Bratunac

The Bosnian state court has rejected a prosecution appeal confirmed a verdict acquitting Miodrag Josipovic, Branimir Tesic, Dragomir Vasic, Danilo Zoljic and Radomir Pantic of participation in the partial extermination of Bosniaks from Srebrenica in July 1995, the men's lawyers told BIRN.

The Bosnian state court found Miodrag Josipovic, Branimir Tesic, Dragomir Vasic, Danilo Zoljic and Radomir Pantic not guilty on Monday of participation in the partial extermination of Bosniaks from Srebrenica in July 1995.

"The prosecution has not proved that the defendants had the intent to commit extermination," said presiding judge Minka Kreho.

Former Territorial Defence fighter Milan Trisic went on trial at the Bosnian state court on Wednesday, accused of committing crimes against humanity in the village of Hranca and in the town of Bratunac in 1992.

He is accused of participating in the persecution of Bosniak civilians from the village and of involvement in murders, detentions, forcible disappearances and torture.

Former Territorial Defence fighter Milan Trisic will go on trial on March 23 for crimes including murders, expulsions, unlawful arrests and pillage, the Bosnian state court decided on Tuesday.

The crimes against humanity trial of Malko Koroman, the wartime chief of the police's Public Security Station in Pale who is now a deputy mayor, opened on Monday at the Bosnian state court.

The prosecutor in the Belgrade trial of Bosnian Serb ex-soldier Dalibor Maksimovic, accused of killings and rapes near the Bosnian town of Bratunac in 1992, accused the defence of stalling the court proceedings.

Durakovic said on Monday that the funds pledged by Vucic, the first part of what the Serbian premier said was a five million euro development aid package, had arrived as promised.

"The money has been credited to our bank account," Durakovic told local media.

Politicians who took part in last week's business forum in Srebrenica attended by Vucic declared themselves satisfied with the generous-sounding offer of the Serbian prime minister, who made a return visit to the town laast week despite being attacked there in July.

Serbia and Bosnia signed four important protocols on Wednesday at their first joint government session in Sarajevo.

The first concerns research into missing persons from the conflict of the 1990s, protection of the historic Mehmed Pasa Sokolovic bridge in Visegrad, eastern Bosia, and stronger cooperation in the telecommunication and environmental sectors.

The Bosnian state prosecution said that two previously unknown mass graves containing the bodies of victims of the 1992-95 war have been discovered in the towns of Bratunac and Bihac.