Bosnia and Herzegovina

IMF: Recession to continue throughout 2015

WASHINGTON -- According to latest IMF projections, 2015 will be another recession year for Serbia, with negative growth of -0.5 percent.

2016 should see "recovery" and 1.5 percent growth, according to this.

WASHINGTON - According to latest projections by the International Monetary Fund (IMF), 2015 will be another recession year for Serbia, with a real GDP growth of a negative -0.5 percent, and recovery, with a positive, 1.5 percent growth, should come in 2016.

BRUSSELS - The European Parliament's (EP) Foreign Affairs Committee has described Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama's recent statement about unification of Kosovo and Albania as inappropriate, during a debate at the EP on the reports assessing the progress made by Bosnia-Herzegovina and Albania, Al Jazeera has published on its website.

BELGRADE - An international military exercise dubbed Logex 15 will be held at the Serbian Armed Forces (VS) Headquarters centre for simulation training from May 4 to 15, the VS have posted on their website.

The exercise is held every two years as part of a partnership with NATO, and it is organised in coordination with the US Armed Forces.

Unemployed veterans Sefik Muminovic, 55, and Dzemal Zahirovic, 59, arrived in the Sarajevo suburbs early on Tuesday morning after walking 108 kilometres along winding mountain roads from the northern industrial town of Zivinice.  

"Bosnia can join NATO only if Serbia does"

BELGRADE -- Chairman of Bosnian Presidency Mladen Ivanic has said thar Bosnia-Herzegovina could join NATO "only if, and when," Serbia does as well.

The statement from Nebojsa Radmanovic, a senior leader of the Alliance of Independent Social Democrats, SNSD, sparked a heated debate in Bosnian media over the weekend, with opponents claiming that it could unsettle the ethnically-divided country's stability.

Turkey summoned the Vatican Ambassador in Ankara after Pope Francis described the mass killing of Armenians in WW1 as genocide.

Turkey's Foreign Ministry requested a meeting with the Vatican's envoy in Ankara after the Pope's comments during Sunday's Mass in the Armenian Catholic rite at Peter's Basilica, according to reports of the BBC News.

After nine different meetings in three days, the 18th Economic Summit ended on April 9. 

In addition to the economy, energy and information technologies, special sessions on economy-democracy relations and the state of humanity and where humanity is heading were conducted. 

BANJALUKA - Serbia sincerely wants an improvement in the ties with Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic has said in an interview with the holiday issue of Banjaluka-based Nezavisne novine.