Bosnia Hertegovina

“I am extremely pleased to be here today to welcome and to reiterate my strong support to the cooperation project between the Municipal Court of Sarajevo and the Basic Court of Banja Luka. As I stated at your previous meeting of 9 of September, the relations these two courts have …

Moscow will ask the United Nations to control the work of international judges and prosecutores who are handling war crimes cases at Bosnia’s State Court after their mandate was recently extended by the top international envoy in the Balkan country. “Russia believes that the work of international jurists has to …

A mayor has finally been elected to Bosnia’s ethnically divided city of Mostar after a 14-month political deadlock was broken by the top international envoy in the country, Valentin Inzko. Bosnian Croat Ljubo Beslic’s election to the post was made possible by Inzko’s decision last week to change the city …

Budžeti skoro svih nivoa vlasti u BiH uz mnogo sreće bit će usvojeni posljednjeg dana u ovoj godini. Bit će to svojevrsno čudo jer dosad su vlasti budžete usvajale u trećem ili četvrtom mjesecu godine za koju se taj budžet i odnosi. Ove godine je situacija malo drugačija. Pritisnuti zahtjevima …

Novi prijedlog budžeta BiH za narednu godinu bit će umanjen za oko 24 miliona KM u odnosu na u srijedu odbačeni prijedlog, a novim prijedlogom bit će uvažen i zahtjev Predsjedništva BiH za izdvajanje 35 miliona KM za povratak, rekli su jučer u Ministarstvu finansija i trezora BiH.

The UN Security Council has extended the mandate of the Hague Tribunal until the end of 2012. This was announced by the United Nations in New York on Wednesday.

Since the War Crimes Department in the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina was set up in 2005, 58 war crimes sentences have been passed. 41 Serbs, 11 Croats, 5 Bosniaks and 1 mujahidin of Middle East descent have been sentenced for war crimes. Ten sentences concern crimes against Serbs, six …

Poslanici SNSD-a u Predstavničkom domu parlamenta BiH na jučerašnjoj sjednici najavili su da neće podržati budžet BiH za narednu godinu. Većina ostalih stranaka podržala je predloženi budžet u prvom čitanju. Poslanici nisu postigli jedinstven stav o zahtjevu predsjedvajućeg Vijeća ministara BiH o smjeni ministra za ljudska prava i izbjeglice BiH …

Dom naroda parlamenta BiH usvojio je jučer Zakon o agenciji za prevenciju i borbu protiv korupcije BiH, čime je ispunjen još jedan uslov za liberalizaciju viznog režima. Zakon će stupiti na snagu tek nakon usaglašavanja, pošto su Predstavnički i Dom naroda parlameta BiH usvojili dvije različite verzije.

Bosnian Croats on Tuesday slammed a bid by the top international envoy to Bosnia to end a 14-month political deadlock in an ethnically-divided town caused by the failure to elect a mayor. The Bosnian Croat Democratic Union (HDZ BIH) party said the move was directed against Croats and had been …