Government of Bosnia and Herzegovina

The Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina has charged Munib Ahmetspahic - who was previously acquitted of having a role in the 2011 attack on the US embassy in Bosnia - with membership of a terrorist formation in Syria.

Representatives of some 50 world powers, including the US, Russia, EU and most EU member countries, convene in Sarajevo on Tuesday and Wednesday for a regular biannual meeting of the Peace Implementation Council, PIC, the ad hoc body overseeing the work of Bosnia and Herzegovina's once-powerful international administrator, the Office of the High Representative, OHR.

The high representative should have left Bosnia-Herzegovina a long time ago, says the current chairman of the Presidency of Bosnia-Herzegovina, Mladen Ivanic.

Ivanic, who represents Serb in the tripartite body, also told Tanjug in an interview that the Office of the High Representative (OHR) is staffed by people "who have no other alternative."

Twenty years after Bosnian war ended, calls are again being heard for the closure of the Office of the High Representative, OHR, the international authority in charge of implementing aspects of the 1995 Dayton Peace Agreement.

In an official statement, the Russian Foreign Ministry recently demanded the closure of the Office.

The Peace Implementation Council, PIC, said in a communique released after the December 9-10 session that the focus in Bosnia needed to be on the formation of new governments, which could then start taking moves on the economy.

Presence of international troops in Bosnia "vital"

SARAJEVO -- The permanent presence of the EU military mission in Bosnia (EUFOR) with an executive mandate is vital under the circumstances, assessed Valentin Inzko.

New police operations in the Balkans against Islamic extremists

About 30 anti-poverty protestors gathered outside the Office of the High Representative, OHR, in Sarajevo on Monday to call on Valentin Inzko, who currently holds the post, to act.

The Council of BiH Citizens - a group that has hedl regular protests outside the Presidency since larger-scale demonstrations in February – displayed banners in English and Bosnian.