Bosnia Hertegovina

Bosnians will head to the polls on October 3 in what has been described as a crucial post-war general election, with the outcome likely determining wether the country will move forward on its EU path or remain stuck in political deadlock.

The trial of former Bosnian Serb political leader Radovan Karadžić continues on Wednesday before the Hague tribunal with more witness testimonies. The prosecution’s fifth witness will be former Sky News reporter Aernhout van Lynden, after which former EU mission chief in Bosnia-Herzegovina Colm Doyle will take the stand.

Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini is chairing the 12th Council of Ministers of the Adriatic-Ionian Initiative, AII, which began in Ancona, Italy on Wednesday. The Council, which brings together the foreign ministers of Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Greece, Croatia, Serbia, Slovenia and Italy, is aimed at preparing an EU …

Bulgarian Foreign Minister Nikolai Mladenov, who has underlined the Western Balkans’ place in his country’s foreign policy priorities, has started a tour of the region that from May 5 to 14 2010 will take him to Macedonia, Serbia, Montenegro, Kosovo, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Albania. Mladenov, Foreign Minister in the …

SARAJEVO Pravobranilaštvo BiH zatražilo je od nadležnih sudova da vojne objekte uknjiže kao vlasništvo države BiH, a Općinski sud u Sarajevu prihvatio je ovaj zahtjev i već počeo uknjižbu, zbog čega je reagovao i Ured visokog predstavnika (OHR). Na upis vojne imovine kao državne svojine ne gledaju svi isto pa …

The Council of Europe’s parliamentary assembly, PACE, warned Bosnia on Thursday that it must urgently take measures to change its constitution, notably to end discrimination against minorities, or face serious consequences. “Bosnia and Herzegovina must urgently launch an institutionalized process for preparing a comprehensive package of amendments to the Constitution …

SARAJEVO Vijeće ministara BiH zadužilo je u četvrtak Komisiju za državnu imovinu da u naredna dva mjeseca napravi preliminarnu listu imovine potrebne državnim institucijama. Odluka je usvojena većinom glasova, a protiv je bio samo Safet Halilović, ministar ljudskih prava i izbjeglica BiH. “Članovi Komisije ovu listu treba da utvrde konsenzusom”, …

SARAJEVO Sigurnosne agencije u Bosni i Hercegovini nadgledaju organizacije koje se povezuju s radikalizmom i zabranit će njihov rad ukoliko izađu iz zakonskog okvira. Izjavio je to Sadik Ahmetović, ministar sigurnosti BiH, u četvrtak na međunarodnoj ministarskoj konferenciji “Interkulturalni dijalog i unutrašnja sigurnost”, održanoj u Sarajevu. “Namjera nam je da …

The foreign ministers of Turkey, Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina met on Wednesday in Ankara, Turkey, on Wednesday. Ahmet Davutoglu, Gordan Jandroković and Sven Alkalaj agreed that the relations between these three countries are of strategic importance for the improvement of the general situation in southeastern Europe.

The European Union on Tuesday proposed Georgia be included in its visa facilitation and readmission mechanism, increasing the number of such beneficiary countries to nine. The proposal was made by the European Commission, the executive arm of the 27-nation bloc.