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During a press conference following his meeting with representatives of the OHR and the World Bank about electric power distribution and payment of pensions, the RS Prime Minister, Mladen Ivanic, said that the RS government had nothing to do with the controversial Srebrenica report. “Firstly, this report was not officially published, it was p [...]

BiH Presidency chairman Beriz Belkic told BHTV 1 last night that state institutions have to prove that the state of BiH is not behind possible violations of UN resolutions and military trade with Iraq. If this is not done, things will not go our way, Belkic noted. “That would not be good for BiH, absolutely not good, because BiH is a member o [...]

A BiH company has violated the UN Security Council’s resolutions and, with regard to this, the US Administration has delivered its protest to the BiH Government. These days, the US Ambassador to BiH, Clifford Bond, has informed the BiH Foreign Minister, Zlatko Lagumdzija, that the US Government had received the information from the Middle East, acc [...]

With regard to the report on Srebrenica published by the RS Government in Banja Luka, the European Union decisively stands behind positions made by the High Representative, Paddy Ashdown, on Tuesday, the officials at the EU Ministerial Council and European Commission confirmed to the SENSE News agency (Dnevni Avaz, p 9). “The Hague Tribunal [...]

Some 1,800 Bosniak soldiers are estimated to have been killed in clashes as they were trying to flee. About a hundred are likely to have died of exhaustion, while some 100 were killed by Serb forces out of revenge or unfamiliarity with international law in Srebrenica in July 1995. The information is contained in a statement by the RS government bur [...]

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 starts toda [...]

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 [...]