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ROME - The tensions that have returned to the Western Balkans are at the most dangerous level since the end of the wars of the 1990s, Serbian PM Aleksandar Vucic has told Italy's La Repubblica, noting that he had been warning German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Italian PM Matteo Renzi and other European officials of this for months.

ROME - The tensions that have returned to the Western Balkans are at the most dangerous level since the end of the wars of the 1990s, Serbian PM Aleksandar Vucic has told Italy's La Repubblica, noting that he had been warning German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Italian PM Matteo Renzi and other European officials of this for months.

The Bosnian diaspora represents an untapped resource for the country's economic development but its government so far has not found a way to exploit their potential.

Bosnians possess a worrying quantity of firearms, which potentially pose a threat to the country's security, a Bosnian arms expert told BIRN on Tuesday.

"There are at least 750,000 illegal firearms in Bosnia ... which basically means that statistically at least 20 per cent of Bosnian residents are armed," Armin Krzalic, director of the Center for Security Studies in Sarajevo, said.

Bosnian authorities are due to approve an agreement or concordat with Bosnia's Islamic Community, which will regulate and define the relationship between the Bosnian state and the Muslim community, the largest faith group in the country.

Acting Serbian Police Director Vladimir Rebic said on Tuesday there are some 1,000 migrants currently "stuck" in the country.

There are as many on the border with Macedonia, he revealed.

The Syrian citizen Imad Al-Husin better known as Abu Hamza on Thursday told the TV network Aljazeera Balkans that he may file a lawsuit against the Bosnian authorities for keeping him for more than seven years in detention, on suspicion that he represented a threat to national security.

"I challenge the Bosnian authorities to hold a fair trial," Al-Husin told Aljazeera.

We spent the last two days of 2015 joining Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu's trip to Belgrade, Serbia's capital, as a group of journalists. 

Bosnian Croat parties have joined their counterparts in the country's Serb-led entity Republika Srpksa in calling for the immediate reform of the Constitutional Court.

They are calling for the three foreign judges on the nine-member court to be removed permanently, saying that it gives the international community too much influence over constitutional rulings.

Hundreds of Kosovars in the southern town of Prizren joined the celebration of the Justice and Development (AK) party's victory on Sunday, some carrying banners with Erdogan's picture and chanting his party's slogans, others driving around waving Turkish flags.