Bosnia and Herzegovina

Atifa Memovic last saw her husband two decades ago, but she remembers it as if it were yesterday. It was snowing, and Fikret, a railway worker, was wearing a jeans jacket with winter lining, a gray sweater over a checkered shirt, and on his wrist a Seiko watch. He kissed her and promised to be back on the afternoon train.

He never made it.

Arrests for 1993 Strpci station train kidnappings

BELGRADE, SARAJEVO -- Five persons have been arrested in Serbia and ten in Bosnia-Herzegovina on suspicion that they took part in the 1993 kidnapping of train passengers.

The train was traveling on the Belgrade-Bar line when 20 passengers were taken out and later killed.

In a joint operation, Serbia and Bosnia arrested 15 people suspected of seizing 20 passengers from a train in the Bosnian town of Strpci during wartime in 1993 and killing them.

Experts: BiH census key to ease ethnic tension, violence

BELGRADE - Miodrag Linta, president of the Coalition of Refugees Associations, called on the Belgrade City Commission for Monuments and Names of Streets and Squares on Thursday to support the initiative to put up a memorial to Serb victims killed in the 1991-2000 war conflicts in the territory of the former Yugoslavia.

Amendments to Dayton signed by regional ministers

BASEL -- Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Montenegro signed a document on takeover of full responsibility for regional stability and armament control.

This took place during the OSCE Ministerial Council in Basel on Thursday.

BASEL - Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Montenegro signed the document on takeover of full responsibility for regional stability and armament control at the OSCE Ministerial Council in Basel on Thursday.

The signed document contains amendments to Article IV of the Dayton Treaty which envisages transfer of powers in armament control to four former Yugoslav countries.

Renzo Daviddi, the deputy head of EU Delegation, said Thursday that the country has to raise standards and adopt the necessary veterinary and food safety legislation to be allowed to export milk to the EU. 

Daviddi said there were a lot of technical issues to be solved by various institutions but political will was needed to make a breakthrough.

BELGRADE - International conference entitled 'The European Union and the Western Balkans 2015-2020 - chances for partnership and mutual doubts' will take place in Belgrade on Friday.

BELGRADE - The 9th International Festival of Salsa and other Caribbean dances under the title Salsa Motion Weekend will be held in Belgrade from December 5 to 7 and it will gather around 1,000 dancers from Serbia and the world.