President Jelco Komjiditch of the Bosnian Presidential Commission received a message from Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, Emir of Qatar, dealing with bilateral relations between the two countries.
The message was delivered by Qatar's ambassador (...)
AlHijjah 8, 1432, Nov 4, 2011, SPA -- Imams across Bosnia issued a rare joint message during prayers on Friday condemning violence in the name of Islam, a week after an extremist attack on the U.S. embassy shook the country's overwhelmingly moderate (...)
AlQa'dah 17, 1432, Oct 15, 2011, SPA -- Fire has engulfed much of Bosnia's Hutovo Blato nature reserve, killing many birds and animals, Reuters quoted the park manager as saying on Saturday.
The blaze broke out early on Friday in an inaccessible (...)
Saudi Ambassador to Bosnia and Herzegovina Eid bin Mohammed Al-Thaqafi held a reception party here yesterday to commemorate the 81st National Day of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
The party was attended by a number of leading political, economic, (...)
Herzegovina, Ramadan 15, 1432, Aug 15, 2011, SPA -
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is meeting leaders of Bosnia-Herzegovina, a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council, as Palestinians plan to bring a resolution on Palestinian statehood (...)
Saudi Ambassador to Bosnia-Herzegovina Eid Althaqafi has participated in the opening of the Sarajevo University's heart surgery center to which Saudi Arabia contributed.
Saudi Arabia supported the center through a soft loan of USD14.450 million (...)
Awwal 04, 1432 H / April 08, 2011, SPA -- Member of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina Abu Bakr Ezzat Begovic received here today Saudi Minister of Finance Dr. Ibrahim Al-Assaf, currently on a visit to attend the 2nd International Conference (...)
Qa'dah 15, 1431, Oct. 23, 2010, SPA -- Saudi Ambassador to Bosnia and Herzegovina Eid bin Mohammed Al-Thaqafi has hosted a luncheon in honor of Saudi and Arab scholarly and literary personalities who participated in Abdulaziz bin Saud Al-Babtain (...)
Armed thieves on Tuesday attacked a van carrying
money from a bank in Bosnia and got away with 4 million euros (5.5
million dollars), the interior ministry said in Sarajevo, according to dpa.
The robbers intercepted the armoured van at Grude, (...)
Bosnia, split into two autonomous regions at the end of a three-year war in 1995, can only move towards closer ties with the European Union as a united country, Germany's foreign minister said on Friday, according to Reuters.
"The road to the (...)
A Bosnian court has sentenced a former Bosnian Croat soldier to 10 years in prison for his role in the 1995 massacre in the Bosnian town of Srebrenica, according to Reuters.
Marko Boskic, 46, was found guilty of crimes against humanity after (...)
The Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina today
sentenced a man to 10 years in prison for participation in the murder
of hundreds of Muslims at Srebrenica 15 years ago, dpa reported.
Marko Boskic, a former Bosnian Serb soldier, was sentenced in (...)
Some 40,000 people converged on the Bosnian town of Srebrenica Sunday, to mark the 15th anniversary of the 1995
massacre in which Serb forces captured the town and began executing
Muslim boys and men, according to dpa.
Braving the stifling (...)
Thousands gathered today in Sarajevo to pay
their respects to 775 victims of the Srebrenica massacre whose
remains were recently identified, according to dpa.
The remains will be buried in Srebrenica on Sunday, 15 years since
the day Serb (...)
Saudi Ambassador to Bosnia-Herzegovina Eid bin Mohammad Althaqafi handed to the Organization of Islamic Conference's fund for repatriation of the Bosnian refugees and displaced a check of USD50,000 here yesterday.
The money is the second and last (...)
European Union ministers said today they remained committed to the integration of the Western Balkans into the bloc, dismissing fears of "enlargement fatigue" in the wake of the Greek financial crisis, according to Reuters.
"The Western Balkans (...)
Western Balkan leaders said Saturday that the European Union enlargement did not cause the current financial crisis and therefore should not be put on hold, AP reported.
At a meeting in Sarajevo, the presidents of Bosnia, Serbia, Croatia and (...)
Croatia's President has apologized for his country's involvement in the destruction of Bosnia in the 1990s and said Croatia now views a stable and prosperous Bosnia as in its national interest.
The statement by Ivo Josipovic to the Bosnian (...)
Saudi Ambassador to Bosnia and Herzegovina, Eid bin Muhammad Al-Thaqafi held a dinner banquet last night in honor of Saudi and gulf businessmen taking place in Sarajevo's first business forum at King Fahd Cultural Center here.
The banquet was (...)
Herzegovina, April 06, 2010, SPA -- Hoping to revive an economy that never recovered from the war, Bosnian business leaders began presenting on Tuesday some 157 projects worth over ¤5.5 billion ($7.41 billion) to foreign investors at a major two-day (...)
The Bosnian Serb Republic is not planing a
secessionist referendum, but a referendum on the Dayton agreement
which ended the 1992-95 Bosnian war, dpa quoted Bosnian Serb leader Milorad
Dodik as saying today.
The government of the Serb Republic (...)
Saudi Minister of Higher Education Dr. Khalid bin Abdulaziz Al-Angari arrived here today on an official visit to Bosnia and Herzegovina during which he will chair the meeting of the Board of Trustees of King Fahd Cultural Center in Sarajevo.
At (...)
Saudi ambassador to Bosnia-Herzegovina Eid Althaqafi and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Bosnia and Herzegovina Sven Alkalaj signed today a protocol to exchange land.
Under the protocol, each country will attain a plot of land according to (...)
A court in Banja Luka ruled as unfounded the
demands of Bosnia"s Islamic Community that the city pay 64.7
million convertible marks (48 million dollars) as compensation for
mosques destroyed during the 1992-95 Bosnia war, dpa quoted local media (...)
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said
today in Sarajevo that the office of the international
representative in Bosnia should be closed or transformed to give
local authorities greater decision-making authority, dpa reported.
Lavrov in (...)