Igor Crnadak

BANJALUKA - Chairman of the Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) Presidency Mladen Ivanic has sent a letter to The Hague-based International Court of Justice (ICJ), disputing anyone's right to file applications on behalf of BiH as there is no decision on this by BiH institutions, Ivanic's office told the RTRS.

BELGRADE - The relations between Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) are good, and top-level political contacts must be intensified in the period to come to give the expansion of overall cooperation an additional impetus, Serbian and Bosnian FMs Ivica Dacic and Igor Crnadak said Monday.

Crnadak invited Dacic to pay a bilateral visit to BiH.

Tanjug photo, D. Goll

Serbian First Deputy PM and Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic on Monday in Belgrade met with Minister of Foreign Affairs of Bosnia-Herzegovina Igor Crnadak.

They "highlighted good relations between the two countries," the Serbian government announced after the meeting.

Chairman of the Council of Ministers of Bosnia-Herzegovina Denis Zvizdic is meeting Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic in Belgrade on Monday.

The president of Republika Srpska, Milorad Dodik, hit back on Wednesday after sanctions were imposed on him by the US Treasury, declaring the US ambassador to Bosnia and Herzegovina, Maureen Cormack, "a proven enemy" of the Bosnian Serbs who was "unwelcome in Republika Srpska".

Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik on Monday said the United States had refused to issue him a diplomatic visa to attend the January 20 inauguration of President Donald Trump.

Dodik said he was told that he would not be travelling to the US as representative of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Turkey has once again asked the United States to stop giving arms to support the People's Protection Units (YPG) in Syria, Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu said on Nov. 7. 

Bosnia and Iran will cooperate to fight terrorism and increase trade, the chairman of the Bosnian presidency, Bakir Izetbegovic, said on Tuesday, on a visit to Tehran with a high-level Bosnian delegation.

Bosnian Foreign Minister Igor Crnadak made an official visit to Iran on Monday, meeting his counterpart Mohammad Javad Zarif in a bid to develop relations that could economically benefit the cash-strapped Balkan state.

"We discussed many ways to increase our economic cooperation," said Crnadak said at a press conference, according to Iranian news FARS.

Relations between Serbia and Bosnia-Herzegovina are "on the rise," the two countries' foreign ministers have said.

Ivica Dacic and Igor Crnadak noted after their meeting in Belgrade on Wednesday that trade relations are "also excellent" - while, according to them, special attention should be devoted to infrastructure projects.