Bosnia and Herzegovina

BELGRADE - The governments of Serbia and Republika Srpska (RS) have to work together to improve the business environment, because that will facilitate economic recovery, Serbia's Minister of Economy Zeljko Sertic said on Monday.

A defence witness told the Hague Tribunal that Bosnian Serb military chief Ratko Mladic couldn’t have ordered the killings of 7,000 Muslims from Srebrenica because it was out of character.

The defence of Novak Djukic, convicted of ordering a deadly Bosnian Serb artillery strike on the town of Tuzla, staged a reconstruction of the attack in a bid to prove his innocence.

A prosecution witness said he saw Bosnian Croat fighter Nikola Maric, accused of war crimes in the Prozor area, murder his father and grandfather when he was a boy in 1993.

BiH war crimes arrests lauded by ICTY

The Bosnian court’s appeals chamber revoked the acquittal of former military policeman Savo Babic for crimes against humanity against civilians imprisoned in a school in Bratunac in 1992.

The Bosnian State Investigation and Protection Agency arrested 13 people on suspicion of taking part in crimes against humanity, including over 40 murders, in Doboj and Teslic in 1992.

A former Bosnian Serb officer told the trial of his military commander Ratko Mladic that his unit didn’t deploy snipers against Sarajevo residents but did use heavy artillery to defend Serbs.

Regional leaders sign declaration on missing persons

Mostar -- Leaders of Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Montenegro, conferred in Mostar on Friday where they will sign a declaration on missing persons.

The document aims to encourage the search for people missing in the wars both in the Balkan region and elsewhere in the world.

BERLIN - Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic met in Berlin Thursday with Chairman of the Bosnia-Herzegovina (BiH) Council of Ministers Vjekoslav Bevanda to discuss further cooperation between the two countries in all fields and their European perspective.