On April 25 in Strasbourg, Bosnian Foreign Minister, Zlatko Lagumdzija, expressed hope and commitment that the country would soon implement the 2009 European Court of Human Rights, ECHR, ruling, which says Bosnia must change its constitution to allow ethnic minorities to run for top posts.
Read More »Stefan Fule urged for Bosnian summit in Brussels on EU tasks
Fule said in Sarajevo on April 24 that Bosnian politicians should come to Brussels and sort out a programme of coordination of EU-related issues. He said agreement was needed between all
Read More »Croatia and Bosnia to seek solutions for bilateral disputes
Croatian and Bosnian officials on April 24 exchanged views on a range of outstanding issues, ranging from the Neum corridor to the port of Ploce and EU-standard border checkpoints. Croatian officials on Tuesday presented Bosnia’s Foreign Ministry
Read More »Borislav Mikelic set for retrial
Borislav Mikelic will be retried at the request of his lawyer after being sentenced to 20 years imprisonment in 1993 in absentia. A pretrial hearing will be held on April 23
Read More »Bosnia begins trial of eight Muslims for war crimes
Eight Bosnian Muslim wartime officials went on trial on Thursday accused of the torture and abuse of Serbs in detention camps near the Serb-besieged capital Sarajevo, 20 years after the start of the 1992-95 war.
Read More »Bosnia adopts budget seeking IMF deal on next month
Bosnia’s central government approved the budget for 2012 on Wednesday as the country seeks talks next month with IMF on a new loan deal. The adoption of the budget was delayed so far because misunderstandings of Serb, Croat and Muslim leaders.
Read More »Bulgarian FM says NATO must give a strong signal to Western Balkans
NATO should send a message to Western Balkans that the door is still open. This would be a strong motivation for countries to reform, said Bulgarian Foreign Minister Nikolai Mladenov in Brussels, where he met alliance’s foreign and defence ministers. Mladenov gave Bosnia as an example, saying that it achieved …
Read More »Azerbaijan andBosnia discuss bilateral cooperation in the field of agriculture
Azerbaijani Agriculture minister Ismet Abasov met on Tuesday with a Bosnian delegation headed by Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Agriculture Jerko Ivankovic-Lijanovic. The two sides discussed about bilateral cooperation in the field of agriculture. Abbasov said there are favorable soil and climatic conditions Azerbaijan, high export potential and favorable …
Read More »Bosnian Serbs react to FM remarks on NATO
Bosnian FM Zlatko Lagumdzija said on Monday that he hopes Bosnia would join NATO by 2014, marking a hundred years since World War I started in Sarajevo. The ruling party in the Republika Srpska reacted on Tuesday saying that the FM was spreading his own personal views rather than the …
Read More »Karadzic wants to postpone his defence case
Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic asked the Yugoslavian war crimes court Wednesday to postpone the start of his defence case for almost a year, saying he needs to more time to prepare. Facing 11 counts of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity, Karadzic submitted
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