Dnevni medijski izvještaji

Following three postponements, the trial of 16 people accused of provoking clashes on 7 May, when the laying of the foundation stone for Ferhadija mosque was prevented, began before the District Court in Banja Luka. At the beginning of the trial, Presiding Judge Mirela Jagodic said that all the accused were present in court. The suspects are accuse [...]

Approximately 3,200 educational workers in the Central Bosnian Canton are going on general strike as of Monday, in spite of a fact the cantonal government has fulfilled a part of their demands including the payment of the two backlog salaries from the last year. (Oslobodjenje, front page, pages 4-5).
In light of a new school year that start [...]

BiH State Border Service assumed control over international border crossings in Gorica and Osoja, thereby taking full control over 97% of national borders of BiH. “The last remaining unit State Border Service will be deployed in Strmica at the end of September, which will then bring the State Border Service to control the entire land borders [...]

Dnevni Avaz (front page) reports that the Federation Prime Minister, Alija Behmen, withdrew yesterday from the Parliamentary procedure the proposed Defamation Law, thereby complying with the request of the OHR and the Federation Human Rights Ombudsman, who argued that the proposed law was not in line with European conventions on human rights. The c [...]

Federation Prime Minister Alija Behmen announced yesterday in Sarajevo that pensioners in the Federation will receive their August pension on time - on Saturday, despite the recent removal of the Pension Fund acting director Bozo Misura and his deputy. “Pensions should be in the news only if their disbursement is delayed. But, I want to stre [...]

The BiH Minister of Civil Affairs and Communications, Svetozar Mihajlovic, and the Croatian Foreign Minister, Tonino Picula, opened on Monday the border crossing in Hrvatska Kostajnica and the bridge connecting BiH and Croatia. Mihajlovic: “From today on, this reconstructed bridge should connect people, contribute to the improvement of neighb [...]

Dnevni Avaz (p. 2) reports that the BiH will have to make a decision as to the signing of a bilateral agreement with the US over the exemption of US personnel from the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court. In a statement for the daily, the chairman of the BiH Presidency, Beriz Belkic, said that the most important thing is that the US Ad [...]

In the incidents occurred following the BiH/FRY football match in Sarajevo on Wednesday night, 19 police officers, six funs from BiH and a fun from Yugoslavia were injured. Journalists were told at a Thursday’s press conference in the Sarajevo Canton Interior Ministry that two policemen had suffered serious injuries. Minister Almir Dzuvo said [...]

The High Representative, Paddy Ashdown, on Wednesday visited an agricultural laboratory in Mostar, which supports the economic development in the area and analyzes the composition of the soil and water thereby helping the organic production. “The agriculture might be a great source of creating and accumulating the wealth in this country,̶ [...]

The SFOR Commander, John Sylvester, sent a letter to the BiH Presidency members in which he confirmed a NATO position that the creation of a single defense ministry at the state level was actually one of the main pre-conditions for BiH’s accession to the Partnership for Peace Program. (Oslobodjenje, p 3, Dnevni Avaz, p 2, Jutarnje Novine, p 5 [...]