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- Hungary, Slovenia eye gas, power grid links
BUDAPEST: Hungary and Slovenia are examining the possibility of linking their gas and electricity networks to enhance the safety of supply, their prime ministers said yesterday. Hungary, which gets 80 percent of its gas from Russia, supplied Bosnia,
- US, NATO losing in Afghanistan, Ashdown says
LONDON: A top British diplomat says that all foreign troops are losing in Afghanistan because their leaders do not know how to handle the war. 'We're losing,' Paddy Ashdown, the former British representative for Bosnia, said on Tuesday. He also added the
- Hungary, Slovenia consider gas and power grid links
Hungary, which gets 80% of its gas from Russia, supplied Bosnia, Serbia and Croatia with natural gas in January through oil and gas company MOL during the Ukraine gas transit crisis, when millions in east Europe were left freezing. Hungarian Prime
- Karadzic trial faces further delay
The trial of former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic is unlikely to start before September, the judge at his Yugoslav war crimes tribunal said Wednesday.
- Serbia: Muslims demand more rights in south
(AKI) - Minority Muslims living in Serbias southern Sandzak region have demanded more rights and a reorganisation of the region in the future decentralisation of power in the country. The Bosniac National Council which represents Sandzak Muslims, adopted
- Serbia Probes Media Role in War Crimes
Opinion divided over prospects of investigation into incitement by journalists during the Balkan wars. By Iva Martinovic in Belgrade, Goran Vezic in Split, Dzenana Karabegovic in Sarajevo and Biljana Jovicevic in Podgorica (TU No 607, 26-June-09) A plan
- Serbia wants explanation on Ceku release
SARAJEVO, June 26 (RIA Novosti) - Serbian President Boris Tadic says he is waiting for an explanation from Bulgaria as to why former Kosovo prime minister Agim Ceku, detained on an Interpol wanted list, has been released, Belgrade media reported. Ceku
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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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