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Strasbourg, 10.03.2010 - The Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe concluded on 4 March 2010 its first special human rights meeting devoted to the supervision of the execution of the judgments of the European Court of Human Rights.

The 56 OSCE participating States appointed today Dunja Mijatovic from Bosnia and Herzegovina as the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media.

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SARAJEVO, Bosnia and Herzegovina /LONDON, United Kingdom -- About 2,500 people gathered on Friday in front of the embassies of Serbia and Great Britain -- both in the UK and Sarajevo -- to denounce the arrest of former BiH presidency member Ejup Ganic.

Belgrade, Sarajevo Bojana Barlovac, Sabina Niksic Ejup Ganic While Serbia awaits the extradition of a member of Bosnia's wartime presidency, Ejup Ganic, who was arrested on Monday, Serbs and Bosniaks are split on whether Ganic should have been detained.

Sunday, March 07, 2010 By our correspondent LAHORE: Bosnia and Herzegovina has a huge potential in a number of sectors including construction, energy, agriculture, infrastructure, textiles, tourism and fresh fruits and Pakistani businessmen can avail the opportunities by initiating joint ventures.

In The Hague, former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic has resumed his own defense in his war crimes trial for what he called Serbia's "just and holy cause" against Muslim aggression during the war in Bosnia in the 1990s.

Thousands of Bosnians took to the streets Friday to demand the release of Ejup Ganic, former president of Bosnia and Herzegovina who was arrested in Britain on war crime charge.

Under the direction of H.H. Sheikh Hamdan bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Ruler's Representative in the Western Region, Chairman of UAE Red Crescent Authority, the Emirates World Humanitarian Mobile Hospital has conducted nine open heart surgeries in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Two Requests for Batko's Extradition The Ministries of Justice of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Montenegro will request the extradition of Veselin Vlahovic, known as Batko, on the basis of investigations against him conducted in the two countries.

Vlahovic arrest The State Prosecution in Bosnia and Herzegovina will do "everything" to have Veselin Vlahovic Batko extradited from Spain, prosecution spokesperson Boris Grubesic told Balkan Insight.

Chinese President Hu Jintao on Wednesday accepted credentials presented respectively by the ambassadors to China from Barbados, Britain, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia and the Philippines.

Serbian war criminal Veselin Vlahovic was captured in Spain with a Bulgarian ID.

A former president of Bosnia accused of war crimes has been arrested at Heathrow airport as he tried to leave the country.

Sarajevo Sud BiH The defence of a man sentenced by a Croatian court in 2006 for war crimes against civilians has called on Bosnia's state court to reduce his 12-year sentence.

Sarajevo The World Bank has approved a 11 million euro loan for a social protection and employment project in Bosnia, it said in a statement on Friday.

Croatia's president, Stjepan Mesic, has left office and been replaced. Or at least, I think he has because I read nothing about it in the British, or American, press, unless it was brief news item.

The Defence says these grounds are insufficient and calls on the Court to pronounce prohibiting measures.

Recent repayment troubles in four rapidly-growing microfinance markets do not stem from the financial crisis, according to a new report by CGAP , a microfinance group based at the World Bank, but from the way that microfinance operates in fast-growth markets.