The Republic of Srpska (RS) believes that crimes that took place during the war in Bosnia-Herzegovina should be condemned at any place and everywhere. This is according to a statement from the president of the Serb entity in Bosnia, Rajko Kuzmanović.
The South East Europe Media Organization (SEEMO) today strongly condemned the attack on journalist Rade Tešić. Tešić, who works for Euroblic, the Bosnian edition of Belgrade's Blic daily, on March 13 had his car, parked near his house in Doboj, Bosnia, set on fire.
President Boris Tadić said on Sunday that Serbia has nothing against the extradition of Ejup Ganić to Bosnia-Herzegovina. The Muslim member of Bosnia's war-time presidency is wanted in Serbia on a war crimes warrant, and in currently in Britain, after he was released from custody on bail.
RS President Rajko Kuzmanović said that it is unrealistic to expect any radical changes to be made to the Bosnia-Herzegovina Constitution. “This is an election year, a pre-election campaign, and judging by the approaches of most politicians, it has already started. Every opportunity is being used to promote parties and ...
Britain should apologize to the wartime member of Bosnia's presidency for mistreatment in prison, Chairman of the Bosnian Presidency Haris Silajdžić says. Silajdžić said that Ejup Ganić was denied basic human rights while detained, and that he was shocked by Ganić's claims he was denied access to consular assistance, to ...
The Serbian Justice Ministry stated that it sent a demand for the extradition Ejup Ganić to the British authorities. The demand and court documentation was sent for the 64-year-old former Muslim wartime member of Bosnia's presidency to be handed over to the Belgrade High Court in order to finish the ...
ASBIS has received Toshiba authorized distributor status for Bosnia and Herzegovina
Slovak FM Miroslav Lajčak says that the planned "EU and the Balkans" conference in Sarajevo "will not be a new Dayton". The Dayton, Ohio, talks ended the 1992-95 war in Bosnia, organizing that country into two entities.
Republic of Srpska (RS) PM Milorad Dodik says the arrest of former member of Bosnia's Presidency Ejup Ganić has "reinstated trust in the system of justice". Dodik said that “justice could never be too late, if those who had committed crimes found themselves before court and got ...
The arrest of a Bosnian war leader threatens to reopen deep wounds in the Balkans THE timing could not have been more inauspicious. Radovan Karadzic who had escaped arrest for alleged war crimes for so long had just begun his testimony at the UN’s war crimes tribunal in The Hague ...
Deputy Director of the Military Intelligence Agency Dragan Vladisavljević says Serbia will in 2010 open its military missions in Spain, Libya, Bosnia and Iraq. Presenting the report on the work of VOA (Vojno Obaveštajna Agencija) in 2009 to the parliament's Defense and Security Committee, Vladisavljević explained that the reason for ...
Former political leader of Serbs in Bosnia Radovan Karadžić begins his defense before the Hague Tribunal on Monday. Karadžić, who is defending himself, will have two days for his opening statement, which is the same amount of time the prosecution had on October 26, when the trial began.
The Serbian courts are expecting former Bosnia-Herzegovina Presidency member Ejup Ganić to be arrested at any moment, officials said. War Crimes Prosecution spokesperson Bruno Vekarić told Banja Luka daily Nezavisne Novine that he did not want to give more detailed comments on what happened ...
Serbian War Crimes Prosecutor Vladimir Vukčević denied allegations that Serbia was protecting Gen. Ratko Mladić, Beta reports. Mladić is the former military leader of Bosnia's Serbs and has been indicted by the Hague Tribunal for genocide against non-Serbs in Bosnia-Herzegovina.
Republic of Srpska (RS) Prime Minister Milorad Dodik said that his party does not negate Bosnia-Herzegovina, but that it will not allow RS to be negated. He told Sarajevo daily Dnevni Avaz that Bosnia-Herzegovina is “a part of an international project called the Dayton Peace Agreement within which there is ...
Serbian police (MUP) ended an operation started this morning, where they searched the home of Ratko Mladić in the Belgrade municipality of Banovo Brdo. The search for the former military leader of Bosnia's Serbs and Hague Tribunal began early on Tuesday with about ten officers from MUP's special units seen ...
Republic of Srpska (RS) PM Milorad Dodik says the announced referendum in this entity in Bosnia is unrelated to the election campaign. The referendum will be held in the RS in July at the latest if the Law on Referendum gets vetoed by the Bosnia's House of Peoples.
The U.S. led and won wars in Bosnia and Kosovo, similar to the one it is currently fighting in Afghanistan, says Richard Holbrooke. The former Clinton administration Balkans envoy, now U.S. Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, spoke in Doha, Qatar.
High Representative in Bosnia Valentin Inzko said that European Commission Vice-President Catherine Ashton will visit the Balkans soon. Inzko said that Ashton, who is also the foreign and security policies chief of the EU, will be in the Balkans either this month or in March.
Outgoing Croat President Stjepan Mesić repeated that he would use the country's military to intervene in neighboring Bosnia. He was quoted as saying that he would "cut off the corridor connecting the Republic of Srpska (Serb entity in Bosnia) if it were to try and secede from Bosnia-Herzegovina."