SRNA News Roundup /I/- January 16, 2024

REPUBLIKA SRPSKA

BANJALUKA, JANUARY 16 /SRNA/ - The Minister of Transport and Communications of Republika Srpska Nedeljko Čubrilović pointed out that the construction of the Bijeljina-Sokolac expressway is of strategic importance and that the development of the conceptual project, which is the basis for the development of the subdivision plan and further implementation, will start. BANJALUKA, JANUARY 16 /SRNA/ - Representatives of the Veterinary Department of the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Water Management of Republika Srpska together with the Republic Administration for Inspection Affairs participated in the introductory meeting with the inspectors of the General Directorate for Health and Food Safety of the European Commission, who are visiting BiH in order to determine the fulfillment of the conditions for the export of chicken meat, the Ministry pointed out. SKELANI, JANUARY 16 /SRNA/ - At the Central memorial in Skelani near Srebrenica, a memorial service was held for 305 Serb victims of this place and the surrounding villages in the past war, 69 of whom were killed today in 1993. EAST SARAJEVO, JANUARY 16 /SRNA/ - The Speaker of the Assembly of the Republic Organization of Families of Captured and Killed Soldiers and Missing Civilians Branimir Kojić assessed that the massacre of Serbs in Skelani today in 1993 was a "textbook example of genocide", which should be loudly and clearly stated in each and every place, because the Serb people have no right to remain silent about it in order not to suffer the same fate. BANJALUKA, JANUARY 16 /SRNA/ - Head of the Organisation of Senior Officers of the Republika Srpska Army /RSA/ Slobodan Župljanin believes that Serbs, as holders of tenancy rights in the Federation of BiH /FBiH/, will find it difficult to provide legal protection on their own and individually, which is why it is necessary to actively involve Republika Srpska institutions in solving this problem. BELGRADE, JANUARY 16 /SRNA/ - General Ratko Mladić, who underwent surgery on January 8 in a Dutch hospital and had a pacemaker implanted, told his family that he feels better, and a date of four doctors from Banjaluka visitting him is expected, his son Darko Mladić told SRNA. BANJALUKA, JANUARY 16 /SRNA/ - In the next 10 days, a reply should be sent from The Hague to the request to approve the team of doctors of the University Clinical Centre of Republika Srpska to examine General Ratko Mladić, UCC General Director Vlado Đajić told SRNA. TREBINJE, JANUARY 16 /SRNA/ - The best athlete of Republika Srpska, judoka Božidar Vučurević, told SRNA that he is proud of the Medal of Merit for the People, which was awarded to him by the President of Srpska Milorad Dodik on the occasion of Republic Day, and expressed his satisfaction that his work and effort were recognised. PALE, JANUARY 16 /SRNA/ - It is a day of mourning in Pale and in East Ols Town due to the death of an eight-year-old child and his mother in a fire. BiH BANJALUKA, JANUARY 16 /SRNA/ - The President of the Academy of Sciences and Arts of Republika Srpska Rajko Kuzmanović said that the trial in the case against the President of Republika Srpska Milorad Dodik and the acting director of the Official Gazette Miloš Lukić shows that the judiciary at the BiH level is not functioning and that it is not doing its job in a certain way. BANJALUKA, JANUARY 16 /SRNA/ - The Honorary Head of the Jasenovac-Donja Gradina Association, Vladimir Lukić, assessed that truth and arguments in the court process against the President of Srpska, Milorad Dodik are completely on the side of Republika Srpska. SARAJEVO, JANUARY 16 /SRNA/ - Speaker of the House of Representatives of the Parliamentary Assembly of BiH, Marinko Čavara, said that the constitutional position of the peoples and entities in BiH should be accepted, which will create conditions for easier resolution of problems in the functioning of the government. SARAJEVO, JANUARY 16 /SRNA/ - The Minister of Foreign Trade and Economic Relations in the Council of Ministers Staša Košarac spoke today in Sarajevo with the Minister of Agriculture, Water Management and Forestry of the Federation of BiH /FBiH/ Kemal Hrnjić about several topics important for the BiH market, as well as the importance of reform processes and compliance with EU regulations. SARAJEVO, JANUARY 16 /SRNA/ - The head of the EU Delegation to BiH, Johann Sattler, spoke today with the head of the Central Election Commission /CEC/ of BiH, Irena Hadžiabdić, about the organization of local elections in BiH that will be held this year. SERBIA BELGRADE, JANUARY 16 /SRNA/ - A commemoration on the occasion of six years since the murder of the leader of the Civic Initiative "Freedom, Democracy and Justice" Oliver Ivanović was held this morning in the Church of Saint Sava in Belgrade, which was attended by Serbian Prime Minister Ana Brnabić and Defense Minister Miloš Vučević. BELGRADE, JANUARY 16 /SRNA/ - Today marks the sixth year since the murder of the leader of the Civic Initiative Freedom, Democracy, Justice, Oliver Ivanović; the perpetrators and those who ordered the murder are still unknown. BELGRADE, JANUARY 15 /SRNA/ - Ambassador of Russia in Belgrade Alexander Botsan-Kharchenko has said this evening that Russia and Serbia cooperate comprehensively with no malignant influence in that cooperation, as the West comments, but that there is cooperation - both cultural and economic. BELGRADE, JANUARY 15 /SRNA/ - European MPs voted today to place the discussion on the situation in Serbia after the elections on the agenda of January 17 plenary session of the European Parliament. BELGRADE, JANUARY 15 /SRNA/ - The head of the NATO Liaison Office in Belgrade, Giampiero Romano, said today that NATO has nothing to do with the sale of arms to self-declared Kosovo, and that the Alliance does not support the so-called Kosovo Security Forces /KSF/. BELGRADE, JANUARY 16 /SRNA/ - His Holiness Patriarch Porfirije of Serbia stated that the Law on Gender Equality divides Serb society and that the goal is that the conclusions of today's scientific meeting where this issue is discussed be a sound basis for social dialogue with the authorities, pointing to a solution acceptable to all. BELGRADE, JANUARY 16 /SRNA/ - Famous film director Emir Kusturica pointed out that "Kustendorf" is a free film festival, attended by people from all over the world, without the mortgage of political ideology and ideological poisoning.