Bosnia Hertegovina

Serbian Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremić’s bid for the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) chairman has not yet been debated by officials in Sarajevo. This is according to Bosnia-Herzegovina Assistant Foreign Minister Ana Trišić-Babić.

Bosnian forensic experts last year exhumed the remains of 413 people who went missing during the country’s 1990s war, bringing the total number of victims found to some 22,000.

The interior ministry of the Serb entity sent a complaint to the State Prosecutor on Tuesday demanding it reconsider termination of the Dobrovoljacka war-crime probe. The letter follows the decision of an international prosecutor, Jude Romano, engaged

Bosnia faces many challenges before it can apply for EU membership but the country must not miss its chance, a debate in Sarajevo on Monday heard. Bosnia lags far behind other countries in the region in its efforts to join the European

Bosnia’s state prosecution has suspended an investigation into 58 people suspected of assisting Hague indictee Radovan Karadzic while he was in hiding. Karadzic, who is currently on trial at the Hague Tribunal accused of crimes against humanity and genocide in Bosnia, was in hiding in Bosnia and Serbia from 1996 …

Bosnia’s prosecution said Tuesday it has decided to halt a probe for alleged war crimes of former wartime president Ejup Ganic and 13 others in a case also investigated by neighbouring Serbia.

As Vjekoslav Bevanda started official consultations with his proposed ministers, he expressed confidence about the future priorities of the new state government. After receiving the necessary approvals last week, Bosnia’s new Prime Minister, Vjekoslav Bevanda, on January 16 officially opened consultations with future ministers.

Country’s two mainly Bosniak parties have agreed on their ministerial candidates for the new state government. Following the end of Bosnia’s prolonged political stalemate at the end of December 2011 and the appointment of the new Prime Minister on January 12, the country’s six main parties have started proposing ministers …

Bosnian lawmakers backed Vjekoslav Bevanda as the country’s new prime minister on Thursday, while a complete government is expected to be appointed next week. Bevanda was supported in the State Parliament by 31 votes; two MPs voted against him and three abstained.

A prosecution witness in the trial of wartime Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic described on Tuesday before the United Nations War Crimes Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia how he survived the killing of 1,000 Muslims in eastern town of Srebrenica in July 1995.