Bosnia Hertegovina

High Representative of the international community in Bosnia-Herzegovina Valentin Inzko will be in Belgrade for a working visit today. Inzko will meet with Serbian President Boris Tadić, Deputy Prime Minister Božidar Đelić and Minister for Labor and Social Policy Rasim Ljajić, his office (OHR) announced. He is also scheduled to …

Bosnian forensic experts have begun exhuming a mass grave in the east of the country believed to hide the remains of Bosniak civilians killed in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre. The remains of eight people were discovered yesterday on a site in Kaldrmica village, near Srebrenica. The preliminary examination of the …

Bosnia’s multi-ethnic moderate party was the big winner in October elections, but the lack of viable coalition partners has left the playing field open once again to ethno-nationalist parties who are bent on maintaining politically opportunistic instability. By Anes Alic for ISN Insights. Three ethno-nationalist parties and one moderate, multi-ethnic …

The Peace Implementation Council (PIC) Steering Board urged Bosnian politicians Wednesday (December 1st) to form governments at all levels — as soon as possible — that will work to implement reforms and accelerate the country’s EU and NATO bids. In a communiqué released after their two-day meeting in Sarajevo, the …

The House of Representatives of the central parliament held its first session Tuesday (November 30th) since the October 3rd general elections. The chamber is composed of 42 lawmakers — 28 from the Federation of BiH and 14 from Republika Srpska. The Social Democratic Party, which emerged as the most popular …

An appeals chamber of the Court of BiH will discuss a motion Monday (November 29th) filed by Branimir Glavas against his war crimes sentence. The former Croatian lawmaker was sentenced in July in Croatia to eight years in prison for war crimes against Serbian civilians during the 1991-1995 conflict. Glavas, …

Former Slovenian President Milan Kucan, who was recently appointed as Slovenia’s special rapporteur for BiH, met with Republika Srpska President Milorad Dodik on Wednesday in Banja Luka to discuss the current political situation in BiH. Kucan said that his role would be to contact representatives of the three communities in …

A court in Belgrade convicted two men Monday (November 22nd) of war crimes committed in the Bosnian municipality of Zvornik in 1992. Branko Grujic got six years in prison and co-defendant Branko Popovic was sentenced to 15. The two former local officials were found guilty of illegal detention, inhumane treatment …

President of the Serb republic (RS) in Bosnia Milorad Dodik announced on Tuesday that he has named Aleksandar Džombić prime minister designate. The 42-year-old previously served as minister of finance of the

Bosnia is a country “irreversibly divided” along ethnic lines, Bosnian Serb President Milorad Dodik told a Serbian paper on Monday, 15 years after a peace deal ended the country’s inter-ethnic war in the 1990s. “Bosnia is divided in an irreversible way” and “they (the international community) will