Vjekoslav Bevanda

High Representative Christian Schmidt, who oversees the civilian implementation of the peace deal that ended the Bosnian war, imposed a decision on Tuesday to allocate funds for country's October elections, putting an end to weeks of failed attempts to ensure an adequate budget to hold the polls.

Bosnian people wait in line to vote for the country's general elections in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 12 October 2014. Photo: EPA/FEHIM DEMIR

Over a month after the Central Election Commission of Bosnia and Herzegovina announced that a general election will be held in October, it announced on Monday that it has managed to borrow the money needed for the process.

A European Commissioner on a visit to Bosnia on Friday called for all parts of the country to share the burden of migration equally - in an implicit dig at Bosnia's Serb-led entity, which has refused to host migrant camps.

Bosnia and Herzegovina on Dec. 23 formed a new government 14 months after general elections in October 2018.

Receiving a vote of confidence in the House of Representatives, the new government was formed by the country's largest Bosniak, Serb and Croat parties, who agreed to form the government last month.

The Russian finance ministry has told its counterpart in Bosnia that Moscow will transfer $125 million to Sarajevo to cover so-called 'clearing debt' of the former Soviet Union, the Bosnian finance ministry said on Tuesday.

The clearing debt was debt that the Soviet Union accumulated to the former Yugoslavia from the trade of goods.

Thousands of jobs in Bosnia, where unemployment is already high, may be in jeopardy owing to continued uncertainly over the future of Croatian biggest private company, Agrokor, which is stuggling with debt and liquidity issues.

Two of the main opposition Bosnian parties, the Social Democratic Party of Bosnia and Herzegovina (SDPBiH) and the Democratic Front (DF), are presenting a joint proposal for the reform of Mostar's electoral statute in order to end the city's political deadlock.

BELGRADE - After the summit of China and Central and Eastern European countries, Bosnia-Herzegovina is heading towards a bright and prosperous future, as it is a country of much dormant potential that could be utilized through business projects, says Chairman of the BiH Council of Ministers Vjekoslav Bevanda in an exclusive opinion piece for Tanjug ahead of the Belgrade Meeting, which Tanjug pu

BELGRADE - Serbia's Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic sent on Friday a telegram of condolences to head of the Bosnia-Herzegovina Presidency Vjekoslav Bevanda and the families of the miners killed in the Zenica coal mine, and he also offered Serbia's assistance in repairing the damage.

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.