[CDATA[ SARAJEVO,Bosnia – The Bosnian Foreign Trade Chamber announced that a delegation of Turkish Foreign Trade Chamber from Afyonkarahisar region of Turkey will visit Bosnia on September 4. President of the Chamber Melih Yurter will lead the delegation.”Representatives of 17 companies from various sectors like construction, furniture, leather, chemical industry, are expected to arrive”, Enes Aliskovic, Director of Chamber’s Department for International Economic Relations said. ]]

[CDATA[ SARAJEVO,Bosnia - The jury of the 13th Sarajevo Film Festival (SFF), chaired by the Oscar winner Jeremy Irons, awarded Turkish movie "Takva - A Man's Fear of God" by Ozer Kiziltan the prize for the best movie of the festival late Saturday."Takva" has already collected many awards, including the Discovery prize at the Toronto Intl. Film Festival last year and the Fipresci award in Berlin. ]]

[CDATA[ SARAJEVO,Bosnia - American filmaker,Oscar and Cannes Festival winner,Michael Moore officially closed yesterday the 13th Sarajevo Film Festival with his latest film ``Sicko'',which deals with health care problems in the United States.Upon his arrival Moore met with the members of the press in the Meeting Point Cinema where a public interview was held. Later the same day, Moore presented his latest documentary "Sicko" in the Heineken Open Air Cinema. ]]

[CDATA[ SARAJEVO,Bosnia - The 13th Sarajevo Film Festival, one of Europe's youngest and most accessible celebrations of cinema ends today.The Sarajevo Film Festival,one of Europe's youngest and most accessible celebrations of cinema began in 1995, months before the Dayton Peace Accords ended 3 1/2 years of the Serbian,Montenegrin and Croatian aggressions against Bosnia. By contrast, the prestigious Berlin International Film Festival got underway five years after the German surrender in 1945.While this year's edition has included name-brand foreign features such as "The Simpsons" and a token appearance by Michael Moore, the focus has been regional productions. Perhaps unsurprisingly, given the turbulence here and in neighboring countries throughout the 1990s, about a third of the offerings touched on war. ]]

[CDATA[ An interview with Mr. Muhamed Sacirbey, former Bosnia's Minister of Foreign Affairs (1995-96) and Ambassador to the United Nations (1992-2000). ]]

[CDATA[ SARAJEVO,Bosnia - The continued existence of “two-schools-under-one-roof” defies Bosnian state laws and international commitments Bosnia has entered into, warned the OSCE Mission to Bosnia. OSCE spokesperson Mersiha Causevic-Podzic stated that the majority of these 54 "two-schools-under-one-roof" are located in ZDC (Zenica-Doboj Canton), CCB (Canton Central Bosnia) and HNC (Herzegovina-Neretva Canton). Such schools were meant to be an interim solution that would merge into single schools over time.]]

[CDATA[ SARAJEVO,Bosnia - The international community's principal deputy high representative in Bosnia, Raffi Gregorian, and the leader of the Bosnian Islamic Community Reisu-l-Ulema Mustafa Ef. Cerić met yesterday in Sarajevo and discussed Gregorian's recent claims that Bosnia is harbouring "Al-Qaeda linked individuals".Gregorian stressed that Bosnia is a valued and important partner in the struggle against global terrorism, and that it is facing the same challenges as the US, the EU, and many other countries do in dealing with the issue.]]

[CDATA[ SARAJEVO,Bosnia - The international community's principal deputy high representative in Bosnia,Raffi Gregorian, has drawn sharp criticism from Bosnian politicial and religious leaders for claiming that Bosnia is harbouring "Al-Qaeda linked individuals".Gregorian told Bosnian daily Dnevni Avaz that some foreign fighters who fought to defend Bosnia from the 1992-1995 Serbian,Montenegrin and Croatian aggressions, who had been granted Bosnian citizenship, had links to Al-Qaeda and were helping to finance its operations. “To be precise, I must say that I don’t know for sure of their direct ties, but some indications exist,” Gregorian said.]]

[CDATA[ SARAJEVO,Bosnia - A hearing before the Appellate Panel of Section I for War Crimes of the Bosnian State Court in the case of Croatian war criminal Nikola Andrun has been scheduled for today, Monday, 20 August 2007 in courtroom 5, starting at 10.00am.On 14 December 2006, the Trial Panel handed down the first instance verdict in this case, finding Croatian war criminal Nikola Andrun guilty of War crimes against Bosnian civilians and sentencing him to 13 years imprisonment.The Trial Panel’s verdict inter alia states that in 1993,during the Croatian aggression against Bosnia,acting in the capacity of the Deputy Commander of the Gabela concentration camp in the Municipality of the southern Bosnian town of Čapljina, and as a member of the Croatian aggressor's formations. ]]

[CDATA[ SARAJEVO,Bosnia : The latest "last international community's high representative in Bosnia" in an interview to a a Bosnian political magazine Dani speaks about police reform, constitutional reform,Bosnia's political leaders…]]

[CDATA[ SARAJEVO,Bosnia - The 13th Sarajevo Film Festival (SFF) opened yesterday evening, with simultaneous screenings in the Bosnian National Theater and Heineken Open Air Cinema, of the film It’s Hard to be Nice (Tesko je biti fin) by Srđan Vuletić.The audience attending the opening was greeted by SFF director, Mirsad Purivatra and Competition Features programmer, Elma Tataragić.In his welcome speech Mr. Purivatra said: “At this time there is only one thing that I want to say. All of us, and there is now 800 of us working in the organization of the Festival, have done our best to give you the best edition of the Festival so far. At the end you will be the judges of our success.”]]

[CDATA[ SARAJEVO,Bosnia - The Appellate Panel of Section I for War Crimes of the Bosnian State Court of Bosnia found Serbian war criminal Boban Simsic guilty of Crimes against humanity, and sentenced him to the shamefully low sentence of 14 years of imprisonment.Serbian war criminal Boban Simsic had committed the said offence in the period between April and July 1992 in the Visegrad Municipality, as a member of the genocidal Serbian aggressor's formations. ]]

[CDATA[ SARAJEVO,Bosnia - From the 16th to the 20th August 2007, the European Union Force in Bosnia (EUFOR) will be conducting a major exercise in Bosnia. It will involve both reserve forces from Germany and also members of the Bosnian Armed Forces.Neil Matheison, EUFOR spokesperson, stated at a press conference that “a battalion from the 232 Mountain Regiment from Germany began to arrive in Sarajevo. On the 16th August they will deploy to Camp Eagle Base in Tuzla. Exercises will be conducted at Commanche Base. ]]

[CDATA[ SARAJEVO,Bosnia - The Bosnian State Court expressed concerns over continuous and attacks without any basis against this institution. All those comments have been made by politicians. The political leader of the Serbians living in Bosnia,Milorad Dodik commented in the media on August 10 and 11 the work of the Bosnian judiciary institutions. The Court is of the opinion that this was an attempt of pressure against the work of this institution.]]

[CDATA[ TUZLA, Bosnia – The Bosnian Liberal Democratic party is of the opinion that the “staged clash” between the Bosnian council of Ministers Chairman Nikola Spiric and the ministers is only a cover up for their inactions and obstruction of the Council of Ministers’ functioning. That is why the party is calling the international community's high representative in Bosnia Miroslav Lajcak to “recognize the processes of destabilization that are being made on purpose by Bosnia's executive authorities”. ]]

[CDATA[ BRUSSELS,Belgium – The new Bosnian Ambassador to NATO Nikola Radovanovic presented credentials to the NATO Deputy Secretary General Alessandro Minuto-Rizzo.Radovanovic presented greetings of the Bosnian Presidency members and the Bosnian Minister of Foreign Affairs Sven Alkalaj, who used to be the Bosnian Ambassador to NATO. He emphasized that Bosnia is determined to become a full-time NATO member.]]

[CDATA[ SARAJEVO,Bosnia - The Bosnian State Prosecutor's Office instructed police to tighten security at the grave of the late Bosnian President Alija Izetbegovic amid fears of a bomb attack on the site, the Bosnian daily Dnevni Avaz reported. An explosion at the late Bosnian leader's grave had badly damaged his burial place last year."During the investigation related to the last year explosion, the office obtained information according to which new attack is possible a year after the previous one," the Bosnian daily reported quoting its source from Bosnia's judicial circles as saying. ]]

[CDATA[ SARAJEVO,Bosnia – US Ambassador to Bosnia, Douglas McElhaney, Dragan Covic, new HDZ BiH Chairman and Chairman of HSP BiH (Đapić –Dr Jurišić), Zvonko Jurišić, held talks in Mostar on police reform and upcoming constitutional changes in Bosnia.Jurišić set forth the stands of HSP on police reform, which must include a single police at the Bosnian state level, which would care of security of all citizens in Bosnia, said a statement issued by the party.]]

[CDATA[ SARAJEVO,Bosnia – 176 movies are to be aired at this year’s Sarajevo Film Festival (SFF). 16 movies are to see the world premiere.The SFF program was presented yesterday at a press conference in Sarajevo. SFF registered 1.500 credentialed participants. Most of them are professionals from around the world; producers, directors, actors, etc.]]

[CDATA[ SARAJEVO,Bosnia - The Bosnian Champions F.C. Sarajevo lost the second leg of their UEFA Champions League second qualifying round tie at home to the Belgian champions F.C. Genk – but progressed to the UEFA Champions League third qualifying round thanks to the two away goals they scored in Belgium last week.]]

[CDATA[ TOPUSKO,Croatia – On the Turska Kosa locality,at the border between Bosnia and Croatia,near Topusko, archeological excavations are in progress at an extremely important Illyrian site, the Karlovac City Museum custodian Lazo Čučković.said yesterday.]]

[CDATA[ SREBRENICA,Bosnia - Francesco Baroni runs up and down a dusty hill above the eastern Bosnian town of Srebrenica, pushing wheelbarrows full of earth. Baroni is an Italian volunteer from a group of 70 young men and women who joined an international youth camp in the town. The camp is operating in Srebrenica for the second year, assisting the community with work that nobody else wants to do, a prime example of "voluntourism". "You do practical things to help people here - cutting wood for winter, improving roads in the woods to some remote houses," Baroni said during a short break from his unpaid toiling.]]

[CDATA[ SARAJEVO,Bosnia – Everybody knows what the foreign offices are and the EU will continue communicating with the Bosnian Foreign Office in Brussels, Frane Maroevic, Spokesperson of the European Commission Delegation to Bosnia said.He commented the genocidal Serbian creature in Bosnia the RS entity’s announcements that they will open their foreign office in Brussels,but the EC Spokeperson said that it has become a practice for the European regions to open their own foreign offices in Brussels, but they are not given a diplomatic status. ]]

[CDATA[ SARAJEVO,Bosnia – The representatives of the Organizational Committee of the International League of Humanists informed the Bosnian Presidency Chairman Željko Komšić that in the period of September 20-23, 2007, in Sarajevo, upon invitation and in organization of the International League of Humanists, Waclav Havel, Kiro Gligorov and Milan Kučan, former presidents of the Czech Republic, Macedonia and Slovenia, as well as Stjepan Mesić, the President of Croatia, will be presented with the highest awards of the International League of Humanists called “The Humanist of the 20th century”. ]]

[CDATA[ SARAJEVO,Bosnia – By stating that the Bosnian Foreign Affairs Minister Sven Alkalaj (who is a Bosnian citizen of Jewish origin) is a “minister whom no one needs”, the Bosnian Council of Ministers Chairman Nikola Spiric (who is a Bosnian citizen of Serbian origin) has entered the darkness of chauvinism and anti-Semitism the like of which has long not been seen in the Bosnian state institutions, a member of the Bosnian Presidency Haris Silajdzic’s Cabinet stated.Silajdzic stated that Minister Alkalaj is a Bosnian citizen whose ancestors came to Bosnia back in the 15th century finding refuge from intolerance similar to that which Spiric is demonstrating more than five centuries later. ]]

[CDATA[ SARAJEVO,Bosnia - The Office of the international community,s High Representative/EU Special Representative in Bosnia (OHR/EUSR) and the Delegation of the European Commission to Bosnia are disappointed by the Bosnian Parliament’s failure to ratify the Central Europe Free Trade Agreement (CEFTA) ,and look to parliamentarians to support this Agreement when they return from their summer break.“Free trade means jobs and investments – this is a lesson from CEFTA’s founding members, all of whom are now Members of the EU, and all of whom enjoy standards of living that are incomparably higher than they were a decade ago” the international community's High Representative and EU Special Representative in Bosnia, Miroslav Lajcak said. ]]

[CDATA[ GENK,Belgium - A 2-1 win against Belgian champions F.C. Genk last night has left Bosnian champions F.C. Sarajevo closer to the UEFA Champions League third qualifying round.]]

[CDATA[ SARAJEVO,Bosnia – The international community's High representative and the EU Special Representative in Bosnia Miroslav Lajcak will hold individual meetings this week with political parties’ leaders in Bosnia on police reform; the Office of the High Representative in Bosnia (OHR) said. OHR Spokesman Oleg Milisic stated that the meetings will be held at several locations in Bosnia, but could not make any precisions related to the issue. ]]

[CDATA[ SARAJEVO,Bosnia – Haris Silajdzic,a member of the Bosian Presidency sent a letter to Ban Ki Moon, the UN Secretary General, expressing hope that the UN will face the responsibilities and will not fail to fulfill the duty of ensuring international and legal obligations towards Bosnia again.Silajdzic’s letter followed after the one sent June 18 2007. In that letter, he and another member of the Bosnian Presidency,Zeljko Komsic, asked the UN’s assistance in annulling the results of genocide in Bosnia. ]]

[CDATA[ SARAJEVO,Bosnia - The international community's High Representative and EU Special Representative in Bosnia Miroslav Lajcak said in an interview with Onasa News Agency that his main short-term priority is for Bosnia to sign Stabilization and Association Agreement (SAA) with the European Union, noting that police reform is directly linked to that reform.]]

[CDATA[ SARAJEVO,Bosnia – The Bosnian government adopted the Bill Changing and Amending the Law on Bosnian Customs Tariff, proposed by the Bosnian Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Relations.The Bill, containing the new customs tariff, will be sent to the parliamentary procedure. Apart from this law, among other, the zero customs rate has been proposed for the health and civil aviation, as well as lowered customs tariffs for some goods used for production of domestic products. ]]

[CDATA[ SARAJEVO, Bosnia - Bosnians celebrated today 600 years of Islam in their nation with a concert of spiritual music, a prayer for peace, and a gentle reminder to the rest of the Europe: not all of the continent's Muslims are of immigrant origin."Recently we have noticed that the EU is obsessed by the immigrant Muslims from the East," said Mustafa Ceric, leader Of the Bosnian Islamic Community Reisu-l-ulema Mustafa ef. Ceric , the official institution of Bosnia's Muslims. ]]

[CDATA[ SREBRENICA,Bosnia - Remains believed to account for more than 130 genocide victims have been exhumed from a mass grave in eastern Bosnia, a forensic expert said yesterday."We have just completed the exhumation of the grave" that was discovered earlier this month, Murat Hurtic of Bosnia's Missing Persons Commission said. ]]

[CDATA[ SARAJEVO,Bosnia - The Bosnian Presidency had a session yesterday and ratified an Agreement between Bosnia and Croatia on border control, the Bosnian Presidency’s press office said in a statement.The Bosnian Presidency received concurrence about the ratification from the Bosnian parliament. The agreement will be published in the official gazette soon, which will complete the process of its adoption by Bosnia. The agreement will come into effect after Croatia has completed its process of ratification.]]

[CDATA[ SARAJEVO,Bosnia – Miroslav Lajcak, the international community's High Representative in Bosnia will intensify the police reform talks next week, OHR Spokesman Chris Bennet stated at a press conference yesterday.Bennet could not give any more details related to the activities Lajcak will take, but did say that he has used every opportunity at meetings with Bosnia's politicians to understand the obstacles and hear the attitudes related to the reform. ]]

[CDATA[ SARAJEVO,Bosnia – The members of the Bosnian Presidency met in Sarajevo with the US Congress delegation consisted of Melissa Beau, Carolyn Maloney, Mike Ross, Steve Chabot, Russ Carnahan, Jim Cooper, Jim McDermort and Ben Chandler.The Bosnian Presidency members thanked the US for the country’s contribution to peace in Bosnia and for active participation in Bosnia’s reconstruction processes. ]]

[CDATA[ SARAJEVO,Bosnia – Director of the Bosnian Directorate for European Integration Osman Topcagic, President of the FBiH Entity Association of Municipalities and Cities Ljubo Beslic, President of the RS Entity Association of Municipalities and Cities Dragomir Kezunovic and representative of the Dutch Organisation for Development Wilbert Schouten signed in Sarajevo a Memorandum of Understanding defining basic principles and areas of cooperation in the process of European integration between its signatories. ]]

[CDATA[ SARAJEVO,Bosnia - The international community's High Representative and EU Special Representative in Bosnia, Miroslav Lajčák,urged the newly formed Bosnian State Property Commission to reach agreement on the apportionment of state property by the end of September.“The appointment of new members to the Bosnian State Property Commission is extremely encouraging.The Commission must now focus on meeting the deadline set by the Peace Implementation’s Steering Board at its June meting,” Lajcak said. ]]

[CDATA[ ROME,Italy - The Bosnian Foreign Affairs Minister Sven Alkalaj met with Italian Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Affairs Minister Massimo D’Alema in Rome. Alkalaj thanked for the generous support Italy has provided to Bosnia so far, as well as for the Italian support in the political field. He also thanked Italy for the participation of its peacekeepers in Bosnia.D’Alema said that Italy strongly supports Bosnia on its road towards Euro-Atlantic integration and stressed that the integration of the entire Balkans region with the EU is in the interest of Italy.]]

[CDATA[ SARAJEVO,Bosnia - The international community's High Representative and EU Special Representative in Bosnia, Miroslav Lajčák, met yesterday in Sarajevo with EUFOR’s Operational Commander and NATO Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe, General John Reith.The international community's High Representative and EU Special Representative in Bosnia updated General Reith on the political situation in Bosnia and his priorities at the start of his mandate: creating a constructive political atmosphere; police restructuring; and Bosnia's progress towards the signature of a Stabilisation and Association agreement with the European Union. ]]

[CDATA[ SARAJEVO,Bosnia - The international community's High Representative and EU Special Representative in Bosnia, Miroslav Lajčák, and the Head of the EU Police Mission in Bosnia, Vincenzo Coppola, met in Sarajevo yesterday to discuss ways to take police reform in Bosnia forward and open the door to Bosnia’s Stabilisation and Association Agreement (SAA) with the EU. Concrete progress on police restructuring in September is required for Bosnia not to fall further behind neighbouring countries on the path to the EU membership.]]

[CDATA[ SARAJEVO,Bosnia - The international community's High Representative and EU Special Representative in Bosnia (HR/EUSR), Miroslav Lajcak held a meeting with Bosnian State Court President Meddzida Kreso.The HR/EUSR thanked the Bosnian State Court President for the close co-operation, which made possible the measures he took last week to limit the possibility for those under investigation to avoid justice.]]

[CDATA[ SREBRENICA,Bosnia – Members of the “Mothers of Srebrenica and Zepa Enclaves” Association reacted after Thursday’s lineup of the Serbian fascists "Ravna Gora Chetnik movement" in Srebrenica by an announcement stating that only a day after the July 11, Serbian fascists triumphed over the sorrow of the Srebrenica mothers.”By allowing chetniks to lineup and hurt the dignity of genocide victims, the state and world institutions watched again Bosnians of Srebrenica suffer”, they stated. ]]

[CDATA[ SARASOTA,USA - Police say a Bosnian American immigrant family is the victim of a hate crime in Sarasota,Florida.Hasib Sejfovic, his wife and two children fled to the United States to escape the 1992-1995 Serbian,Montenegrin and Croatian aggressions against Bosnia, but here they became victims again. Investigators say someone burned the Sejfovic home to the ground and spray painted anti-Islamic slurs on the outside and inside of the house. ]]

[CDATA[ SARASOTA,USA - Islamic activists are calling on the FBI to investigate a hate crime in which a Bosnian family's home in Sarasota,Florida was burned and spray painted with anti-Muslim slurs.Hasib Sejfovic, 43, walked through what was left of his Avila Avenue home Friday afternoon. He looked at the charred remains of his couch, and the kitchen he recently spent $15,000 remodeling. ]]

[CDATA[ WASHINGTON,USA – US Congressman Chris Smith addressed the US Congress on the occasion of the 12th anniversary of the genocide in Srebrenica. ]]

[CDATA[ SREBRENICA,Bosnia - The Bosnian civilians who survived the genocide in Srebrenica and vicious attacks against them described mortar shells that produced a strange smoke, one that spread out slowly.Survivors testified that some people then began to hallucinate and act irrationally, killing themselves or their friends. Human Rights Watch believed the chemical used was B-Z, a non-lethal agent that incapacitates people.B-Z is a chemical the army of the former Yugoslavia possessed. ]]

[CDATA[ SREBRENICA,Bosnia - An estimated 30,000 people gathered in the Bosnian town of Srebrenica yesterday to bury 465 newly identified genocide victims and remember Europe's worst mass murder since the Second World War. ]]

[CDATA[ SREBRENICA,Bosnia - The 12th anniversary of the genocide in Srebrenica will be commemorated today.The remains of 465 Bosnians murdered by the genocidal Serbian aggressor in the eastern Bosnian town of Srebrenica will be buried. ]]

[CDATA[ SARAJEVO,Bosnia – The idea for nominating the eastern Bosnian town of Srebrenica as a place of genocide for the UNESCO World Heritage List is worth considering in all aspects, the Chairman of the Bosnian Commission to Preserve National Monuments Dubravko Lovrenovic said yesterday. ]]

[CDATA[ USTIKOLINA,Bosnia – The oldest mosque in Bosnia,the Turhan Emin-Begova Mosque was officially reopened on Saturday in Ustikolina, at a ceremony attended by several thousand people from all over the country and the Bosnian Islamic Community and government officials. ]]

[CDATA[ SARAJEVO,Bosnia - In his first interview since he officially took office as High Representative of the international community and Special Representative of the European Union in Bosnia, Slovak diplomat Miroslav Lajčák emphasised that he had international support and he was coming as a friend. During the interview for Bosnian daily newspaper "Oslobođenje" Lajčák made an impression of a sincere and open person, who has the best intentions for Bosnia. ]]

[CDATA[ SARAJEVO,Bosnia - Zeljko Komsic took over the chairmanship of the Bosnian State Presidency yesterday, replacing Nebojsa Radmanovic.Zeljko Komsic was elected to the Bosnian State Presidency on the ticket of the Social Democratic Party. ]]

[CDATA[ SARAJEVO,Bosnia - The German President Horst Kohler pledged his country's support for Bosnia's bid for European Union membership, but warned that success for the Balkan nation depended on making the necessary reforms. ]]

[CDATA[ SARAJEVO,Bosnia – The President of Germany Horst Köhler will pay an official visit to Bosnia today,July 5.This is the second time that a German president is visiting Bosnia, said German Ambassador to Bosnia Michael Schmunk. ]]

[CDATA[ SARAJEVO,Bosnia – New international community's High Representative in Bosnia Miroslav Lajcak held his first meeting with members of the Bosnian Presidency in Sarajevo. They discussed the road of Bosnia towards the EU membership. ]]

[CDATA[ SARAJEVO,Bosnia - Slovak diplomat Miroslav Lajcak began a new post yesterday as the international community's high representative in Bosnia.Lajcak takes over from German diplomat Christian Schwarz-Schilling, who was supposed to be Bosnia's last international community's high representative — an ad hoc position created under the 1995 Dayton Peace Accords to ensure its provisions were implemented until local authority was re-established. ]]

[CDATA[ TEHRAN,Iran - Iran and Bosnia are to extend their cultural ties by making a movie with the theme of Bosnian women's role at the Srebrenica Massacre.Iranian documentary cinema center, Bosnian Mama Company and producers from Germany and France will sponsor the film "Snow" directed by Bosnian film director Aida Bagic,who also wrote the script of the movie. ]]

[CDATA[ SREBRENICA,Bosnia - The remains of more than 400 Bosnians murdered in Srebrenica by the genocidal Serbian aggressor in July 1995 will be buried there this month on the 12th anniversary of Europe’s worst atrocity since World War II, organisers said.]]

[CDATA[ BRATISLAVA,Slovakia - "The time has come for Bosnia to move beyond the rigid 1995 Dayton peace treaty and strive for "political normalisation" with a reformed constitution",said the international community's high representative in Bosnia,Miroslav Lajcak, who is to take charge next week.]]

[CDATA[ The bridge of “Mehmed-pasha Sokolovic” in Visegrad has been installed on the UNESCO World Heritage List, confirmed yesterday the Bosnian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.]]

[CDATA[ SREBRENICA,Bosnia - 48 skeletons have been exhumed from two mass graves in Bosnia believed to contain the genocide victims from the eastern Bosnian town of Srebrenica , a judicial official said yesterday.]]

[CDATA[ AMMAN,Jordan – The Bosnian Presidency members met on the third and last day of their visit to the Kingdom of Jordan with the country’s Prime Minister Marouf al-Bakhiti and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Jordan Abdul Ilah al-Khatib.]]

[CDATA[ AMMAN, Jordan – The members of the Bosnian Presidency Haris Silajdzic,Zeljko Komsic and Nebojsa Radmanovic are in an official visit to Jordan. Welcoming ceremony was organized in the Amman’s Royal Palace, where the Bosnian Presidency members were welcomed by His Royal Highness King Abdullah II Bin Husein of Jordan.]]

[CDATA[ SARAJEVO,Bosnia - Rising above the quiet neighbourhood in Nova Breka district in Sarajevo, Masjid Malaysia is a living symbol of the friendship between Bosnia and Malaysia.]]

[CDATA[ SARAJEVO,Bosnia - Malaysia and Bosnia are prepared to review certain policies to help boost trade.The Malaysian Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi said the main objective was to facilitate the implementation of any economic agreement.]]

[CDATA[ SARAJEVO,Bosnia – The Malaysian Prime Minister Dato' Seri Abdullah Haji Ahmad Badawi, who is in an official visit to Bosnia, visited the University of Sarajevo Rectorate yesterday and met with the Sarajevo University representatives. He held a lecture “Plural Society and Nation Development”.]]

[CDATA[ SARAJEVO,Bosnia - Malaysia has been urged to expand its Islamic banking to Bosnia due to the rising interest in such products and services, according to the Bosnian first Islamic Bank CEO.]]

[CDATA[ SARAJEVO,Bosnia – Haris Silajdzic,a member of the Bosnian Presidency issued a statement in which he concludes with regret that the Peace Implementation Council Declaration has ignored entirely the factual situation in Bosnia and that it is trying in every way possible to maintain the impression of equal responsibility of all political factors in Bosnia for the impasse in reforms.]]

[CDATA[ SREBRENICA,Bosnia - A new mass grave believed to contain the remains of genocide victims from Srebrenica has been discovered in eastern Bosnia.]]

[CDATA[ SARAJEVO, Bosnia - Two members of the Bosnian Presidency,Haris Silajdzic and Zeljko Komsic, have called on the United Nations to help eliminate the results of genocide in Bosnia.Since the end of the 1992-95 Serbian,Montenegrin and Croatian aggressions against Bosnia, the country has been divided into two entities — the genocidal Serbian creature in Bosnia "the RS entity" and the FBIH entity.]]

[CDATA[ SARAJEVO,Bosnia – The Business Forum of Bosnian and Malaysian businessmen will take place in Sarajevo on June 21 in organization of the Bosnian Foreign Trade Chamber and the Embassy of Malaysia to Bosnia. ]]

[CDATA[ BRCKO,Bosnia - Up to ten thousand people gathered yesterday in the northern Bosnian town of Brcko to attend the funeral ceremony for 80 people killed in the town at the beginning of the 1992-1995 Serbian aggression against Bosnia.Leader Of Bosnia's Islamic Community Reisu-l-ulema Mustafa ef. Ceric held the service that was also attended by Bosnian officials. ]]

[CDATA[ BANJA LUKA,Bosnia – The Bosnian Indirect Tax Authority (ITA) has become the 39th member of the Intra-European Organization of Tax Administrations (IOTA). The Bosnian Indirect Tax Authority jointed IOTA at the Organization’s General Assembly in Varna, Bulgaria,ITA said. ]]

[CDATA[ SARAJEVO,Bosnia – The US Ambassador to Bosnia Douglas McElhaney stated that the divisions between political parties in Bosnia will be discussed at the PIC meeting next week. ]]

[CDATA[ SARAJEVO,Bosnia - Political crisis is blocking Bosnia’s path to EU, causing the public to lose trust in politicians and the younger generation to feel less and less optimistic about the future, the international community's High Representative and EU Special Representative in Bosnia, Christian Schwarz-Schilling told Bosnia’s legislators yesterday. ]]

[CDATA[ LISBON,Portugal - The Bosnian Foreign Affairs Minister Sven Alkalaj said yesterday in Lisbon that Bosnia should be ready to sign an agreement that marks the first step towards EU membership by the end of the year. ]]

[CDATA[ SARAJEVO, Bosnia -Thousands of genocide survivors protested in Sarajevo yesterday, demanding a special administrative status for the eastern Bosnian town of Srebrenica, saying it shouldn't be run by the Serbians living in Bosnia who committed genocide there. ]]

[CDATA[ SARAJEVO,BOSNIA - The Iranian Foreign Ministry Director General for Central and Northern Europe,Ali Baqeri called for expansion of trade and economic ties between Iran and Bosnia. ]]

[CDATA[ SARAJEVO,Bosnia – The Mayor of Sarajevo Semiha Borovac and the Spanish Ambassador to Bosnia Jose Castroviejo y Bolibar signed an agreement on reconstruction of the Bosnian National Library in the amount of EUR 1 million.]]

[CDATA[ NEW YORK,UNITED NATIONS - The United Nations has received documents in a suit that the Srebrenica genocide survivors brought against it over its failure to prevent the genocide in Bosnia, but is immune from legal action, a U.N. spokeswoman Marie Okabe said yesterday.]]

[CDATA[ SARAJEVO,Bosnia – The Office of the international communiy's High Representative in Bosnia (OHR),the EU and US partners are doing everything to create conditions for Bosnia's constitutional reform, Ljiljana Radetic, OHR Spokeswoman stated yesterday.]]

[CDATA[ SARAJEVO,Bosnia - Zlatan Muslimovic scored yesterday at the Asim Ferhatovic Hase stadium in Sarajevo to give Bosnia a 1-0 win over Malta in Euro 2008 qualifier.]]

[CDATA[ SARAJEVO,Bosnia – The Bosnian Ministry of Defence hosts the 6th Southeast Europe Clearinghouse (SEEC) conference on coordinating aid and assistance for defence projects in Southeast European countries on June 6-8.]]

[CDATA[ THE HAGUE,The Netherlands - The families of up to 10.000 Bosnian men and boys murdered in 1995 by the genocidal Serbian aggressor in the eastern Bosnian town of Srebrenica sued the United Nations and the Dutch state for failing to prevent the genocide in Srebrenica.]]

[CDATA[ SARAJEVO,Bosnia - The international community's High Representative in Bosnia Christian Schwarz-Schilling will hold a series of meetings this week with the leaders of main political parties in Bosnia in order to hear their positions on how to move forward with key reform processes.OHR spokesperson Ljiljana Radetic stressed that these meetings will be closed for the public and that she therefore cannot comment on them any further.]]

[CDATA[ SARAJEVO, Bosnia - An 89th-minute goal from debutant Adnan Custovic gave Bosnia a 3-2 home win over Turkey in their Euro 2008 Group C qualifier.Turkey lost for the first time in its European Championship group after Adnan Custovic,who came on as a substitute in the 82nd minute, steered a glancing header from 10 metres into an empty net]]

[CDATA[ SARAJEVO,Bosnia - F.C.Sarajevo won the Bosnian Premier League title while deposed champions F.C.Široki Brijeg had to settle for the Bosnian cup at the end of a busy Bosnian football season.Sarajevo are the champions, adding their first Bosnian crown to the Yugoslavian ones they won in 1967 and 1985.]]

[CDATA[ The International Humanist League (IHL) awarded their traditional awards for "humanistic efforts" to Montenegrin war criminals Milo Djukanovic and Svetozar Marovic.Montenegrin war criminal Milo Djukanovic was the Montenegrin Prime Minister during the Serbian and Montenegrin aggressions against Bosnia and Croatia.In the 1991-1997 period he governed loyally to Serbian war criminal Slobodan Milosevic.In 1990 Montenegrin war criminal Svetozar Marovic became a member of Montenegro's parliament, and later served as its speaker for three terms.Throughout the early and mid 1990s in high politics he's been a loyal supporter of Serbian war criminal Slobodan Milošević in all of his genocidal policies. ]]

[CDATA[ SARAJEVO,Bosnia - The international community's High Representative in Bosnia, Christian Schwarz-Schilling,issued yesterday a Decision extending the Bosnian state and entity laws which temporarily prohibit the disposal of state property until 30 September 2007. The High Representative called upon the governments of Bosnia and the entities to agree on the division of rights and responsibilities regarding this property before then,the Office of the international community's High Representative in Bosnia (OHR) said ]]

[CDATA[ SARAJEVO,Bosnia - Almost eight months after the General Elections in Bosnia political stakeholders in the Herzegovina-Neretva Canton continue to prioritize individual and party interests over the interests of citizens.This constitutes a clear abuse of trust of their voters and citizens in general. The fact that there is as yet no government of Herzegovina-Neretva Canton is due solely to the irresponsible conduct of political parties,The Office of the international community's High Representative in Bosnia (OHR) stated. ]]

[CDATA[ SEATTLE,USA - Leader Of Bosnia's Islamic Community Reisu-l-ulema Mustafa ef. Ceric attended in Seattle the annual conference of the Congress of North American Bosniaks. He drew upon a deep affection for the United States before cautioning Americans, "Don't cease to believe that you are good." ]]

[CDATA[ MOSTAR,Bosnia – Center for Civil Initiatives (CCI) sent the initiative to the Bosnian Parliament, the Bosnian Council of Ministers and the Bosnian Central Election Commission, to amend the Bosnian Election Law. The amendment is related to the final deadline for constituting government after the official elections results and introducing the “snap elections” institute. ]]

[CDATA[ DAMASCUS,Syria – General Director of Sheikh Ahmad Kiftaro Academy Saladin Kiftaro met yesterday with religious delegation from Bosnia,headed by Rector of Islamic Studies University of Sarajevo Enes Karic, and discussed with them means of cooperation and exchange between religious and cultural establishments. ]]

[CDATA[ SARAJEVO,Bosnia – The Bosnian economy in 2006 realized good results, real GDP growth was estimated at 6 percent, the prices had gone up rapidly following the VAT introduction bringing inflation at the annual level to seven and a half percent, but the basic pressure of prices was low and inflation returned to the annual rate of approx one percent in early 2007. ]]

[CDATA[ WASHINGTON,USA - The U.S. State Department is expressing disappointment over the failure by key leaders of Bosnia to make progress on government reforms in three days of U.S.-brokered talks in Washington. U.S. officials say the stalemate is blocking the Bosnia's prospective membership in the EU and NATO ]]

[CDATA[ GLAMOC,Bosnia – The remains of a large ancient facility dating back to the III-IV century A.D., architectonic fragments, Roman money and Roman glass have been discovered at the location of Crkvina near the village of Halapic in Municipality Glamoc. ]]

[CDATA[ NEW YORK,USA – Members of the Bosnian Presidency Haris Silajdzic and Nebojsa Radmanovic met in New York with the UN Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon.The meeting was attended by the Ambassador Nerkez Arifhodzic, representative of the Office of a member of the Bosnian Presidency Zeljko Komsic, and Bosnia's Permanent Representative to the UN, Milos Prica. ]]

[CDATA[ SARAJEVO,Bosnia – The Bosnian Foreign Affairs Minister Sven Alkalaj is leading the Bosnian delegation at the 16th annual meeting of the Board of Governors of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), which is taking place from May 20 to 23 in Kazan in the Russian Federation. ]]

[CDATA[ SARAJEVO,Bosnia - The Senior Deputy High Representative to Bosnia Peter Bas-Backer reiterated calls for progress in crucial EU integration-related reforms, in an interview in the Nezavisne Novine daily on Saturday. ]]

[CDATA[ SARAJEVO,Bosnia - "Bosnia needs a State Ombudsman. This is one of the conditions of the European Union’s Feasibility Study",Douglas Davidson, the Head of the OSCE Mission to Bosnia stated in his interview with Bosnian daily Dnevni Avaz. ]]

[CDATA[ SARAJEVO,Bosnia – Haris Silajdzic,a member of the Bosnian Presidency, welcomed on the Resolution on the situation in Bosnia adopted at the 34 meeting of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference foreign affairs ministers held in Islamabad on May 15-17. ]]

[CDATA[ NEW YORK,US — The United States and the European Union delivered tough warnings to Bosnia to halt nationalistic rhetoric and start essential reforms or EU membership will become a distant dream. ]]

[CDATA[ ISLAMABAD,Pakistan – During the 34th conference of foreign ministers of the Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC) in Islamabad,the Bosnian Foreign Affairs Minister Sven Alkalaj met with the senior officials of Jordan and Malaysia. During talks with the Minister for Development of Public Sector and State Minister for Parliamentary Relations of Jordan, Mohammed Thunaybat, Alkalaj underlined the good relations between the two countries, which should be improved significantly with the forthcoming visit of the Bosnian Presidency members to the Kingdom of Jordan. ]]

[CDATA[ ISLAMABAD,Pakistan - Iran's Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki has stressed Tehran's support for Bosnia saying Iranians are always there for Bosnians both during and after the Serbian,Montenegrin and Croatian aggressions against Bosnia. ]]

[CDATA[ SARAJEVO,Bosnia - Members of the Bosnian Presidency are to visit Iraq this week, the Bosnian Presidency confirmed yesterday. ]]

[CDATA[ SARAJEVO,Bosnia - The Slovak diplomat Miroslav Lajčák has been appointed the next international community's High Representative in Bosnia, the Office of the High Representative announced in Sarajevo. ]]

[CDATA[ BRATUNAC, Bosnia - Thousands of Bosnians attended yesterday the burial of 94 men,women and children killed by the genocidal Serbian aggressor at the outbreak of the 1992-95 Serbian aggression against Bosnia. ]]

[CDATA[ BERLIN,Germany – The EU Member States approved the text of the Stabilisation and Association Agreement with Bosnia on May 3,2007. The conclusion of this Agreement could bring Bosnia a step closer to the EU, the EU Presidency stated yesterday. ]]

[CDATA[ SARAJEVO,Bosnia - A first high-level coordination meeting on Srebrenica took place yesterday at the Office of the High Representative at which Ambassador Igor Davidovic was appointed chairman of this body. ]]

[CDATA[ SARAJEVO,Bosnia – In regard to the status of Srebrenica, the Party for Bosnia (SBiH), the Party of Democratic Action (SDA) and the Social Democratic Party (SDP) have expressed their unanimous and clear support to the request of the people of Srebrenica for special administrative status of Srebrenica and the other municipalities in eastern Bosnia, which are victims of genocide. ]]

[CDATA[ THE HAGUE,The Netherlands – The Bosnian Foreign Affairs Minister Sven Alkalaj met with the ICTY Chief Prosecutor Carla del Ponte in the Hague as part of his working visit to Holland, the Bosnian Ministry of Foreign Affairs stated.]]

[CDATA[ SREBRENICA,Bosnia – Members of the “Mothers of Srebrenica and Podrinje” Association of Citizens stated that they were surprised by the OHR reaction related to the nomination of Clifford Bond to the position of the Special Envoy for Srebrenica, and are of the opinion that the international community's High Representative in Bosnia has obviously fallen under the influence of Milorad Dodik (the Prime Minister of the genocidal Serbian creature in Bosnia - "the RS entity").]]

[CDATA[ SARAJEVO,Bosnia – The Bosnian Prime Minister Nikola Spiric appointed Igor Davidovic as Coordinator for Srebrenica on behalf of the Bosnian government. ]]

[CDATA[ SARAJEVO,Bosnia - OHR's Envoy for Srebrenica Clifford Bond will hold his first meeting with leading political officials in Bosnia next week at the Office of the international community's High Representative in Bosnia (OHR). ]]

[CDATA[ SARAJEVO,Bosnia - The international community's High Representative and the EU Special Envoy in Bosnia Christian Schwarz-Schilling,imposed yesterday amendments to Bosnia’s Law on Indirect Taxation System and the Law on Payments into the Single Account and Distribution of Revenues. ]]

[CDATA[ SARAJEVO,Bosnia - The international community's High Representative and the EU Special Envoy in Bosnia, Christian Schwarz-Schilling,appointed Clifford Bond, former US Ambassador to Bosnia, as his Envoy to the Srebrenica Region. ]]

[CDATA[ THE HAGUE,The Netherlands - The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) says it will consider a prosecutor's request to lift the confidentiality on some documents linked to the war crimes trial of the late Serbian war criminal Slobodan Milosevic. ]]

[CDATA[ WASHINGTON,USA - The Bosnian Foreign Affairs Minister Sven Alkalaj is visiting the USA. The visit will end on May 4th. Alkalaj will meet with top representatives of the U.S. administration and members of the Senate and the Congress. ]]

[CDATA[ SARAJEVO,Bosnia - The Bosnian Foreign Ministry yesterday received the diplomatic note from the Serbian Embassy, in which Serbia calls for an end of Bosnia’s campaign against the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruling that exonerated Serbia of direct responsibility for genocide during the 1992-95 Serbian aggression against Bosnia. ]]

[CDATA[ SARAJEVO,Bosnia - The President the Islamic Republic of Pakistan Pervez Musharraf has launched his autobiography, "In the Line of Fire", in the Bosnian language.He said he decided to launch the book in the Bosnian language as he wanted the people of Bosnia to know the role of a leader "who successfully went through various difficult stages" in life. ]]

[CDATA[ SREBRENICA, Bosnia - The President the Islamic Republic of Pakistan Pervez Musharraf continued Saturday his official visit to Bosnia, going to the northern city of Tuzla and the eastern town of Srebrenica.He visited a monument dedicated to Pakistani forces at Tuzla city, located 120 km from the capital of Bosnia.People of Tuzla built the monument to have permanent memory of armed forces of Pakistan who served as a part of the UN peace keeping mission in Bosnia during the Serbian,Montenegrin and Croatian aggressions against Bosnia. ]]

[CDATA[ SARAJEVO,Bosnia - The President the Islamic Republic of Pakistan Pervez Musharraf arrived in Bosnia yesterday.The Bosnian Presidency members greeted the President of Pakistan in front of the Bosnian Presidency building in Sarajevo together with the honorary unit of the Bosnian Armed Forces.Bosnian and Pakistani officials discussed boosting ties between the two countries, notably in the economic sphere. ]]

[CDATA[ SARAJEVO,Bosnia - The President of Pakistan Pervez Musharraf is to begin a two-day official visit to Bosnia today, as part of his four-nation European tour,the Bosnian Presidency confirmed in Sarajevo.Musharraf is due to meet top Bosnian officials, members of the Bosnian Presidency and the Bosnian Prime Minister in Sarajevo today. ]]

[CDATA[ DOHA,Qatar – The Prime Minister of Qatar, Sheikh Hamad Al-Tani met with a member of the Bosnian Presidency Haris Silajdzic during the second day of his visit to Qatar. At Silajdzic’s initiative Prime Minister Al-Tani approved the establishment of a 100 million USD fund for Bosnia, which will be used for financing projects proposed by Bosnia. ]]

[CDATA[ THE HAGUE,The Netherlands – A Dutch court has ordered the Ministry of Defence to allow access to classified documents to the widow of one of the victims of genocide in Srebrenica. ]]

[CDATA[ SARAJEVO,Bosnia – Mourning can be seen in the Bjelave orphanage yesterday in Sarajevo, after a fire killed five babies, residents of the institution.Telegrams have been sent from all over Bosnia and region. ]]

[CDATA[ SARAJEVO,Bosnia - A fire at an orphanage in the Bosnian capital Sarajevo early yesterday killed five children and injured at least 17 police said.The fire at the Ljubica Ivezic orphanage in downtown Sarajevo started around 6 am, said police spokesman Dragan Furtula. Two of the injured were in serious condition, Furtula said. ]]

[CDATA[ SARAJEVO,Bosnia – The Bosnian Association of Families of Shehids and Fallen Soldiers announced at a press conference in Sarajevo that its members would start a protest if the FBiH entity law on the rights of these veterans is not changed in 30 days. ]]

[CDATA[ SARAJEVO,Bosnia - Four Serbian war criminals went on trial yesterday at the Bosnian State Courtt for crimes committed in Srebrenica during the Serbian aggression against Bosnia.]]

[CDATA[ THE HAGUE,The Netherlands - The ICTY Prosecutor's Office spokeswoman Olga Kavran confirmed at the press briefing that “there was correspondence” with the Serbian authorities regarding the delivery of documents relevant for the trial of Serbian war criminal Slobodan Milošević and other cases before the Tribunal.]]

[CDATA[ SARAJEVO,Bosnia - The revision of Bosnia's lawsuit against Serbia and Montenegro for aggression and genocide will not depend on acceptance from the Bosnian Presidency,but exclusively on new evidence which the Bosnian team expects to gather very soon. In reaction to statements made by Nebojša Radmanovic, the Serb member of the Bosnian Presidency, which suggested he could "veto" any attempt by Bosnia to seek a review of the ICJ judgment, Bosnia’s legal representative before the ICJ,Sakib Softic dismissed Radmanović’s claims by noting that even if a veto were deployed, Radmanović was legally powerless to stop a review of the decision if new evidence were to emerge.]]

[CDATA[ SARAJEVO,Bosnia – The letter of Geoffrey Nice (the Chief Prosecutor at the trial of Serbian war criminal Slobodan Milosevic) confirms the fact that the International Court of Justice was deprived of the key evidence on involvement of Serbia in genocide in Bosnia. Our legal team documented this fact during the process before the Court and explicitly requested that the Court to order Serbia to deliver all documents from the archive of the Supreme Defense Council, said on the Cabinet of a member of the Bosnian Presidency Haris Silajdzic.]]

[CDATA[ SARAJEVO,Bosnia – Fifty Srebrenica genocide survivors left arrived in Sarajevo and started setting up a camp at the location of Betanija near the Jezero hospital.“The people from Srebrenica will reside at the camp constantly. They are all returnees and they all survived the 1995 genocide”, said the President of the Initiative Board for a special administrative status of Srebrenica, Camil Durakovic. The camp will not close until their request has been fulfilled,he said.]]

[CDATA[ MOSCOW,Russia - Russia has agreed with Bosnia on settling its debt to Bosnia and offsetting Bosnia's liabilities for Russian gas deliveries, a senior official of Russia's finance ministry said. ]]

[CDATA[ ZENICA,Bosnia – The wagon containing radioactive steel that had arrived to the Mettal Steel Company in Zenica from the “Ecore” Company from Hungary, has been sent back to the country after all the necessary permits had been granted for crossing the Croatian and Hungarian territory. ]]

[CDATA[ SARAJEVO,Bosnia – The Bosnian Association of the Concentration Camp Survivors, the Women Victim of Warn Association and the Mothers of Srebrenica and Zepa Enclaves Association representatives announced to file charges against Serbia, Croatia, Montenegro and the genocidal Serb creature "RS entity" in Bosnia, due to the fact that the perpetrators of war crimes are employed at the Serbian,Montengrin and Croatian state institutions and the genocidal Serb creature RS entity institutions in Bosnia are on the pay rolls. ]]

[CDATA[ SARAJEVO,Bosnia – The Bosnian Presidency adopted the Decision on sending a request to Serbia to honour its commitments towards Bosnia stemming from the Convention on Preventing Genocide and Punishing the Crimes of Genocide.The Decision requests Serbia to immediately arrest all Serb war criminals who took part in the genocide in Bosnia who are now hiding in Serbia and to transfer them to the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, as well as to punish all others who took part in genocide in Bosnia and who are currently under Serbian jurisdiction.The Bosnian Presidency member Haris Silajdzic and Zeljko Komsic voted in favour of the Decision, while Nebojsa Radmanovic was against it. ]]

[CDATA[ BANJA LUKA, Bosnia – President of the Party of Democratic Action (SDA) Sulejman Tihic said yesterday in Banja Luka that it will not be possible to have a functional police structure in Bosnia if the cantonal and entity police structures are kept. ]]

[CDATA[ BRUSSELS,Belgium - Negotiations on visa facilitation and readmission agreements between the EU and Bosnia and were concluded yesterday in Brussels. The conclusion of the negotiations was followed by the formal initialling of the agreements. The agreements could enter into force 6 or 7 months after initialling. Before the agreements can enter into force they need to be approved by the EU Council and by Bosnia,the European Commission Delegation to Bosnia stated. This is a clear signal that the EU is keeping the door open for Bosnia and that it will keep to its commitments on the EU perspective of the country. ]]

[CDATA[ SARAJEVO,Bosnia - Parts of amphoras believed to be 2,200 years old uncovered in Bosnia are suspected to have carried wine, experts said yesterday.Professor Snjezana Vasilj, head of a Bosnian team of archaeologists, said a preliminary analysis showed amphoras, found at what are believed remains of the first-ever discovered Illyrian ships, were used for transporting wine. Late in March,professor at the History Department of the Philosophical Faculty in Sarajevo and Archaeology Studies of the University in Mostar ,Snjezana Vasilj,and her team,found what they believed were the Illyrian ships in the Desilo location, more than 20 feet under the water level of the Hutovo Blato swamp, near Capljina in southern Bosnia. ]]

[CDATA[ TEHRAN,Iran – Iran will establish Europe’s first ethanol refinery in Bosnia, Managing Director of Mashal Khazar Darya (MKD) Esmaeil Shahmir reported yesterday. Corn, which due to shortage of water in Iran cannot be cultivated, gives off ethanol, a cheap fuel, he added.He said the contract worth $150 million. ]]

[CDATA[ SARAJEVO,Bosnia - The situation in higher education needs to change and Bosnia finally needs to begin implementing the Bologna Process.Bosnia urgently needs education reform, and it is a pity that it is being put aside in the current plan of reforms. Ambassador Douglas Davidson, Head of the OSCE Mission to Bosnia, said that he is concerned about the “sad fact” that children in schools are still divided, and furthermore there is not a single Bosnian mark allocated in the State budget for this. Davidson believes that the Bosnian authorities are not sending the message that they expect to finally adopt a Law on Higher Education this year. ]]

[CDATA[ SARAJEVO,Bosnia – The cornerstone for the memorial to children killed during the 1992-1995 Serbian aggression against Bosnia has been laid yesterday in downtown Sarajevo in VelikiPark.Even though construction of the memorial will still not start, the parents of the killed children insisted that it be laid on the Sarajevo City Day, April 6. ]]

[CDATA[ BANJA LUKA,Bosnia – The judicial and law enforcement agencies in Bosnia must urgently carry out an investigation into the suspicions that certain individuals perpetrated the genocide in Srebrenica are still employed in police and other public duties, said the Principal Deputy High Representative, Raffi Gregorian at the meeting with representatives of associations of Srebrenica victims. “Accelerating of investigations that refer to 814 individuals for which the Taskforce for Srebrenica had established that they were in or around Srebrenica in July 1995, and which are on public functions, must be a priority for the Bosnian Prosecutor’s Office and the law enforcement bodies”, the spokesperson of Banja Luka OHR, Ljiljana Radetic said yesterday, reporting Gregorian’s stand. ]]

[CDATA[ SARAJEVO,Bosnia – The United States of America will support Bosnia in all the steps necessary for joining the EU, Daniel Fried, Advisor to the US Secretary of State for the Issues of Europe and Eurasia, after the meeting with the Bosnian Presidency members in Sarajevo. Fried said that it was an excellent meeting in which he discussed the issues of the past, present and future of Bosnia, and emphasized he is impressed with the dedication of the Bosnian Presidency members to EU. ]]

[CDATA[ SARAJEVO,Bosnia – It is now up to the Bosnian institutions to decide about further action with regard to amending the Bosnian Constitution, i.e. to decide to give another try to the package that did not pass in the Bosnian Parliamentary Assembly last year or to seek some new procedure. ]]

[CDATA[ SARAJEVO,Bosnia – The Party of Democratic Action (SDA) Main Board adopted the report by SDA President Sulejman Tihic on the current situation in Bosnia. It also supported requests for a special status of Srebrenica and other areas from which the victims of genocide have come (Zepa, Vlasenica, Bratunac, Milici) according to the verdict of the International Court of Justice (ICJ). ]]

[CDATA[ SARAJEVO,Bosnia - The Bosnian Minister of Finance Dragan Vrankic met in Sarajevo with the representatives of the Economic and Financial Affairs Directorate of the European Commission Peter Grassman and Katrin Bergkvist, and Konstantin Wobking, the European Commission Delegation Department of Politics and Economy Chief.They discussed the economical and fiscal aspect of the Bosnian Budget for 2007, the debt issue and the fiscal coordination and management. ]]

[CDATA[ SARAJEVO,Bosnia - Wide-scale celebrations were observed yesterday at mosques and Islamic institutions and study-centers throughout Bosnia marking the birthday of Muhammad (PBUH) the Prophet and Messenger of God.Numerous lecturers and public speakers delivered speeches to the public at these celebrations, one of which was organized by the college of Islamic studies in Sarajevo. Dean of the college Dr Enes Karic, in a speech he gave at the college, noted the many lessons Muslims could glean from the biography of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) with which they could enrich their lives. ]]

[CDATA[ SARAJEVO,Bosnia – Party for Bosnia (SBIH) President and the Bosnian Presidency member Haris Silajdzic, Party of Democratic Action (SDA) President Sulejman Tihic and Social-Democratic Party (SDP) President Zlatko Lagumdzija met with the international community's High Representative in Bosnia Christian Schwarz-Schilling and US Ambassador to Bosnia Douglas McElhaney in the Bosnian Presidency. They discussed the current political situation in Bosnia focussing on the latest developments in Srebrenica. The three party leaders stressed their unanimous support for the Resolution of the Srebrenica Municipal Council and underlined the need for fulfilling demands stated in the Resolution. ]]

[CDATA[ SARAJEVO,Bosnia – The Bosnian House of Representatives did not accept yesterday the Bill on the Bosnian Constitutional Court sponsored by representative Momcilo Novakovic.Namely, the House of Representatives accepted the negative report of the Constitutional and Legal Commission within the House of Representatives, which means that the representatives rejected the said bill. The House adopted a conclusion that tasks the Constitutional and Legal Commission to open the process of designing the law on the constitutional court and to organize a public debate on this.]]

[CDATA[ SARAJEVO,Bosnia – Citizens’ Association “Women of Srebrenica” regarded on Wednesday the threat by High Representative Christian Schwarz-Schilling that he would take measures in the case of the attempted realization of the Resolution of Srebrenica Municipal Assembly on secession of this municipality from the genocidal creature "RS entity" in Bosnia as a new form of support by the international community to those that have been killing Srebrenica since 1992. ]]

[CDATA[ SARAJEVO,Bosnia – The Office of the international community's High Representative in Bosnia (OHR) is concerned about a resolution that would remove Srebrenica from the jurisdiction of the genocidal Serb-majority RS entity in Bosnia and grant it special administrative status within Bosnia. If the Srebrenica municipal assembly were to act on this, the OHR will take robust action, Mario Brkic, the OHR Spokesman announced yesterday. ]]

[CDATA[ BANJA LUKA,Bosnia – Director of the Council of Europe’s Directorate for Political Affairs Jean-Louis Laurens said in Banja Luka yesterday that the CE has not adopted a specific position on initiatives for the special administrative status of Srebrenica that would remove Srebrenica from the entity-level jurisdiction of the genocidal Serb-majority RS entity in Bosnia and grant it special administrative status within Bosnia, but said that this institution "supports the Dayton Agreement". Director of the Council of Europe’s Directorate for Political Affairs Jean – Louis Laurens also warned in Banja Luka yesterday that by stalling reforms Bosnia is losing time and opportunities, and expressed hope that all Bosnian political leaders will return reforms to the right track. ]]

[CDATA[ SREBRENICA,Bosnia - The Bosniak members of Srebrenica municipal assembly adopted a resolution on Saturday (March 24th,2007) that would remove the town from the jurisdiction of the genocidal Serb-majority RS entity in Bosnia and grant it special administrative status within Bosnia. ]]

[CDATA[ OSLO,Norway - Bosnia boosted the chances of qualifying for Euro 2008 with victory over Norway in an incident-packed match in Oslo.Bosnia's 2-1 victory over Norway came after the match was halted for about 30 minutes shortly after kick-off after flares were thrown onto the pitch from the stands. ]]

[CDATA[ VIENNA,Austria – The Bosnian Minister of Foreign Affairs Sven Alkalaj visited austria.He was received in Vienna by the President of the Republic of Austria Heinz Fischer, in the presidential palace.Fischer emphasized that the political relations between