Alija Izetbegović

Friday's appointment of Sebija Izetbegovic, wife of the Bosniak member of the Bosnian Presidency, as director of the University Clinical Center of Sarajevo, UKCS, an important medical institute, has caused controversy in Bosnia.

Sebija, who has been director of the Abdulah Nakash hospital in Sarajevo since 2013, was elected at a session of the board of the UKCS on January 6.

Relations with Serbia are improving, while Bosnia-Herzegovina will not recognize Kosovo in the foreseeable future, Bakir Izetbegovic has said.

Izetbegovic, the leader of the SDA party and the Bosniak (Muslim) member of the country's tripartite presidency, made these statements for Turkey's Anadolu news agency.

Today marks 20 years since the General Framework Agreement for Peace in Bosnia-Herzegovina, also known as the Dayton Agreement, was signed in Paris in 1995.

It was signed by the then presidents of Serbia and Croatia, Slobodan Milosevic and Franjo Tudjman, and Chairman of the Presidency of Bosnia-Herzegovina Alija Izetbegovic.

The Croat and Bosniak members of the Bosnian Presidency Dragan Covic and Bakir Izetbegovic met yesterday with the Turkish President Recep Tayyp Erdogan in the first of a two days visit to Ankara and Istanbul.

Bakir Izetbegovic has said that Serbian PM Aleksanda Vucic's initiative to establish a joint day of remembrance is "premature and incomplete."

Bakir Izetbegovic has rejected the claims that he and people close to him were behind the attack that targeted Serbian PM Aleksandar Vucic.

Bosnian Presidency member Bakir Izetbegovic has send a letter to the president of the UN Security Council supporting a draft British resolution on Srebrenica.

This has been reported by the Turkish agency Anatolia.

Nikolic's first official visit to Sarajevo, which was scheduled for Tuesday, was cancelled after the Bosniak member of Bosnia's tripartite presidency, Bakir Izetbegovic, asked for it to be postponed following last week's arrest of Oric, the former Bosniak commander in Srebrenica.

A congress of the Party of Democratic Action, SDA, on Tuesday elected a new leadership for the new four years, electing Bakir Izetbegovic as president while choosing a deputy president, eight vice-presidents and a new main board.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan visited Sarajevo on Wednesday on a trip packed with diplomatic and business events and designed to highlight close Turkish ties to Bosnia - an almost half-Muslim country and a former province of the Ottoman Empire.