Bosnia Hertegovina

The mission of Canadian troops in BiH officially ended on Monday (March 29th) with five officers and one non-commissioned soldier returning home. Canadian Ambassador to BiH Pierre Guimond noted at a ceremony in Sarajevo that Canada was among the first countries to send peacekeepers. He said that BiH is moving …

SARAJEVO Transkripti prisluškivanih telefonskih razgovora pomoćnika ministra sigurnosti BiH Vjekoslava Vukovića bit će dostavljeni tužilaštvu i istražnim agencijama u BiH kako bi se utvrdilo ko je za potrebe hrvatskih obavještajnih službi snimao njegove razgovore. Ivo Miro Jović, delegat u Domu naroda parlamenta BiH, kaže da postoje dokazi da je Vuković …

Senior EU and US officials will travel to Sarajevo in April to meet with Bosnian leaders in an apparent attempt to ease political tensions that have been mounting in the ethnically fragmented Balkan country as it prepares to hold general elections in October.

SARAJEVO Problem raspodjele nepokretne vojne imovine neće biti riješen do predstojećeg NATO samita 22. aprila, na kojem će ponovo biti razmatrana aplikacija BiH za Akcioni plan za članstvo (MAP). Podjela vojne imovine jedan je od ključnih preduslova za BiH za dobijanje članstva u MAP-u, što je posljednji korak prije punopravnog …

The foreign ministers of Bosnia, Croatia, Montenegro and Serbia agreed to intensify cooperation. This would come with the aim of solving the problem of refugees and internally displaced persons, a problem which has not been resolved in any one of those countries, a joint statement said.

The European Commission (EC) will publish a report on April 15th regarding Albania’s progress in meeting criteria for EU visa liberalisation. A similar evaluation will be made for Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH); a high-ranking EC official was quoted as saying on Wednesday (March 24th). Brussels has reportedly urged officials in …

SARAJEVO Strane državnike tokom posjete BiH osigurava posebna jedinica Državne agencije za istrage i zaštitu (SIPA) i njeni djelatnici štitili su u utorak brojnu delegaciju NATO-a koju je predvodio generalni sekretar ove organizacije Anders Fog Rasmusen.

MADRID, SARAJEVO, BANJALUKA Predstavnici američke administracije i španskog predsjedništva EU ovih dana vode razgovore sa liderima bh. političkih stranaka o tekstu nove deklaracije o opredijeljenosti BiH za evroatlantske integracije, potvrdio je za “Nezavisne” Dragan Čović, predsjednik HDZ BiH. On je u srijedu u Madridu razgovarao sa Miguelom Angelom Moratinosom, španskim …

NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen on Tuesday (March 23rd) told Bosnian leaders that while doors of the Alliance remain open to BiH, the country must implement all necessary reforms. Among those cited were changes to the constitution

Chairman of Bosnia’s Presidency Haris Silajdžić said that he had received a promise from NATO that Bosnia would join the alliance. This would happen once it had fulfilled the necessary requests, he explained. Silajdžić pointed out that the Bosnian Presidency would at the next session discuss surplus armaments, but also …