2007|publisher=International Herald Tribune|accessdate=2008-08-26]

In March 2008 he led a five member delegation to Pakistan, to discuss "bilateral cooperation between the two Muslim countries". [cite web|url=http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2008