Bosnia Hertegovina

Japan will help Bosnia reduce it green house gas emissions through a 93-milion-euro loan for a desulphurization project in one of the country’s leading thermal power plants. 

Albania and Bosnia-Herzegovina (BiH) agreement scrapping bilateral visa requirements entered into force on Sunday. The agreement will allow Albanians and Bosnians to visit each others countries for up to 90 days without having to apply for visas, Albania’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement. Albanian foreign ministry’s spokesman Ralf Gjoni …

Russian ambassador to Sarajevo Aleksandr Harchenko said that “he would not classify Bosnia-Herzegovina as a powder keg”. He also said that Russia supports the territorial integrity and sovereignty of that country.

Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, who has boycotted his trial on genocide charges since it started last week, will appear in court on Tuesday, two of his legal advisers said on Monday. Karadzic, 64, has denied all 11 war crimes charges brought against him over the 1992-95 Bosnian war, …

Bosnia’s largest newspaper publisher Avaz and the country’s Islamic Community has accused the office of the top international envoy in the country of slander, after its officials allegedly implicated top Bosniak (Bosnian Muslim) leaders in crime. The Avaz Publishing Company announced they are planning to press charges against Deputy High …

Dozvole za međunarodni cestovni prevoz (CEMT) u Ministarstvu prometa i komunikacija BiH dijeljene su mimo Pravilnika, a prevoznici su za njih morali plaćati ogromne sume novca. Kazao je ovo juče Drago Kalabić, predsjedavajući Istražne komisije za provjeru raspodjele CEMT dozvola Parlamenta BiH, pozivajući se na prijave prevoznika koji su se …

Former Serb army commander Predrag Kujundzic was convicted of crimes against humanity including murder and rape by Bosnia’s war crimes court on Friday and sentenced to 22 years in jail. Judge Saban Maksumic said the court found Kujundzic, 48, guilty of “committing and coercing sexual slavery, rape, severe deprivation of …

The EU and US remain committed to ending the political gridlock in Bosnia, despite the apparent failure of their joint diplomatic initiative earlier this month, officials said. EU and US representatives moved to dispel fears that they were abandoning talks on Bosnia’s future, saying that their senior technical experts were …

The Hague Tribunal has rejected Radovan Karadzic’s appeal of the Tribunal’s decision to forbid the publishing of one of his responses in a written interview with Le Monde. After the Registrar’s Office of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, ICTY, reviewed a copy of the interview Karadzic wanted …

NATO membership would stabilise the political situation in Bosnia and open the way for the settlement of all questions concerning the country’s future, Bosnia’s defence minister says. “In the current situation, when our politics are war by other means, NATO membership would resolve all open security issues,” Selmo Cikotic said …