Bosnia and Herzegovina

A UN court on Tuesday upheld the life sentence imposed on former Bosnian Serb military chief Ratko Mladić for his role in the Balkan wars in the 1990s. 

‘Bitter Land’ is an interactive database of mass graves that aims to demonstrate the scale of the atrocities, ethnic cleansing and operations to cover up war crimes during the 1990s conflicts in the former Yugoslavia. … It is being launched ahead of the final verdict on June 8 in the trial of former Bosnian Serb military leader Ratko Mladic, … .

The Ambassadors of the Steering Board of the Peace Implementation Council, the international body guiding Bosnia’s peace process, formally appointed Christian Schmidt as the next High Representative in Bosnia and Herzegovina, following his candidature put forward by Germany, the Office of the High Representative announced today.

The statements follow reports that a document has circulated among EU officials proposing the redrawing of borders in the Western Balkans to merge Kosovo with Albania and to incorporate parts of Bosnia into Serbia and Croatia to help the region's EU integration.

MPs voted in Albin Kurti as Kosovo's Prime Minister for a second time – a year after he was ousted from government and six weeks after his Vetevendosje party won elections by a landslide.

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NATO has shrugged off a Kremlin warning to 'Bosnian friends' not to seek closer ties with the Atlantic alliance, saying each country has the sovereign right to choose its security arrangements.

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Russia will react if Bosnia takes steps towards joining NATO because Moscow would perceive this as a hostile act, the Russian embassy in Bosnia said in a statement on Thursday.

As talks intensify on appointing a new international overseer for Bosnia, the Bosnian Serb parliament has called for international supervision of the country to end – though experts doubt the demand will change anything.

The government offered payments to soldiers from the Dutch UN battalion that failed to prevent the massacres of Bosniaks from Srebrenica in 1995, in recognition of the “exceptional circumstances” in which they had to serve.

Human and minority rights, the rule of law and media freedom remain endangered in several Southeast and Central European countries in 2020, especially in the circumstances of the COVID-19 pandemic, Human Rights Watch, HRW, said in its latest report published on Wednesday.