Croatian President Ivo Josipović supported the idea to create a Regional Fact-Finding Commission on the Victims of Wars in Former Yugoslavia RECOM.

This text doesn’t intend to call to people to abstain from voting. Elections are not a farce always and everywhere. In fact, the time an place are of no importance. It is who votes that counts. When a person that is the Change in itself votes, something truly changes. That is not a matter of casting a vote once every four years. Rather, it is about being aware about the choices we make every minute of our lives.

President of Serbia Boris Tadić and Ombudsman Saša Janković visited the village of Jabuka, near Pančevo on August 2, St. Elijah Day, the patron-saint day in Jabuka, where they appealed the citizens for more tolerance after the recent ethnic violence in the village.

Today, July 30, at 12:00 hours, street actions will be organized in eleven cities and towns in BIH (Sarajevo, Banja Luka, Bihać, Bijeljina, Bosansko Grahovo, Bratunac, Brčko, Livno, Mostar, Tuzla i Zenica), to instruct the citizens to think well before they cast their vote in the coming Parliamentary Elections and read the candidates' lists well.

The Centre for Development of Civil Society (CDCS) demand from the Provincial Secretariat for Regulations, Administration and National Minorities of Vojvodina to stop ignoring the recommendations of Vojvodina Ombudsman to put an end to the discrimination of churches of smaller religious communities and allow them equal opportunities in competitions for funding from the Provincial Budget.

After a several hours long extraordinary session yesterday, July 20, Zagreb City Assembly adopted conclusions in seven points demanding the lift the blockade of Gundulićeva Street, immediate stop of all works in Varšavska Street, and also demanded the resignation of Mayor Milan Bandić.

Croatian President Ivo Josipović met, under the auspices of his official visit to Serbia, with the representatives of several NGOs on July 19, at the Humanitarian Law Centre in Belgrade, and discussed normalization of relations and life and new strategies and policies towards the past and the future of post-Yugoslav countries.