Bosnia and Herzegovina

PM decides not to attend WW1 event in Sarajevo

BELGRADE -- Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vučić has announced that Serbia and the Serb Republic (RS) will this year jointly mark June 28 - Vidovdan.

The religious holiday, St. Vitus Day, and the date itself, have had exceptional significance for Serbs through centuries.

BELGRADE - Serbian Minister of Culture and Information Ivan Tasovac and Minister of Education and Culture of Republika Srpska (RS) Goran Mutabdzija have signed in Banja Luka a Memorandum of Cooperation (MoC) between the two ministries that provides for exchange of programs, projects and experts between Serbian and RS national cultural institutions.

BECICI – An annual Southeast Europe (SEE) summit of finance ministers and central bank governors, which will discuss financial future of the region, will start in Becici, a coastal tourist resort in Montenegro, on Friday.

A witness told the trial of ex-fighter Nikola Maric, accused of the detention, persecution and killing of Bosniaks in the Prozor area, that he saw the defendant shoot a fellow prisoner.

Dragons take first step onto world stage

The BiH football team's qualification for the World Cup is an accomplishment that is resonating in the sports world and beyond.

"Dragons in heart, Dragons on the field," is the slogan that the Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) national football team has adopted as it plays in the 2014 World Cup in Brazil.

BANJA LUKA - Serbian Minister of Culture and Information Ivan Tasovac conferred in Banja Luka on Thursday with Republika Srpska (RS) Prime Minister Zeljka Cvijanovic on the activities RS and Serbia are conducting in relation to the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the beginning of World War I.

"Changes in Bosnia only if all sides agree"

BANJA LUKA -- Željka Cvijanović has said that any possible changes in Bosnia-Herzegovina "must be the result of an agreement between the three peoples and two entities."

Cvijanović heads the government of Bosnia's Serb entity, the Serb Republic (RS).

Five former Bosnian Serb policemen were given reduced sentences of 20 years each for aiding genocide in Srebrenica following a retrial after their previous convictions were annulled.

BELGRADE - A meeting of deputy chiefs of staff, attended by delegations of 15 countries participating in the Southeastern Europe Defence Ministerial Process (SEDM), started in Belgrade on Wednesday.

The President of Republika Srpska, Milorad Dodik, has accused Bosnia's mainly Bosniak and Croat Federation entity of seizing more donations for flood relief than it was entitled to.

Dodik said the issue of forming a solidarity fund at state level in Bosnia and Herzegovina had become stuck - and he rejected the idea of simply dividing the donations by half.