Bosnia Hertegovina

After Butmir agreements, Bosnia and Herzegovina’s legislative power should be more effective and it should speed up decision-making process. U.S. Ambassador to Bosnia and Herzegovina, Charles English, said on Sunday that the package of constitutional changes suggested to Bosnia and Herzegovina by the international community will soon be handed over …

Three former envoys to Bosnia have issued a joint statement critiquing the latest EU-US effort to end the country’s political crisis and proposing a new international approach. The statement was issued by Wolfgang Petritsch, Paddy Ashdown and Christian Schwarz-Schilling, who served as high representatives to Bosnia and Herzegovina between 1999 …

Bosnia-Herzegovina has been elected as a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council for the period 2010-2011, says UN General Assembly President Ali Treki. Brazil, Gabon, Liberia and Nigeria have also become non-permanent members.

The UN General Assembly has elected Bosnia and Herzegovina a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council, UNSC, to the delight of local officials. The country’s election is “The biggest achievement of Bosnia and Herzegovina foreign policy since independence in 1992,” boasted the main headline in Friday’s edition of Sarajevo …

BiH do kraja godine treba da napravi male korake u ustavnoj reformi, što je jedan od ciljeva butmirskog procesa, izjavio je juče Lars Vahland, zamjenik direktora za politička pitanja u Ministarstvu vanjskih poslova Švedske, zemlje koja trenutno predsjedava EU. “Bosna i Hercegovina mora imati efikasan sistem odlučivanja zato je potrebno …

BiH je postigla mali napredak u ispunjenju uslova za pridruživanje EU, a politička klima se pogoršala, navodi se u jučer objavljenom godišnjem izvještaju o napretku BiH ka EU. Izvještaj o napretku predsjedavajućem Vijeća ministara BiH Nikoli Špiriću uručio je šef Delegacije EK u BiH Dimitris Kurkulas.

International High Representative to Bosnia-Herzegovina Valentin Inzko thinks it is time for further steps when it comes to the Dayton Accords. “Dayton is definitely the best Constitution that could have been written in an airport in the space of three weeks, because, above all, it put an end to the …

The war crimes trial of Radovan Karadzic, who led Bosnian Serbs into a 1992-1995 war that killed 100,000 people, will start on October 26 in The Hague, judges ordered on Thursday. Karadzic, 64, who has unsuccessfully tried to have the trial delayed and have charges against him dropped, faces life …

Tužilaštvo Federacije BiH potpuno je razvlaštena institucija. Zvanično postoje, imaju milionski budžet, desetine zaposlenih, ali kada se sve sabere, njihov je utjecaj, najblaže rečeno, skroman. Institucije koje su lav od papira čest su slučaj u BiH. Nije to izum ovdašnjih političkih umova, ali je praksa koju su svesrdno prigrlili. Zemlja …

The Serbian Supreme Court (VSS) has rejected the Croatian Justice Ministry’s extradition request for Željko Milovanović, the court announced on Tuesday. Milanović is suspected of killing weekIy Nacional owner Ivo Pukanić.