Franz Ferdinand

The first exhibition, which opened on Thursday at the Bosnian History Museum in Sarajevo, uses documents, photographs and other archive materials to tell the story of the assassination by young Serb Gavrilo Princip on June 28, 1914, and its impact on Bosnia and Herzegovina and the world.

Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic and Republika Srpska President Milorad Dodik will attend the opening on Saturday of the newly-built mini-town of Andricgrad in eastern Bosnia at an event to mark the centenary of the start of World War I.

SARAJEVO – Chairman of the Presidency of Bosnia-Herzegovina (BiH) Bakir Izetbegovic says he does not understand the reasoning behind Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic’s plans not to go to Sarajevo for an event marking 100 years since the outbreak of World War One (WWI) and his stating that he cannot go to a place where someone will accuse his people.

Marking a start to commemorations of the outbreak of World War One, the Museum of Sarajevo on June 9 unveiled the images of both Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his Serbian assassin, Gavrilo Princip.

Princip's murder of the heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary in Sarajevo in 1914 is widely seen as the key event that triggered the war.

BELGRADE - A two-day international conference on World War I, organized by the Center for International Relations and Sustainable Development (CIRSD) will start in Belgrade on Friday.

CIRSD president Vuk Jeremic told Tanjug that the participants will focus on the geopolitical situation in the world in 1914 and the events leading to the outbreak of the Great War.

A concert by the Sarajevo Philharmonic and spectacular projections showing the history of the neo-Moorish building, which was built in 1896 but burned down in 1992, heralded the reopening of the Vijecnica on Friday.

BELGRADE - Karl von Habsburg, grandson to the last ruler of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Karl I, said in Belgrade Monday that the EU is incomplete without Serbia, stressing that no individual country or person can be blamed for World War One.

ANDRICGRAD - The Department of History of the Andric Institute in Andricgrad has launched a petition for a revision of the trial of members of the Young Bosnia movement, including Gavrilo Princip, who assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, heir presumptive to the Austro-Hungarian throne, in Sarajevo on June 28 1914.