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Oslobodjenje reports that the BiH Election Commission will ban HDZ, SDA, SRS (Serb Radical Party) and HD (Croat Christian Democrats) from running in the upcoming elections in October unless they eliminate all officials previously removed by the High Representative due to obstruction of the Dayton peace agreement. The daily notes, quoting anonymous [...]

The agreement on the implementation of the BiH Constitutional Court’s decision on the constituency of the peoples signed on Wednesday in full by presidents of SDP, NHI and Party for BiH and with two reservations by leaders of the four political parties from the RS (SDS, PDP, SNSD and SPRS) causes as was expected different reactions. According [...]

At a press conference organized in Sarajevo on Wednesday by the High Representative, Wolfgang Petritsch, the journalists were told that, following month of negotiations, the agreement on the implementation of the BiH Constitutional Court’s ruling on the constituency of the peoples had been signed earlier in the day in the OHR building in Sara [...]

After resolving all open issues, the leaders of the leading political parties in BiH signed the agreement on the implementation of the BiH Constitutional Court’s decision on the constituency of the peoples early on Wednesday in the OHR building in Sarajevo. The talks on the issue, facilitated by OHR, have been lasting since the March 8. Since [...]

Bosnia's "No Man's Land," a tragedy laced with black comedy about the devastation and futility of that country's war, was named best foreign language film at the Oscars on Sunday. The film, directed and written by Danis Tanovic, tells of three soldiers -- two Bosnian and one Serbian -- trapped in an open trench during the Bosnian war, with one of t [...]

According to Saturday’s Oslobodjenje, at a press conference in Sarajevo on Friday, the Chairman of the BiH House of Peoples, Sejfudin Tokic, said that it was clear following talks with NATO officials BiH had realistic chances to access to the NATO Partnership for Peace program.

All obstacles for BiH’s full membership of the Council of Europe have been removed following Wednesday’s decision of the Committee of Ministers of this organisation, BiH Foreign Minister Zlatko Lagumdzija said upon his return from Strasbourg on Thursday. He told a news conference in Sarajevo that Europe in this way offered BiH another c [...]

The Council of Europe Committee of Ministers decided on Wednesday to invite Bosnia and Herzegovina to join the Council of Europe as its 44th member State.