Bosnia Hertegovina

Nenad Malić was sentenced on Monday in Belgrade to 13 years in prison for the murder of two Muslim civilians in Bosnia. The charged against his also included the attempted murder of another Bosnian Muslim (Bosniak) in Stari Majdan, Bosnia-Herzegovina, in 1992.

The former President of Republika Srpska filed a motion with The Hague Tribunal Monday asking it to annul its decision to appoint Richard Harvey as his defence attorney. Radovan Karadzic asked the Court to allow him to choose an attorney from the list, which meets the norms set by the …

The Hague Tribunal’s Trial Chamber rejected Radovan Karadzic’s motion challenging the Tribunal’s legitimacy. “The Trial Chamber would like to point out, once again, that the indictee should better invest his efforts in preparing for the continuation of the trial than submitting motions for ‘moral reasons’, despite the fact that he …

Invalidi, koji već četiri dana protestuju u zgradi parlamenta BiH, prijete da će državne poslanike uzeti za taoce ukoliko danas ne izglasaju odluku o ratifikaciji Konvencije UN-a o pravima osoba sa invaliditetom. Oko 100 invalida od četvrtka odbija napustiti zgradu parlamenta BiH tražeći hitno okončanje procedure ratifikacije konvencije o njihovim …

International Community High Representative in Bosnia-Herzegovina Valentin Inzko said that the final offer for a new Bosnian constitution is now on the table.

Nikola Špirić, predsjedavajući Savjeta ministara BiH, zatražio je juče od parlamenta BiH da razriješi dužnosti Safeta Halilovića, ministra za ljudska prava i izbjeglice BiH, jer je “četiri mjeseca kočio proceduru u vezi sa ratifikacijom Konvencije UN-a o pravima lica sa invaliditetom”. “Danas sam od Parlamentarne skupštine BiH zatražio njegovo razrješenje …

SAD i EU neće odustati od podrške domaćim liderima da ispune uslove za pomak BiH ka članstvu u EU i NATO-u, iako preksinoć u pregovorima o reformi Ustava BiH željeni napredak nije postignut. Poručio je to jučer zamjenik američkog državnog sekretara Džejms Stajnberg po okončanju odvojenih sastanaka s liderima sedam …

Radovan Karadzic’s legal adviser says the former Bosnian Serb leader has rejected his court-appointed lawyer and is unlikely to be ready to resume his genocide trial as scheduled on March 1. 

NATO has accepted Montenegro in its Membership Action Plan, MAP, an essential stepping stone towards full membership in the Alliance. However, Bosnia and Herzegovina failed to join the Plan because the country has not made enough progress in necessary reforms, foreign ministers said. However they promised that Bosnia and Herzegovina …

RS Prime Minister Milorad Dodik and other political leaders in Bosnia met yesterday with U.S. deputy Secretary of State James Steinberg. Dodik, who heads the government of the Serb entity, said after the meeting that solutions would not be imposed in Bosnia-Herzegovina and that Bosnian leaders would have to reach …