Bosnia Hertegovina

Bosnia-Herzegovina Presidency Chairman Bakir Izetbegovic discussed Bosnia’s objective to join the Alliance with NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen earlier on Wednesday. “The Euro-Atlantic integration process is the only realistic platform that

Milorad Dodik, the president of the Serb Republic (RS), said on Monday that the recent commemoration of the war in Sarajevo was another attempt to assign guilt only to Serbs. He said he does not oppose the remembrance of victims of the war, Muslim and Serb, but he thinks that …

To mark 20 years since the start siege, it was announced in Bosnia that the Sarajevo Siege Museum will be built in the next two years. At a press conference on Thursday, the “Virtual FAMA collection – The Siege of Sarajevo” and “The Sarajevo Siege Museum – The Art of …

Germany and UK urged Bosnia on Tuesday to make important progress towards EU and NATO membership. “2012 can be the year when Bosnia-Hercegovina makes decisive strides towards both membership of the EU and NATO,” German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle and his British counterpart William Hague said, according to the Bosnian …

Bosnia will mark on Friday 20 years since the 1992 war, a war that has left deeply divided the country’s Muslims, Serbs and Croats. War started on April 6, 1992, the same date when Bosnia was recognized as an independent country. 

Bosnia hopes to formally join Nato’s membership action plan during its May summit, a penultimate step to joining the alliance. Bosnian Defence Minister Muhamed Ibrahimovic said “We hope that during the Chicago summit, Bosnia-Hercegovina will join the membership action plan and that in September it will launch its first annual …

Chairman of the Bosnia-Herzegovina Presidency Bakir Izetbegović said the country can become an EU member in 8 to 10 years. He said the prediction is a realistic time-frame. “It is realistic if we act responsibly, if we do not keep making delays of several years which have put us last …

Bosnian Foreign Minister Zlatko Lagumdjia said that he has not decided yet whether  to support Serbian Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremic for the post of Chairman of the UN General Council.

On Tuesday, Seselj stated during his closing arguments that Serbs were not the aggressors, since they had only defended their land. “Serbs were not aggressors, and I did not encourage anyone to commit

Vojislav Seselj will today continue his closing argument before the Hague Tribunal, where he is on trial for war crimes in Croatia, Bosnia and Serbia. Seselj’s closing argument was pushed last week from Monday and Tuesday to Wednesday and Thursday, after he underwent a second surgery when the defibrillator he …