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"Political, economic and cultural relations between FRY and BiH are being improved in an accelerated way, and they can serve as an example of successful development of good neighboring relations in the region," Oslobodjenje quoted Speaker of the FRY House of Citizens Dragoljub Micunovic as saying in Belgrade on Monday following a meeting with a BiH [...]

According to Saturday’s Oslobodjenje, the BiH Council of Ministers said in a press release that it had completely and on time informed the BiH Presidency on the actions of the BiH state and entities’ institutions related to the case of the "Algerian Group" extradition. This press release represents a denial of a statement made on Thursd [...]

Our priorities in coming period are rule of law, establishment of institutions, continuance of economic reforms, improvement of climate for domestic and foreign investments, fight against corruption, and joining European integration processes, BiH Council of Ministers' Chairman and Foreign Minister Zlatko Lagumdzija said at the beginning of the two [...]

Leaders of eight ruling parties in Federation and Republika Srpska met on Wednesday in Sarajevo to discuss, for the third time, the ongoing constitutional changes in the Entities in an attempt to reach a compromise which would be acceptable for all sides. Following the meeting, participants told media that there is about an "80 percent agreement ab [...]

The High Representative, Wolfgang Petritsch, addressed on Monday in Brussels the foreign ministers of the European Union, at the EU's General Affairs Council. The High Representative highlighted the fact that Bosnia and Herzegovina has moved forward in the past three years and a basic - yet solid - foundation has been put in place on which to build [...]

EU Foreign Ministers agreed on Monday to the European Union taking direct charge of a nearly 500-strong police mission in BiH, marking its first foray into a peacekeeping operation, report nearly all news agencies (and carries Oslobodjenje and Avaz). Sense agency notes that the current IPTF police mission in BiH will end by December 2002 and in Jan [...]

In an interview with Oslobodjenje, BiH Human Rights Ombudsman Frank Orton said that a number of irregularities were discovered in the disputed hand-over of the six Algerians suspected of planning attacks against US targets in BiH. "Although we did not have any official requests, we resumed the investigation in accordance with our professional duty [...]

On Wednesday at the OHR in Sarajevo, the High Representative, Wolfgang Petritsch, met with leaders of the political parties of Bosnia and Herzegovina, to hear of the progress they have made with regard to the implementation of the Constitutional Court's decision on the constituency of peoples. The High Representative welcomed the initial progress m [...]