Croatia says that a big jump in migrants and refugees being returned to Bosnia is thanks to Sarajevo finally implementing a bilateral ‘readmissions’ deal. Data from Bosnia suggests otherwise. Croatia has been sending migrants and refugees back to Bosnia and Herzegovina since 2017 on the basis of a bilateral agreement …
Read More »Bosnian Serb leaders back Erdogan in Turkish election
The separatist Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik has called on Turkish citizens to vote for President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in next Sunday’s election, saying his persistence and patriotism have turned Turkey into ‘a progressive and modern country’. Dodik, the president of Republika Srpska, one of Bosnia-Herzegovina’s two autonomous entities, threw …
Read More »Bosnia’s Demographic Crisis: The Disappearance of Glamoc
Mirroring the demographic decline of the entire country, a massive and still-deepening population drop in the last 30 years will likely see Glamoc, a picturesque town in Bosnia and Herzegovina, empty completely. Squeezed between pastures and hills, and circled by green belts of forest, Glamoc sits in a lonesome mountainous …
Read More »Effective Impunity: How a Wartime Rapist Avoided Punishment in Bosnia
The case of a convicted rapist who fled Bosnia and Herzegovina and evaded a jail sentence highlights yet again the problem of war crimes convicts and defendants dodging justice by escaping to countries that will not extradite them. After being convicted, Ilija Juric never showed up to serve his sentence …
Read More »How Bosnia’s Politicians Forgot the Sacrifice of State Department Friends
The resignations of four State Department officials protesting US inaction on the Bosnian war helped turn the tide of US opinion – but Bosnia has never recognised or rewarded their principled action.In late August 1992, George Kenney resigned as acting head of the Yugoslavia desk at the US State Department. …
Read More »Who Undermines Fragile Peace In BiH? – Analysis
The situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina is becoming increasingly complicated, not just because of the intensification of the armed conflict in Ukraine, but also because of the process of establishment of the government after the general elections in October 2022. At the level of Bosnia and Herzegovina the government was …
Read More »BINKA: Ugljanin cannot represent all Bosniaks in Serbia
The leader of SDA Sandžak, Sulejman Ugljanin, at the last press conference, came up with a figure of about 70 percent of Bosniaks, represented by his and the Justice and Reconciliation Party (SPP). The gathering came after the signing of an agreement between the two parties on the formation of …
Read More »Dodik: Predsedništvo BiH ne treba da prihvati pomoć NATO-a
Predsednik Republike Srpske Milorad Dodik izjavio je danas da Predsedništvo Bosne i Hercegovine ne bi trebalo da prihvati pomoć koju je NATO odobrio BiH. Dodik je rekao da Predsedništvo BiH koje je za to nadležno po Ustavu, nikada nije ni tražilo pomoć NATO-a. Na nedavnom ministarskom sastanku NATO-a u Briselu …
Read More »Mehmedović se sastao sa Kurtijem: Sporazumima omogućeno putovanje u BiH i na Kosovo sa ličnim kartama
Ovi sporazumi će omogućiti građanima Kosova i Bosne i Hercegovine da slobodno putuju jedni ka drugima bez potrebe za vizama i samo sa ličnim kartama, naveo je Kurti Premijer Kosova Albin Kurti, zajedno sa potpredsednicom Vlade za pitanja manjina i ljudska prava Emilijom Redžepi, sastao se danas sa Šemsudinom Mehmedovićem, …
Read More »Dodik o potezu zamenika ministra odbrane BiH koji je odbio da se sastane sa britanskim ministrom: Nema potrebe da se komunicira sa strancima
„Kao što ste mogli da primetite britanski ambasador u BiH Džulian Reili nije bio ni pozvan na inauguraciju Željke Cvijanović u Predsedništvo“, rekao je Dodik. Ponovio je da će se u skladu sa utvrđenom politikom ponašati i ostali predstavnici RS-a. „Britanija ima veoma loše namere i pokušavaju da prikažu da …
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