Bosnia Hertegovina

US State Secretary Hillary Clinton has cheered Bosnia’s parliament for making headway in adopting amendments on the disputed Brcko district but also echoed concerns that bitter ethnic rivalries could block the country’s path to EU and NATO membership. “The United States of America remain committed to seeing the future advance …

A new pre-trial status conference in the case of Radovan Karadzic is due to take place on April 2, 2009. The Trial Chamber of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, ICTY, has announced that another pre-trial status conference in the case of Radovan Karadzic will take place on …

The appeals chamber of the United Nations war crimes tribunal set up after the Balkan conflicts of the 1990s today upheld earlier convictions of a former top Bosnian Serb official and sentenced him to 20 years in prison for deportations, forcible transfer and persecution of non-Serb civilians during the conflict …

The Defence of Jadranko Prlic has filed a motion with the Hague Tribunal, requesting temporary release of the indictee. Jadranko Prlic, a former official of the so-called Croatian community of Herzeg-Bosnia, who is on trial at The Hague, has asked the Court, via his legal representative, to be released from …

A 21-year old imam (Islamic priest) from the Serbian region of Sandzak, was arrested in Bosnia for drug trafficking, local media reported on Wednesday. The imam was a part of a group that was arrested in the Bosnian capital over the past week, under suspicion of being a part of …

The Hague – Bosnian Serb leader Momcilo Krajisnik will hear on Tuesday afternoon if his appeal against a 27-year jail sentence for war crimes has been successful at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY). Krajisnik was found guilty in 2006 of various war crimes during the 1992-95 …

Bosnia’s new High Representative and EU Special Representative, Austrian diplomat Valentin Inzko, said he is coming to the troubled country with “mixed feelings”, encouraged by strong international support but also aware of the “heavy burden” of the difficult task that lies ahead. Over the weekend, local and international officials greeted …

One miner was killed and 14 others were injured over the weekend in an explosion of methane in a coal mine at Stranjani near central Bosnian town of Zenica. Two out of the 14 injured miners are in a critical condition with severe burns and Bosnian officials have been trying …

Bosnia’s new High Representative and EU Special Representative, Austrian diplomat Valentin Inzko, said he is coming to the troubled country with “mixed feelings”, encouraged by strong international support but also aware of the “heavy burden” of the difficult task that lies ahead. Over the weekend, local and international officials greeted …

The southern Bosnian city of Mostar is facing and a rapidly worsening economic and social crisis brought on by intractable political bickering that has blocked the establishment of a new city government and adoption of its budget for more than five months. The head of Mostar’s Red Cross, Alen Kajtaz, …