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ISIS Poses Threat to Balkans, Ministers Say
Interior ministers from the three Balkan countries held a meeting in Podgorica on Tuesday to discuss the threat from radical Islamist movements in the region and ways to prevent it through joint efforts.
"We have agreed that we will not allow terrorism to spread across the region and that we are ready to destroy it," Bosnian Interior Minister Dragan Mektic told reporters.
A deep security gap over local ISIL members
Years ago, when I was working for daily Radikal, I and our Ankara representative, Murat Yetkin, had a chat with a top-level security official. At those times, there was al-Qaeda. That official said, ?Turkey is catching dozens of al-Qaeda members each month and we are handing them over to our international interlocutors in appropriate ways.? Then he added this was strictly off the record.
"Time for hundreds of years of peace," says Bosniak leader
There can be "no development and progress without trust, reconciliation and stability in the Western Balkans."
That is the message Bosnia-Herzegovina Presidency members sent to citizens at the end of their visit to Serbia on Wednesday.