PRESS RELEASES

Sarajevo, October 30th, 2009
On October 30th, 2009, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Bosnia and Herzegovina Sven Alkalaj received Ambassador of the Czech Republic to BiH Tomas Szunyog in the latter's inaugural visit. (More...)

Sarajevo, October 30th, 2009
On October 30th, 2009, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Bosnia and Herzegovina Sven Alkalaj received Apostolic Nuncio to B&H Alessandro D’Errico. (More...)

Sarajevo, October 29th, 2009
On October 29th, 2009, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Bosnia and Herzegovina Sven Alkalaj gave introductory remarks at the opening of the Atlantic Policy Advisory Group (APAG) annual meeting of the Euro-Atlantic Partnership Council (EAPC), held on October 28th and 29th in hotel "Bistrica" at Jahorina. (More...)

Sarajevo, October 29th, 2009
On October 29th, 2009, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Bosnia and Herzegovina Sven Alkalaj received newly-appointed Ambassador of the Russian Federation to B&H Alexander Botsan-Kharchenko in the latter’s inaugural visit. (More...)

Sarajevo, October 28th, 2009
On October 28th, 2009, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Bosnia and Herzegovina Sven Alkalaj met with Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for war crimes in the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) Serge Brammertz at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of BiH. (More...)

Sarajevo, October 28th, 2009
On October 27th, 2009, on the margins of the “Sephardic Heritage in the Balkans” conference, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Bosnia and Herzegovina Sven Alkalaj met with Mayor of Toledo (Spain) Emiliano Garcia – Page Sanchez. (More...)

Sarajevo, October 28th, 2009
On October 27th, 2009, on the margins of the “Sephardic Heritage in the Balkans” conference held in Madrid, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Bosnia and Herzegovina Sven Alkalaj met with Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Spain Miguel Angel Moratinos. (More...)

Sarajevo, October 27th, 2009
On October 27th, 2009, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Bosnia and Herzegovina Ana Trisic-Babic received newly-appointed Ambassador of the Czech Republic to Bosnia and Herzegovina Tomas Szunyog in the latter’s inaugural visit. (More...)

Sarajevo, October 27th, 2009
On October 26th, 2009, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Bosnia and Herzegovina Sven Alkalaj held an introductory lecture on "Jews in the Balkans" during the first day of the conference "Sephardic Heritage in the Balkans" organized by "Casa Sefarad – Israel" and "Cervantes" Institute between October 26th and 28th, 2009 in Madrid. (More...)

Sarajevo, October 27th, 2009
On October 26th, 2009, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Bosnia and Herzegovina Sven Alkalaj received a letter from Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergey Lavrov, in which the latter extended his congratulations on the election of Bosnia and Herzegovina to a non-permanent seat at the UN Security Council for the 2010-2011 term. (More...)

Sarajevo, October 26th, 2009
According to the Instruction of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Consul General of BiH Brane Pecanac was in Azerbaijan from October 23rd to 25th where he spoke with our workers, employed in “Serbaz” company, which performs construction works in Azerbaijani cities Baku and Mingechaur. (More...)

Sarajevo, October 23rd, 2009
On October 22nd, 2009, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Bosnia and Herzegovina Sven Alkalaj received a letter from US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton congratulating him on BiH's election to a non-permanent seat at the United Nations Security Council for the 2010-2011 term. (More...)

Sarajevo, October 22nd, 2009
During a cordial and friendly conversation in Sarajevo on October 22nd, 2009, Ministers of Foreign Affairs of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Republic of Serbia Sven Alkalaj and Vuk Jeremic agreed that relations between their two countries are stable and good-neighborly both bilaterally and multilaterally. (More...)

Sarajevo, October 22nd, 2009
On October 22nd, 2009, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Bosnia and Herzegovina Sven Alkalaj received UNDP Resident Representative and UN Resident Coordinator in Bosnia and Herzegovina Christine McNab in her farewell visit. (More...)

Sarajevo, October 21st, 2009
On October 20th, 2009, during a phone conversation with Permanent Representative of Bosnia and Herzegovina to the UN Ambassador Ivan Barbalic, United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon congratulated the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Council of Ministers of Bosnia and Herzegovina our country’s election as a non-permanent member of the United Nations Security Council. (More...)

Sarajevo, October 20th, 2009
On October 20th, 2009, at the end of his official visit to Japan, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Bosnia and Herzegovina Sven Alkalaj opened a formal reception at the Embassy of BiH in Tokyo organized to mark the relocation of the Embassy into its new office space as well as the first official visit by a BiH Minister of Foreign Affairs to Japan. (More...)

Sarajevo, October 20th, 2009
On October 20th, 2009, the second day of his official visit to Japan, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Bosnia and Herzegovina Sven Alkalaj met with Hiroshi Watanabe, President and CEO of the Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC). (More...)

Sarajevo, October 20th, 2009
On the second day of his visit to Japan, October 20th, 2009, Minister of Foreign Affairs of BiH Sven Alkalaj met with Vice President of Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) Kenzo Oshima. (More...)

Sarajevo, October 20th, 2009
In Tokyo, on October 20th, 2009, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Bosnia and Herzegovina Sven Alkalaj met with Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO) Chairman Hayashi Yasuo. (More...)

Sarajevo, October 20th, 2009
On October 19th, 2009, the Embassy of B &H in Ankara, which covers the Republic of Azerbaijan, sent an official note to the Embassy of Azerbaijan in Ankara requesting detailed information on the state of B&H workers hired in Azerbaijan by an agency from Gradiska. (More...)

Sarajevo, October 20th, 2009
On the second day of his visit to Japan, October 20th, 2009, Minister of Foreign Affairs of BiH Sven Alkalaj was in Hiroshima where he met with Mayor Tadatoshi Akiba. (More...)

Sarajevo, October 20th, 2009
On October 20th, 2009, Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Bosnia and Herzegovina Adnan Hadzikapetanovic received Ambassador of the Czech Republic to B&H Tomas Szunyog in the latter’s inaugural visit. (More...)

Sarajevo, October 19th, 2009
On the first day of his official visit to Japan, October 19th, 2009, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Bosnia and Herzegovina Sven Alkalaj met with speaker of the House of Representatives of Japanese Parliament Takahiro Yokomichi. (More...)

Sarajevo, October 19th, 2009
On October 19th, 2009, the first day of his official visit to Japan, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Bosnia and Herzegovina Sven Alkalaj met with Minister for Foreign Affairs of Japan Katsuya Okada. (More...)

Sarajevo, October 19th, 2009
On October 19th, 2009, during his official visit to Japan Minister of Foreign Affairs of Bosnia and Herzegovina Sven Alkalaj met with President of MEIJI University Hiromi Naya. (More...)

Sarajevo, October 19th, 2009
On October 19th, 2009, as part of his official visit to Japan, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Bosnia and Herzegovina Sven Alkalaj visited the Foreign Correspondences’ Club of Japan  (FCCJ) and held a lecture. (More...)

Sarajevo, October 19th, 2009
As part of his official visit to Japan, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Bosnia and Herzegovina Sven Alkalaj met with Japan’s Senior Vice-Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Akira Gunji on October 19th, 2009. (More...)

Sarajevo, October 19th, 2009
Today, on October 19th 2009, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Bosnia and Herzegovina received an e-mail from one of the B &H workers hired to do construction work in Azerbaijan informing about the situation of great number of B&H citizens who were sent to work to this country by a joint B&H-Dutch agency. (More...)

Sarajevo, October 16th, 2009
In the first round of voting which was held on Thursday, by 183 votes, the United Nations General Assembly elected Bosnia and Herzegovina one of the five new non-permanent members of the Security Council for the 2010-2011 term. (More...)

Sarajevo, October 14th, 2009
The UN General Assembly is expected to elect five new non-permanent members of the UN Security Council on October 15th, 2009. (More...)

Sarajevo, October 13th, 2009
In Sarajevo on October 13th, 2009, Branimir Mandic, Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs of Bosnia and Herzegovina for Multilateral Affairs, headed the delegation of the Council of Ministers of BiH at the final bilateral talks on development cooperation in 2009 with the delegation of the Government of the Federal Republic of Germany. (More...)

Sarajevo, October 10th, 2009
Today, on October 10th, 2009, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Bosnia and Herzegovina Sven Alkalaj, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Turkey Ahmet Davutoglu, and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Serbia Vuk Jeremic held a trilateral meeting on the margins of the Informal Meeting of Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the SEECP in Istanbul. (More...)

Sarajevo, October 9th, 2009
Minister of Foreign Affairs of Bosnia and Herzegovina Sven Alkalaj participates in an informal meeting of foreign ministers of the South-East European Cooperation Process (SEECP), which is being held on October 9th and October 10th, 2009 in Istanbul. (More...)

Sarajevo, October 9th, 2009
On October 9th, 2009, on the margins of the Informal Meeting of Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the South East European Cooperation Process (SEECP) in Istanbul, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Bosnia and Herzegovina Sven Alkalaj met with Natalia Gherman, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and European Integration of the Republic of Moldova. (More...)

Sarajevo, October 8th, 2009
On October 8th, 2009, Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Bosnia and Herzegovina Adnan Hadzikapetanovic received State Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Macedonia Abdulkadar Memedi. (More...)

Sarajevo, October 7th, 2009
The Embassy of B&H in Berlin informed the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of B&H about discussions and activities conducted by the Parliamentary Group of the Bundestag for Bosnia and Herzegovina regarding visa liberalization for B&H citizens.  (More...)

Sarajevo, October 7th, 2009
On October 7th, 2009, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Bosnia and Herzegovina Sven Alkalaj received newly-appointed Ambassador of the Kingdom of Denmark in B&H Kirsten Rosenvold Geelan in her inaugural visit. (More...)

Sarajevo, October 7th, 2009
Head of Diplomatic Protocol Department at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Bosnia and Herzegovina Dragana Tadic on October 7th, 2009, received newly appointed non-resident Ambassador of Canada to Bosnia and Herzegovina Pierre Guimond resident in Budapestwho presented copies of credentials on this occasion. (More...)

Sarajevo, October 6th, 2009
On October 6th, 2009, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Bosnia and Herzegovina Sven Alkalaj participated in the activities of the informal meeting of ministers of foreign affairs of the Visegrad Group  (V4) member states and Western Balkans countries, at the invitation of Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Hungary Peter Balazs. (More...)

Sarajevo, October 5th, 2009
On October 5th, 2009, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Bosnia and Herzegovina Sven Alkalaj received a delegation of the Islamic Republic of Iran-BiH Parliamentary Friendship Group, headed by the Group’s President Soleyman Ja’farzadeh.  (More...)

Sarajevo, October 5th, 2009
On October 5th, 2009, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Bosnia and Herzegovina Sven Alkalaj received representatives of the Council of Europe’s School of Political Studies, headed by School Coordinator Francois Friederich. (More...)

Sarajevo, October 5th, 2009
On October 5th, 2009, Chief of the Diplomatic Protocol Department in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Bosnia and Herzegovina Dragana Tadic received newly-appointed Ambassador of the Czech Republic in Bosnia and Herzegovina Tomas Szunyog. (More...)

Sarajevo, October 2nd, 2009
Today, on October 2nd, 2009, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Bosnia and Herzegovina Sven Alkalaj is in Brussels as a member of the BiH delegation headed by Chairman of the Presidency of BiH Zeljko Komsic. (More...)

Sarajevo, October 1st, 2009
On October 1st, 2009, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Bosnia and Herzegovina Sven Alkalaj received Tanja Fajon, Slovenian Member of the European Parliament and Rapporteur of the EP’s Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE). (More...)

Sarajevo, October 1st, 2009
On September 30th, 2009, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Bosnia and Herzegovina Sven Alkalaj received Ambassador of the Republic of Turkey to Bosnia and Herzegovina Vefahan Ocak in the latter’s inaugural visit. (More...)

Press Releasses September 2009