Bosnia and Herzegovina–Serbia relations

BANJALUKA - The policy of Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic is that Serbia will always stand with Republika Srpska while respecting the Dayton Agreement and the sovereignty of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbian Minister of Internal and External Trade Tomislav Momirovic said after meeting with Republika Srpska Minister of Trade and Tourism Denis Sulic in Banjaluka Wednesday.

Since the last annual commemoration of the Srebrenica genocide in July 2022, the Bosnian state prosecution has only filed one indictment for Srebrenica crimes - charging a suspect who lives in Serbia and cannot be arrested.

But the process of peacebuilding is never a straight line and is often slowed down by chauvinistic and nationalist narratives and actions coming from key politicians, state-controlled media and extremist groups.

Participants in the 12th annual women's right protest on March 8 in the Bosnian city of Banja Luka, the administrative centre of Bosnia's Serb-dominated Republika Srpska entity, were verbally and then physically attacked because of one of the participants was carrying a rainbow flag, a symbol of the LGBT community.

BELGRADE - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic received Bosnia and Herzegovina FM Elmedin Konakovic on Friday to discuss strengthening of overall cooperation between the two countries, the region's European path and other current affairs.

The Bosnian state court on Thursday found Boban Indjic guilty, as commander of the Interventions Company of the Bosnian Serb Army's Visegrad Brigade, of participating in the abductions and subsequent murders of 20 civilians who were seized from a train at Strpci station in Bosnia on February 27, 1993.

The Serbian Prosecutor's Office for War Crimes urged Belgrade Higher Court on Tuesday to convict four defendants accused of involvement in the abduction and subsequent killing of passengers from a train at Strpci station in February 1993 and give them "the maximum prison sentences".

"The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia rendered a decision, a final decision, that genocide happened here," she said.

Women in Black said that an unknown man posing as a postal worker entered the building where the peace group's office is located in Belgrade on Tuesday and poured red paint on the entrance door and on the staircase.

The trial in the case against seven former Bosnian Serb special policemen accused of involvement in the killing of some 1,300 Bosniaks from Srebrenica in an agricultural warehouse in the Bosnian village of Kravica in July 1995 was postponed again at Belgrade Higher Court on Tuesday.