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- Briefs-Bosnian Halilhodzic named Ivory Coast coach
May 13 (Reuters) - Sports briefs from around the world on Tuesday. Soccer - Bosnian Vahid Halilhodzic has been named Ivory Coast coach, signing a two-year contract to take charge of the country's bid to reach a second successive World Cup finals. The
- Southeastern European police chiefs meet in Sarajevo
SARAJEVO, Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) -- The Southeastern European Police Chief Association (SEPCA) wraps up a two-day seminar Friday (May 9th) in Sarajevo about fighting organised crime. Brigadier General Vincenzo Coppola, head of the EU Police Mission
- Croatia seeks equal rights for Croats in BiH
ZAGREB, Croatia -- Foreign Minister Gordan Jandrokovic says Croatia wants Bosnian Croats to have the same constitutional rights as the other two nationalities in Bosnia and Herzegovina. He told the Banja Luka-based newspaper Nezavisne Novine on Tuesday
- Mending bridges in Mostar
The city of Mostar lies at a crossroads of cultures: just inland from the Adriatic coast, in the southern part of Bosnia-Herzegovina. Mostar -- where Orthodox Serbs, Catholic Croats and Muslim Bosniaks had lived in seeming harmony before the war, then suffered horribly when its warring neighborhoods turned the city into a killing zone -- provided me with one of the richest experiences of my travel year.
- EUX.TV Week 18: Serbia, Inflation, China
BRUSSELS (EUX.TV) -- Serbia moved a step closer to membership of the European Union this week, angering neighbour Bosnia which has still to make that step. Prizes were handed out in Brussels and Aachen for journalism and youth projects, while worries
- Bosnia-Herzegovina: Antidote to Croatia's crowds
(Tribune Media Services) -- These days Croatia's Dalmatian Coast is inundated with tourists -- and understandably so. But after a visit to Dubrovnik, the 'Pearl of the Adriatic,' I'm in the mood for a good Balkan adventure and decide to drive directly
- Bosnia-Herzegovina: Antidote to Croatia's tourist crowds
These days Croatia's Dalmatian Coast is inundated with tourists -- and understandably so. But after a visit to Dubrovnik, the "Pearl of the Adriatic," I'm in the mood for a good Balkan adventure and decide to drive directly inland ... to Bosnia-Herzegovina.
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Bosnia and Herzegovinas declaration of sovereignty in October of 1991, was followed by a referendum for independence from the former Yugoslavia in February of 1992. The Bosnian Serbs - supported by neighboring Serbia - responded with armed resistance aimed at partitioning the republic along ethnic lines and joining Serb-held areas to form a "greater Serbia." In March 1994, Bosnias Bosniaks and Croats reduced the number of warring factions from three to two by signing an agreement creating a joint Bosniak/Croat Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina. On 21 November 1995, in Dayton, Ohio, the warring parties signed a peace agreement that brought to a halt the three years of interethnic civil strife (the final agreement was signed in Paris on 14 December 1995). The Dayton Agreement divides Bosnia and Herzegovina roughly equally between the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Bosnian Serb Republika Srpska. In 1995-96, a NATO-led international peacekeeping force (IFOR) of 60,000 troops served in Bosnia to implement and monitor the military aspects of the agreement. IFOR was succeeded by a smaller, NATO-led Stabilization Force (SFOR) whose mission is to deter renewed hostilities. SFOR remains in place, with troop levels to be reduced to about 19,000 by spring 2000.
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Reuters - Serbia's pro-European alliance was to
start coalition talks with smaller parties on Monday to stave
off a challenge from nationalist runners-up who say they too
can form a government after Sunday's parliamentary election.
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