Entities of Bosnia and Herzegovina

RS leader comments on "third Bosnian entity"

GUČA -- RS President Milorad Dodik was a guest of this year's Guča Trumpet Festival in western Serbia, that attracted over 400,000 visitors from the country and abroad.

The leader of the Serb entity in Bosnia-Herzegovina welcomed the audience, and the musicians competing in the final event on Sunday.

Vučić and Dodik differ on Erdogan's statement

BELGRADE -- Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vučić says he "wants to believe" his Turkish counterpart did not make a controversial statement as reported over the weekend.

"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).

From sportsmen from Bosnia and Serbia who raised money together to volunteers who went from one part of the country to another to help people, Bosnia’s recent floods have prompted many to put solidarity ahead of ethnic divisions.

SARAJEVO - The government of the Federation of Bosnia-Herzegovina (FBiH) declared a state of natural disaster Thursday after heavy rain that caused rivers to burst their banks and flood a large number of infrastructure and housing facilities and agricultural and other sites.

Lawmakers of Bosnia's House of Representatives, one of two chambers of parliament, failed to adopt changes to the electoral law on holding elections in Mostar on Wednesday.

As a result, local elections expected in October will again have skip the ethnically divided city in southwest Bosnia.

BiH gets its first professional government

Comprised of professionals instead of politicians, the new government was established in Tuzla.

The Tuzla Canton government resigned after citizen demonstrations in February. [AFP]

Zeljka Cvijanovic, Prime Minister of Republika Srpska, said Bosniak parties and organizations were raising unnecessary tensions over a recent decision regarding checks on residence in the entity.

The head of the Croatian Democratic Union, HDZ, Tomislav Karamarko, and the head of its Bosnian sister party, HDZ BiH, Dragan Covic, said Croats needed to gain real equality if the country was to make progress.

Moneyval, the Council of Europe's Committee of Experts on the Evaluation of Anti-Money Laundering Measures and the Financing of Terrorism, has given Bosnia an extended deadline until June to adopt a law on money laundering.

Samir Omerhodzic, member of the Bosnian delegation, said the country could be blacklisted unless the law was adopted by then.