Croatia

The War Crimes Council of the Belgrade High Court convicted on Monday Pano Bulat to 15 and Rade Vranešević to 12 years in prison. The two defendants were found guilty of the murder of six Croat civilians in Banski Kovačevac, Croatia, in March 1992.

Veritas Documentation Center President Savo Štrbac said a court decision to reduce jail sentence of Mirko Norac was disappointing and unjust. The Supreme Court of Croatia reduced by a year former Croat General Mirko Norac ‘s prison sentence.

Croatian President Ivo Josipovic will pay his first official visit to Slovenia on Friday. Croatian President Josipovic is slated to meet with his Slovenian counterpart Danilo Tuerk, Speaker of the Parliament Pavel Gantar, Prime Minister Borut Pahor, Ljubljana’s mayor Zoran Jankovic as well as representatives of Croatian community in Slovenia. …

Verdicts in the trials of Pane Bulat and Rade Vranesevic, former Republika Srpska Krajina soldiers charged with the murder of six Croat civilians in the town of Banski Kovacevac in Croatia in 1992, will be delivered on March 15 at the War Crimes Court in Belgrade.

Macedonian Foreign Minister Antonio Milososki will pay official visit to Croatia on Tuesday. He is slated to discuss with his Croatian counterpart Gordan Jandrokovic. He will also meet with Croatia’s PM Jadranka Kosor and President of the Foreign policy commission of Croatia’s parliament Franjo Matosic.

Serbian, Croatian and Slovenian top officials have failed to agree on a formula that would allow both Belgrade and Pristina delegations to participate in a regional conference on the Western Balkans to

Serbian President Boris Tadic is set to meet with Croatian Prime Minister Jadranka Kosor and her Slovenian counterpart, Borut Pahor in the town of Ptuj in Slovenia on Friday. According to the Slovenian press agency STA, the top officials are set to discuss a conference on the EU integration of …

Russia and Croatia on Tuesday signed an agreement for Croatia to join South Stream, a Moscow- backed pipeline project rivaling the EU-sponsored Nabucco project, Russia informs. Russian Energy Minister Sergei Shmatko and Croatian Economy, Labor and Entrepreneurship Minister Djuro Popijac signed the agreement in the presence of Russian and Croatian …

Croatian Assembly Speaker Luka Bebić and his Serbian counterpart Slavica Đukić-Dejanović meet to discuss cooperation between the two countries. After the talks at the Croatian Assembly in Zagreb, Bebić said that Croatia wished to “establish and develop good neighborly relations with Serbia”.

Croatian President Ivo Josipovic said that the most contentious points in Serbian-Croatian relations are a border issue and problems related to the wartime and post-war period. Josipovic, said that the border problem with Serbia was not as big as the one with Slovenia and that it would be easier to …