Bosnia Hertegovina

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Thursday in Sarajevo that his country favored closing down the powerful international envoy’s office in Bosnia, echoing views repeatedly voiced by Bosnian Serbs over the past months. “We believe that Bosnia and Herzegovina must take the responsibility for its own destiny,” Lavrov said after …

Postoji napredak u razgovorima i želja za konsenzusom, a svi učesnici sastanka razgovaraju u prijateljskoj atmosferi, otvoreno iznoseći stavove, izjavio je juče u Sarajevu Lars Valund, politički direktor u Ministarstvu vanjskih poslova Švedske, nakon razgovora eksperata SAD i EU s predstavnicima sedam bh. političkih stranaka u okviru butmirskog procesa. “Nemoguće …

Serbian authorities will have to send a message to Serbians in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) saying BiH is their homeland, declare Sarajevo as their Capital city and create their policy in those frameworks, Croatia’s President Stjepan Mesic said. “BiH must remain united for our region and for Europe and in …

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will pay an official visit to Bosnia and Herzegovina on Thursday, in order to discuss the Bosnian settlement and bilateral relations between Russia and the Balkan state with its top officials, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said.

An IMF delegation arrived in Bosnia on Wednesday to start the first quarterly review of the country’s progress in fulfilling terms from a 3-year stand by arrangement worth 1.2 billion euros. After meeting with the delegation, lead by Costas Christou, Bosnia’s Finance and Treasury Minister Dragan Vrankic said that the …

Predsjednica Vlade Hrvatske Jadranka Kosor i predsjedavajući Vijeća ministara BiH Nikola Špirić na jučerašnjem sastanku u Sarajevu složili su se da će sva otvorena pitanja rješavati dijalogom uz međusobno poštivanje i razumijevanje. “Razgovarali smo o nizu otvorenih pitanja. Naši kontakti i razgovori će se nastaviti kako bismo dijalogom i razgovorom …

Butmirski paket ne sadrži ništa što je suprotno dejtonskoj strukturi BiH, istakli su jučer ambasadori SAD i Švedske u BiH Čarls Ingliš i Bo Vilijam Hedberg, najavljujući nastavak razgovora u okviru butmirskog procesa. “Prijedlozi sadržani u butmirskom paketu za nas predstavljaju minimum potreban BiH za napredak ka kandidatskom statusu za …

The former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic will at last appear at his trial today, three day after proceedings opened against him on 11 war crimes charges. He has stayed in his cell since the prosecution began to read its indictment last week, but has now issued a letter saying …

A senior US diplomat in Bosnia denied accusations that he was behind a conspiracy against top Bosnian Muslim leaders leveled at him by an influential newspaper publisher and the country’s Islamic Community. 

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.