Sarajevo

BELGRADE - Bosnia and Herzegovina's Ambassador to Belgrade Aleksandar Vranjes said on Wednesday he had neither brought nor handed Sarajevo's protest note to Serbia over the recent All-Serbian Assembly.

BELGRADE - Under what act does public property in Bosnia-Herzegovina belong to the country's central authorities, and not to its entities, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic asked on Tuesday in response to claims from the US embassy in Sarajevo that the conclusions adopted at a recent All-Serbian Assembly in Belgrade were an attack on the Dayton Agreement and Bosnia and Herzegovina state instit

BELGRADE - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic announced on Monday evening he would on Tuesday respond to claims from the US embassy in Sarajevo that conclusions adopted at the recent All-Serbian Assembly in Belgrade were not a defence of the Dayton Agreement but an attack on that agreement and the state institutions of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

BELGRADE - Serbia has named its new ambassadors to Riyadh, Vienna, Sarajevo and Unesco.

"Today's publication of a decree by President Aleksandar Vucic completes the procedure of appointing four Serbian ambassadors," FM Ivica Dacic said in a written statement.

BRUSSELS - European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen will be in Belgrade on Tuesday as part of a four-day visit to the Western Balkans, where she will present the details of an EU growth plan for the region, the EC announced on Friday.

She will arrive in Belgrade on Tuesday afternoon and meet with Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic and PM Ana Brnabic.

A documentary about the close ties that grew between Sarajevo rock musicians and the Irish band U2 during the Bosnian capital's 1992-1995 siege has opened the city's annual film festival, with U2 members Bono and The Edge as star guests.

BELGRADE - Serbian PM Ana Brnabic received Bosnia and Herzegovina's newly-appointed Ambassador Aleksandar Vranjes on Wednesday.

The exhibition, entitled 'My Bosnia', includes pictures that Cvetkovic took in Skelani, Bratunac, Visegrad and around Sarajevo, as well as images of people who escaped to Montenegro as refugees or ended up in Serbia as prisoners.

Cvetkovic's picture of Serbs leaving their homes in the Grbavica and Ilidza settlements of Sarajevo, March 1996. Photo: BIRN.

People gathered to lay flowers and pay their respects on Bakarevica Street in the Bistrik neighbourhood of Sarajevo on Monday, commemorating the 30th anniversary of the deaths of seven young people and children in an artillery attack.

Mersudin Secerovic, whose older brother Sinanudin was killed on June 26, 1993, said that despite the passage of time, "the wounds stay the same".

Pita fainted from shock and later, in hospital, had to listen to her daughter cry while being operated upon without anesthetic because by that time, several months after the start of the war and the siege of Sarajevo, there was a shortage of medical supplies in the city.