SRNA News Roundup /II/ March 1, 2024

REPUBLIKA SRPSKA ANTALYA, MARCH 1 /SRNA/ - The President of Republika Srpska, Milorad Dodik, said that he had discussed with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan about earlier agreements regarding the highway that is planned to connect Belgrade and Sarajevo, and assessed that there is a good solution and that a certain procedure remains to be carried out. ANTALYA, MARCH 1 /SRNA/ - The President of Republika Srpska Milorad Dodik spoke today with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan about economic cooperation and the implementation of previously started projects in Srpska. ANTALYA, MARCH 1 /SRNA/ - The President of Republika Srpska Milorad Dodik said that during today's meeting with Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Sergey Lavrov in Antalya, he expressed his gratitude for the low price of gas and pointed out the importance of continuing the gas pipeline construction project in Srpska. ANATALYA, MARCH 1 /SRNA/ - The President of Republika Srpska Milorad Dodik and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban stated tonight that joint projects in Srpska are being implemented well. ANTALYA, MARCH 1 /SRNA/ - The President of Republika Srpska Milorad Dodik welcomed the speech of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan at the Diplomatic Forum in Antalya as a realistic approach to all suffering, in which he condemned the hypocrisy of other, especially Western countries. ANTALYA, MARCH 1 /SRNA/ - The President of Republika Srpska Milorad Dodik spoke before the start of the meeting with the head of Russian diplomacy and the spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Maria Zakharova. TREBINJE, MARCH 1 /SRNA/ - The General Director of "Elektroprivreda Republike Srpske" /ERS/ Luka Petrović said that the decision of the Constitutional Court of Srpska will increase the price of electricity for the majority of citizens, and reduce it for the minority, and that this company will not have a BAM more from this court decision. BANJA LUKA, MARCH 1 /SRNA/ - The working group for considering issues in the field of veterans and disabled protection has adopted a framework program for providing support to persons suspected, accused and convicted of war crimes before the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina and other courts, said the president of the Organization of Elders of the Army of Republika Srpska Slobodan Župljanin. BiH ANTALYA, MARCH 1 /SRNA/ - Serb member of the BiH Presidency Željka Cvijanović pointed out today in Antalya that BiH must be sovereign in order to progress on the European path and decisions made by domestic authorities, not foreigners. ANTALYA, MARCH 1 /SRNA/ - Serb member of the BiH Presidency Željka Cvijanović pointed out today in Antalya that politicians in BiH should focus on economic development and the European path. ANTALYA, MARCH 1 /SRNA/ - Serb member of the BiH Presidency Željka Cvijanović said that she highly values the principled position of Russia towards BiH based on consistent respect for the Dayton Peace Accords and the Constitution of BiH. ANTALYA, MARCH 1 /SRNA/ - The President of Republika Srpska Milorad Dodik said that Christian Schmidt had no authority over the land in Jahorina, but was trying to destabilize Bosnia and Herzegovina, and that it was unacceptable to talk about initiating proceedings against the Minister of Trade and Tourism of Srpska, Denis Šulić. BANJA LUKA, FEBRUARY 1 /SRNA/ - The President of Republika Srpska Milorad Dodik said that the chairperson of the Council of Ministers, Borjana Krišto, expressed her personal views on the special military operation in Ukraine at the "Ukraine - Southeast Europe" Summit in Tirana, not the official position of BiH. SARAJEVO, MARCH 1 /SRNA/ - The Council of Ministers did not consider or approve the signing of the declaration signed by chairperson Borjana Krišto in Tirana, nor does it have the consent of the BiH Presidency, said her deputy Staša Košarac. SARAJEVO, MARCH 1 /SRNA/ - The Chairperson of the Council of Ministers, Borjana Krišto, stated that the documents discussed at the summit in Tirana, as in all previous years during BiH's participation in that event, did not have an official form that included their signing, it was announced from the Council of Ministers. SARAJEVO, MARCH 1 /SRNA/ - Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers, Staša Košarac, said that the latest resolution of the European Parliament cannot be seen as a serious and credible document, but that it represents a classic pre-election pamphlet of European parliamentarians ahead of the upcoming elections in this body. BANJA LUKA, MARCH 1 /SRNA/ - Radovan Kovačević, a delegate in the Club of Serbs in the House of Peoples of the Parliamentary Assembly of BiH, assessed that it is obvious that people in the European Parliament do not know the situation in BiH and for the umpteenth time they are calling for the imposition of sanctions against the President of Republika Srpska Milorad Dodik, which only further confirms that they do not understand at all what is happening in Bosnia and Herzegovina. BANJA LUKA, MARCH 1 /SRNA/ - The President of the Socialist Party Petar Đokić told SRNA on the occasion of the European Parliament's new call to sanction the "inflammatory and secessionist rhetoric" of the leader of Srpska Milorad Dodik and the highest officials of the Republic that, as it did not before, it will not succumb now to the pressures from foreigners that are unfounded and harm all peoples in Bosnia and Herzegovina. SARAJEVO, MARCH 1 /SRNA/ - Republika Srpska supports BiH's European path, but if it implies the loss of independence guaranteed by Dayton, then it will not exist, said Milorad Kojić, a member of the House of Representatives of the BiH Parliamentary Assembly. BANJA LUKA, MARCH 1 /SRNA/ - The Minister of Trade and Tourism of Republika Srpska, Denis Šulić, assessed that the status of BiH as a candidate for the EU would be an incentive for domestic politicians, whose agreements were undermined by part of the international community. SARAJEVO, MARCH 1 /SRNA/ - Deputy Minister of Defense in the Council of Ministers, Aleksandar Goganović, lit a candle today in the Old Church in Sarajevo's Baščaršija for the Serbian wedding party Nikola Gardović, who was killed 32 years ago, and all the Serbs who died in the past war. BIJELJINA, MARCH 1 /SRNA/ - The first of March is not a day for celebration, but a day of mourning when 32 years ago the Serbs were outvoted in an illegitimate referendum and a Serb wedding party was killed, said the president of the Bijeljina City Assembly, Aleksandar Đurđević, regarding the marking of the "Independence Day" in FBiH . BELGRADE, MARCH 1 /SRNA/ - The President of the Union of Serbs from the region, Miodrag Linta, told SRNA that today's celebrations on March 1 in the Federation of BiH /FBiH/ and Brčko District are essentially a provocation towards the Serbs and Republika Srpska because the Bosniaks have never reconciled with the truth that, despite all Western logistics, they failed to create a unitary BiH during the past decades. BRČKO, MARCH 1 /SRNA/ - The Police of the Brčko District prosecuted three persons today in accordance with the provisions of the Law on Peaceful Assembly and the Law on Arms and Ammunition, after which a convoy of vehicles with displayed war flags and lilies in a parade on the occasion of March 1, which in the part of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina is celebrated as "BiH Independence Day", was directed towards the exit from the city.