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The Balkans Today: 1st - 5th August 2016
Our team brings you live updates of the most important events and developments in the Balkans as they happen.
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Serbia’s foreign ministry has sent two protest notes to the Croatian embassy in Belgrade, one of them condemning the recent quashing of Croatian general Branimir Glavas’s conviction for war crimes against Serb civilians.Serbia said this was incomprehensible from "both a legal and a moral point of view" and was anti-Serb.The second note was sparked by the instalment of a statue of Croatian soldier Miro Baresic, who was killed during the war in 1991, in the village of Drage.Baresic killed a Yugoslav ambassador in Stockholm in 1971 and Serbia called on Croatia to distance itself from "the praising of a convicted terrorist" and remove what it called a "shameful monument".
Branimir Glavas. Photo: Beta -
The council within the Constitutional Court of Bosnia’s Serb-dominated entity, Republika Srpska, concerning the protection of the interests of the three constitutive peoples of Bosnia, decided on Monday to accept a request from the Bosniak delegates of the Council of Peoples to safeguard the interests of Bosniaks in the upcoming referendum on the entity’s national holiday, Al Jazeera Balkans reported.The Council for protection of vital national interest also agreed with the decision of Republika Srpska’s assembly to publish the results of the 2013 census autonomously, and will take its final decision on both requests within 30 days.Last week, Bosniak politicians in Republika Srpska warned that the procedure to protect the vital interests of Bosniaks in the entity is likely to fail, and that the international community should take steps to avoid the referendum, planned for September 25.
Photo: Anadolu.
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