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The High Representative, Wolfgang Petritsch, is meeting with the political directors of the Steering Board of the Peace Implementation Council in Sarajevo on May 6 and 7. “During the two days of talks the High Representative and the Steering Board will discuss, among other things, the amendments to the Entity Constitutions put in place last [...]

The High Representative, Wolfgang Petritsch, together with the Chairman of the Council of Ministers, Dragan Mikerevic, on Friday convened the fifth Consultative Partnership Forum in the OHR building in Sarajevo, all Sarajevo dailies and news agencies, as well as Banja Luka Nezavisne Novine and Split-based Slobodna Dalmacija prominently reported on [...]

A promotional launch of the Public Broadcasting Service news show - BH TV One - which is scheduled to start broadcasting on May 7 on some 90 per cent of Bosnia and Herzegovina - was organised in Mostar’s Hotel Ero on Thursday. On behalf of the founding committee of the PBS, Slavo Kukic said that he had been involved in this project for the p [...]

Slobodna Dalmacija reports that the May 1 will be marked differently not only in the two BiH entities but also within entities themselves, cantons and municipalities. The daily notes that the Federation authorities passed a decision according to which May 1 and 2 are non-working days. However, the cantons and municipalities with Croat majority did [...]

The chairman of the BiH Presidency, Beriz Belkic, visited Srebrenica on Monday and had talks with municipal leaders in this town about the problems facing the municipality’s population and ways of overcoming them. Special attention was devoted to preparations for the UN-sponsored international donor conference scheduled for May 13 of this yea [...]

Upon his return from Madrid, where he met with the Spanish Foreign Minster, Jose Pique, BiH Minister of Foreign Affairs, Zlatko Lagumdzija, held a press conference in Sarajevo, where he informed the press that Spain and BiH have agreed on a more concrete cooperation in the field of economy. According to Lagumdzija, within the following two months, [...]

The BiH Presidency members and Chairman of the Council of Ministers Dragan Mikerevic said on Thursday upon returning from Strasbourg, where BiH became the 44th member of the Council of Europe, that authorities at all levels should meet their obligations coming from the accession to CoE, all BiH media report. Presidency Chairman Beriz Belkic said [...]

BiH joined the Council of Europe at a formal ceremony on Wednesday, a key step towards European integration for the impoverished Balkan country still struggling with the legacy of its 1992-95 war, all BiH media, AFP and Reuters reported. Walter Schwimmer, the General Secretary of the Council, the continent's top human rights watchdog, said BiH's ac [...]

By raising the BiH flag on a mast in front of the Council of Europe's building in Strasbourg on Wednesday and striking up the national anthem, BiH became the 44th member of the oldest European institution, ONASA reports. The ceremony was attended by the three-member BiH Presidency, members of the Council of Ministers and both chambers of the parlia [...]