Bosnia Hertegovina

Vojislav Seselj will today continue his closing argument before the Hague Tribunal, where he is on trial for war crimes in Croatia, Bosnia and Serbia. Seselj’s closing argument was pushed last week from Monday and Tuesday to Wednesday and Thursday, after he underwent a second surgery when the defibrillator he …

Vojislav Seselj said on Thursday that ‘Seseljevci’ did not commit any crimes in Sarajevo. On the second day of his closing

Serbia and Bosnia have agreed to improve bilateral relations in what officials called the start of a new era since their 1992-95 war. On Wednesday, Serbian Foreign Minister

EU Enlargement Commissioner Stefan Fule has stated that “Bosnia-Herzegovina can only join the EU as a single state”. Fule stated Wednesday that the year 2012 would be crucial for Bosnia-Herzegovina’s progress towards the EU.

Hague Tribunal Spokeswoman Nerma Jelacic said late Tuesday that Vojislav Seselj had returned from the hospital where he was transferred earlier in the day. She added and that he would begin

Prime Minister Vjekoslav Bevanda said Bosnia decided to start negotiations for a new arrangement with the IMF. Bosnia will ask the International

Milorad Dodik, president of Republika Srpska, Bosnia’s Serb-dominated entity, on Monday said if NATO membership for Bosnia becomes imminent, he will call a referendum in the entity to see if Serbs want to join the alliance.

U.S. Republican Senator Richard Lugar has introduced the NATO Enlargement Bill, calling on President Obama to provide “a clear roadmap” for the accession of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Macedonia, and Montenegro to NATO at the Chicago summit in late May.

On March 9, the Prime Minister of Bosnia and Herzegovina visited Brussels were he met with President of the European Council Herman Van Rompuy. Mr. Herman Van Rompuy praised Bosnia’s political efforts and urged for more reforms: 

Bosnia’s war crimes prosecutors on Friday indicted five former members of a Croat paramilitary force for the torture of hundreds of Bosnian Serbs, most of them civilians, in the south of the country during the 1992-95 Bosnian war.