According to the preliminary results of the referendum, the border arbitrage agreement with Croatia was accepted by a majority of Slovenians who voted. The incomplete results show that the turnout was at 42.27 percent, while the agreement was supported by 51.48 percent.
Read More »Slovenians vote in referendum on Croatian border agreement
Slovenians are voting in a referendum on Sunday (June 6th) on an agreement on settling their country’s border issues with neighbouring Croatia
Read More »Croatia’s Supreme Court takes up Glavas appeal
The Supreme Court on Monday (May 31st) started discussing an appeal of the sentence handed down to former parliament member Branimir Glavas. In May of last year, he was sentenced to ten years in prison for war crimes against ethnic Serbs in the city of Osijek in 1991. Soon after …
Read More »Croatian President visited Republika Srpska for the first time
Croatian President Ivo Josipovic has made the first ever visit by to a Croatian head of state to Republika Srpska (RS). On Sunday (May 30th), he visited three sites of mass killings of Serbs, Croats and Bosniaks during the 1992-1995 Bosnian conflict, paying tribute to innocent victims in Sijekovac, Brisevo …
Read More »Brammertz expects more from Croatia
UN war crimes tribunal chief prosecutor Serge Brammertz met on Friday (May 28th) with Croatian Prime Minister Jadranka Kosor to discuss Croatia’s level of co-operation with The Hague. He urged the country to do more to boost the tribunal’s investigations, reiterating that Croatia’s co-operation is an essential
Read More »USA and UK propose Boris Tadic to mediate the talks between Zagreb and Ljubljana
US and UK diplomats think that Serbian President Boris Tadic could use his authority to be the mediator and influence a positive outcome of the Slovenian referendum for the arbitrary agreement for the border dispute with Croatia, scheduled for June 6, and also for
Read More »Balkan war crimes prosecutors gather in Croatia
Serge Brammertz, chief prosecutor at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, will join prosecutors from the region for a two-day conference in Brioni, Croatia on cooperation in war crimes prosecution.
Read More »U.S. Vice President expresses US support for Croatia’s EU bid
Croatian Prime Minister Jadranka Kosor met with U.S. Vice President Joseph Biden yesterday during an official visit to Washington D.C. Kosor called her visit “the most important day of my political career”. She did not meet with
Read More »Belgrade and Zagreb wanted to divide BiH, according to Ratko Mladic diaries
The Prosecutor’s Office of the war crimes tribunal in The Hague has revealed new excerpts from general Ratko Mladic’s war-time diaries. They make it evident that the Bosnian Serbs and Croats, with the help of the authorities
Read More »ICTY Prosecution Wants to Reopen Trial Against 6 Bosnian Croats
The prosecution at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia has asked for permission to reopen the trial of six former Bosnian Croat leaders, including Jadranko Prlic, due to possession of new evidence.
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