Bosnia Hertegovina

The EU foreign ministers yesterday extended the mandates of most special representatives worldwide, including Bosnia and Herzegovina’s (BiH) Valentin Inzko. His was due to expire next week. The EU justice and interior ministers are expected to extend Pieter Feith’s mandate as EU special representative to Kosovo by another six months …

Bosniak (Bosnian Muslim) deputies in the parliament of Bosnia’s Serb dominated part Republika Srpska have vetoed a referendum law adopted by the region’s parliament earlier in February, declaring it to be in violation of their community’s “vital national interests”. The chairman of the Bosniak caucus in the Republika Srpska parliament …

Bosnia and Herzegovina is due this month to annul one of the biggest post-war legal absurdities with Croatia and Serbia by signing agreements that will finally allow the punishment of convicted criminals holding dual citizenship, Anes Alic writes for ISN Security Watch. A number of people suspected of or indicted …

Croatia’s new president, Ivo Josipovic, said on Friday (February 19th) that any possible referendum on the independence of Bosnian Serbs would not affect the current structure of neighbouring BiH. Republika Srprka (RS) cannot change the current situation unilaterally, Josipovic said, adding that even if Bosnian Serbs hold a referendum, it …

Zapadni Balkan je glavni prioritet spoljne politike za EU i srećna sam što posjećujem region na jednom od mojih prvih putovanja u inostranstvo kao visoka predstavnica EU”, izjavila je u pisanom intervjuu za “Nezavisne novine” šef diplomatije Evropske unije Ketrin Ešton uoči svog dolaska u Sarajevo. Kako je juče najavljeno, …

US Ambassador to BiH Charles English said that the referendum issue in the entity of Republika Srpska is very sensitive, adding the United States would consider provocative any issue that endangers the country’s stability, sovereignty or territorial integrity. The US Ambassador deplored the lack of reform, saying the political stalemate …

High Representative Valentin Inzko briefed a visiting US Congressional delegation Monday (February 15th) on obstacles BiH faces in its reform process. He insisted that the country’s territorial integrity will not be

Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic asked on Monday (February 15th) that the UN war crimes tribunal force Germany, France, Croatia and Iran to give him documents related to arming Bosnian Muslims during the 1992-1995 Bosnian conflict.

SARAJEVO Vijeće za implementaciju mira u BiH (PIC) vjerovatno do oktobra ove godine neće moći preporučiti ukidanje OHR-a, kazao je juče u Sarajevu Valentin Incko, visoki predstavnik međunarodne zajednice i specijalni predstavnik Evropske unije za BiH.

Citizens of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) should be able to travel to the EU without visas by July, announced Tanja Fajon, European Parliament Rapporteur for Visa Liberalization for West Balkan Countries before the Parliament of BiH on Monday.