Bosnia and Herzegovina

Police in Prijedor are searching for a man who they suspect of falsely claiming to be collecting financial aid for the families of war crimes convicts from the Bosnian city.

Both prosecution and defence appealed against the nine-year sentence given to Bosnian Croat ex-fighter Zoran Milic, who was convicted of involvement in killing four Bosniaks in Busovaca in 1993.

The two shareholders in Bosnia's power distribution company, Elektroprenos, which are the country's two entities on March 31 agreed to divide up the net profit of the company - some 50 million euro.

The Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina will get 58 per cent of the sum while the other entity, Republika Srpska, will get 42 per cent.

Former Bosnian Croat fighter Drazen Mikulic is being retried after his conviction for war crimes against prisoners at the Dretelj detention camp near Capljina in 1993 was overturned.

Two prosecution witnesses testified at the trial of Bosnian Serb ex-fighter Dragan Sekaric that their relatives were murdered by soldiers when the village of Lozje was attacked in May 1992.

"Borders will not be redrawn in Balkans"

SARAJEVO -- The British foreign minister says there will be no more drawing of borders in the Balkans and that only a united Bosnia in its present borders can join the EU.

SARAJEVO - Bosnia-Herzegovina's (BiH) Foreign Minister Zlatko Lagumdzija expects that the first joint sitting of the BiH Council of Ministers and a new Serbian government will be held shortly after the formation of the government in Belgrade.

Bosnia's Foreign Minister, Zlatko Lagumdzija, met his British counterpart, William Hague, on March 28 to discuss the European Union's "new approach" to Bosnia and Herzegovina, which involves focusing on economic and social issues instead of on constitutional changes.

Tuzla Canton is the first in Bosnia and Herzegovina to get a new government since the mass protests that started in February forced four of the Federation entity's ten cantonal governments to resign.

Members of Tuzla Canton's new government held their first meeting on March 27 after the cantonal assembly confirmed their posts the night before.

The Belgrade appeals court reversed a ruling that the Yugoslav Army was responsible for the violation of the rights of Bosniaks attacked near the Serbian town of Priboj in 1993.