SRNA News Roundup /II/ - January 3, 2024

REPUBLIKA SRPSKA

BANJALUKA, JANUARY 3 /SRNA/ - Republika Srpska President Milorad Dodik has said that Srpska is determined to create a new Republika Srpska election law that is in accordance with the Constitutions of Republika Srpska and BiH, which means the constitutional positioning of the Republic and that it does not encroach on the election of members of the BiH Presidency and members of the House of Representatives of the BiH Parliament. BANJALUKA, JANUARY 3 /SRNA/ - Speaker of the Republika Srpska National Assembly Nenad Stevandić said today in Banjaluka that on Monday, January 8, a meeting will be held with representatives of all political parties that have MPs, and the topic will be the Republika Srpska Election Law. BANJALUKA, JANUARY 3 /SRNA/ - DEMOS leader Nedeljko Čubrilović has said that Srpska is fighting for legality and constitutionality, because the Election Law is, after the Constitution, the most important act. BANJALUKA, JANUARY 3 /SRNA/ - President of the Socialist Party Petar Đokić has said that every action of the Republika Srpska government representatives will be aimed at protecting the constitutional order of BiH, which derives from the Constitution of BiH and the Dayton Peace Agreement, including the passage of the election law of Republika Srpska. BANJALUKA, JANUARY 3 /SRNA/ - President of the People’s Party of Srpska /NPS/ Darko Banjac pointed out today in Banjaluka that Republika Srpska enters this year with the aim of defending its jurisdictions within the state union of BiH, in accordance with the Constitution and the Dayton Peace Agreement. BANJALUKA, JANUARY 3 /SRNA/ - NDP president Bojan Šapurić said today in Banjaluka that Republika Srpska needs to pass its election law. BANJALUKA, JANUARY 3 /SRNA/ - Republika Srpska President Milorad Dodik has said that Republika Srpska is above everything and that it will not lose January 9 as the date of its foundation because that is a historical fact. BANJALUKA, JANUARY 3 /SRNA/ - Republika Srpska President Milorad Dodik said today that the Serbs first decided and later confirmed that January 9 is Republic Day. BANJALUKA, JANUARY 3 /SRNA/ - Republika Srpska Minister of Trade and Tourism Denis Šulić told SRNA that Srpska will celebrate January 9, Republic Day, in honor and in the name of freedom, pride and memory of all those who created it over the years. BELGRADE, JANUARY 3 /SRNA/ - On January 9, Serbs will celebrate Saint Stephen and mark the 32nd anniversary of Republika Srpska, stressing that they only want peace and respect for their rights within the framework of the Dayton Agreement, which ended the bloodshed in BiH in 1995, "Rossiyskaya Gazeta “ reports. BANJALUKA, JANUARY 3 /SRNA/ - Republika Srpska President Milorad Dodik Dodik pointed out that with the death of Sreten Vujković Srpska lost a great writer and prominent worker in the field of education, but that his work will continue to live on. BANJALUKA, JANUARY 3 /SRNA/ - The Republika Srpska Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, and Water Management paid out today BAM 486,937 in incentives for the development of agriculture and villages. DOBOJ, JANUARY 3 /SRNA/ - Head of the SNSD Caucus in the House of Representatives of the BiH Parliamentary Assembly Sanja Vulić has said that the District Public Prosecutor's Office in Doboj and prosecutor Olivera Rauković are inciting psychological violence against women, which is not surprising if one takes into account the practice of female prosecutors who, due to a lack of empathy towards women, did not blink when a woman was killed in Gradačac. BiH SARAJEVO, JANUARY 3 /SRNA/ - At a meeting with the Ambassador of the Russian Federation to BiH, Igor Kalabukhov, in Sarajevo today, Minister of Foreign Trade and Economic Relations in the Council of Ministers Staša Košarac thanked Russia for its principled position regarding the affirmation of the Dayton Agreement and international law. SARAJEVO, JANUARY 3 /SRNA/ - At a working meeting with Justice Minister Davor Bunoza, Minister of Foreign Trade and Economic Relations in the Council of Ministers Staša Košarac expressed dissatisfaction with the fact that the Council of Ministers has not yet discussed a bill on the Constitutional Court of BiH and a bill on the termination of the mandate of foreign judges in this court. SARAJEVO, JANUARY 3 /SRNA/ - BiH has taken over the one-year chair of the Western Balkans Fund /WBF/ from Albania, and during that time it will work on better visibility of the Fund. SARAJEVO, JANUARY 3 /SRNA/ - The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development /EBRD/, with the support of the EU, approved seven million euros to Unikredit Bank for lending to small and medium-sized enterprises in BiH as part of the "Go Green" program, which was developed to help domestic enterprises in the green transition and enable them to increase competitiveness. SARAJEVO, JANUARY 3 /SRNA/ - The newly appointed Board of the Central Bank of BiH has elected Jasmina Selimović as the Governor of the Bank for a mandate period of six years, the bank announced. SERBIA BELGRADE, JANUARY 3 /SRNA/ - After arriving in the Patriarchate of Peć in Kosovo and Metohija, His Holiness Serbian Patriarch Porfirije said that he would visit holy sites and monasteries in Kosovo and Metohija these days and celebrate Christmas.