Eurasia Press & News
SARAJEVO, Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) – The parliament’s constitutional commission approved the draft amendment regarding the status of the Brcko District on Monday (March 23rd). According to the bill, the district’s legal status, as defined by a binding arbitration process that took place from 1996 to 1999, will be protected …
Read More »Western Powers to Debate Bosnia’s Future
Representatives from the EU, US, Russia among others are meeting in Sarajevo where they are expected to debate the international community’s future role in Bosnia and confirm the country’s new top international envoy. “The main focus of my mandate will be aimed at fulfillment of conditions for the closure of …
Read More »Croatia Libertas files lawsuits against senior BiH politicians
SARAJEVO, Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) – The Mostar-based NGO Croatia Libertas announced on Sunday (March 22nd) that it has filed suit against several Bosnian Muslim politicians and military leaders it accuses of war crimes. Croatia Libertas filed the lawsuits with the BiH prosecutor as well as with the Mostar cantonal …
Read More »Serbs Jailed for Wartime Herzegovina Crimes
The Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina has issued a first-instance verdict, sentencing Krsto Savic and Milko Mucibabic for crimes against humanity committed in eastern Herzegovina. By a first-instance verdict, handed down by the State Court, Krsto Savic has been sentenced to 20 years’ imprisonment for participation in a joint criminal …
Read More »Serbia, Bosnia Absent at Kosovo Police Summit
Police representatives from around the region were invited to Pristina’s Grand Hotel on Monday, at a conference against organised crime and trafficking held by Kosovo’s Ministry of Internal Affairs. Officials from Turkey, Hungary, Bulgaria, Greece, Slovenia, Croatia, Montenegro, Albania and Macedonia attended, while invited representatives from Serbia and Bosnia and …
Read More »Albania, Bosnia to Improve Relations
Albania and Bosnia and Herzegovina have agreed to improve economic and diplomatic relations and work jointly towards their faster membership in the European Union and NATO. The agreement to improve relations between the two countries came during the official visit of Albanian Premier Sali Berisha to the Bosnian capital of …
Read More »US Worried over ‘Blocked Progress’ in Bosnia
US State Secretary Hillary Clinton has cheered Bosnia’s parliament for making headway in adopting amendments on the disputed Brcko district but also echoed concerns that bitter ethnic rivalries could block the country’s path to EU and NATO membership. “The United States of America remain committed to seeing the future advance …
Read More »Karadzic: New Status Conference on April 2
A new pre-trial status conference in the case of Radovan Karadzic is due to take place on April 2, 2009. The Trial Chamber of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, ICTY, has announced that another pre-trial status conference in the case of Radovan Karadzic will take place on …
Read More »UN tribunal hands down 20-year sentence to former top Bosnian Serb official
The appeals chamber of the United Nations war crimes tribunal set up after the Balkan conflicts of the 1990s today upheld earlier convictions of a former top Bosnian Serb official and sentenced him to 20 years in prison for deportations, forcible transfer and persecution of non-Serb civilians during the conflict …
Read More »ICTY: Prlic Requests Temporary Release
The Defence of Jadranko Prlic has filed a motion with the Hague Tribunal, requesting temporary release of the indictee. Jadranko Prlic, a former official of the so-called Croatian community of Herzeg-Bosnia, who is on trial at The Hague, has asked the Court, via his legal representative, to be released from …
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