Bosnia and Herzegovina
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EUFOR Althea
EU Force in Bosnia and Herzegovina (EU)
Authorization date: 07/04
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OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina
(OSCE Long-Term Missions)
Authorization date: 12/95
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OHR
(Office of the High Representative - Other)
Authorization date: 12/95
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News
Bosnia’s local elections saw ruling parties on the national level losing key strongholds in Sarajevo and Banja Luka, suggesting a potential shift on country’s stale political scene.
After a delay of two-and-a-half years, Bosnia and Herzegovina’s Council of Ministers adopted a revised strategy for processing war crimes cases, intended to speed up work on clearing the country’s huge backlog.
The coronavirus pandemic will have lasting consequences for large-scale war crimes cases at the Bosnian state court, as trials involving more than five defendants have already been suspended for six months, legal experts said.
After months of wrangling between the main parties, the upper house of the Bosnian parliament on Wednesday passed a 2020 budget – which includes funding for local elections now due on November 15.
Twenty-five years after the Srebrenica genocide, peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina remains fragile, underscoring the need for true reconciliation in the region, the UN Secretary-General said on Thursday in a video message marking the anniversary of the worst atrocity crime in Europe, since the Second World War.
Officials in Bosnia-Herzegovina announced on May 23 that they will postpone local elections, whihc had been set for October 4 because of the country's ongoing budget crisis.
Bosnia and Herzegovina is weathering the COVID-19 outbreak better than some other nations, but there’s a real danger that corruption will undermine global efforts to help it contain the pandemic, the international community’s High Representative to the Western Balkan country told the Security Council on Wednesday.
The Bosniak and Croat members of the multiethnic presidency of Bosnia-Herzegovina say they will not agree to a Serb demand to remove international judges from the country's Constitutional Court.