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SRNA News Roundup /II/- April 26, 2024

REPUBLIKA SRPSKA TESLIĆ, APRIL 26 /SRNA/ - Republika Srpska President Milorad Dodik says the postponement of the UN General Assembly session on the resolution on Srebrenica indicates to obvious crisis of proponents in this regard and that the Serb political representatives' efforts to explain that it could be a bigger problem than any solution are successful. WASHINGTON, APRIL 26 /SRNA/ - Former assistant in the US Congress, Gregory Tosi, pointed out that the proposed draft resolution on Srebrenica abuses the term genocide and UN principles, and threatens the fragile stability of BiH. BELGRADE, APRIL 26 /SRNA/ - Israeli Ambassador to Serbia, Yahel Vilan, says genocide did not happen in Srebrenica and that the world should trust the authorities who really know it, such as Efraim Zuroff, Yehuda Bauer or Gideon Greif. TESLIĆ, APRIL 26 /SRNA/ - The President of Republika Srpska Milorad Dodik said that Srpska and Serbia are dedicatedly preparing the Serbian Assembly, which will be held, if not on Easter, then as soon as the conditions are right. BANJA LUKA, APRIL 26 /SRNA/ - Republika Srpska has the right to choose countries to develop good relations with, and it is logical that the choice will be Russia and China, which have shown countless times that they are ready to cooperate with the entire BiH, respecting its Dayton-based order without conditioning, imposition and interference in internal affairs, which cannot be said for most EU countries, Great Britain and the USA, which set new conditions every now and then, announced the Office of Republika Srpska President. BANJA LUKA, APRIL 26 /SRNA/ - Director of the Republika Srpska Socio-Political Research Center Dušan Pavlović told SRNA that Germany is responsible for the suffering of tens of millions of victims in the Second World War and that through the resolution on Srebrenica in the UN, which postponed a vote in the General Assembly, wants to preserve the reputation of a country that has allegedly come to terms with its past. BANJALUKA, APRIL 26 /SRNA/ - Directors of the Republika Srpska Police Siniša Kostrešević and the Federal Police Administration of Austria Michael Takacs assessed that the operational cooperation of the two polices is successful and that joint activities should be strengthened since an increased influx of migrants is expected. BiH SARAJEVO, APRIL 26 /SRNA/ - At the behest of the US ambassador to BiH, Michael Murphy, Troika representatives are creating an atmosphere against Republika Srpska and President Milorad Dodik on a daily basis, which will backfire on them, because BiH will be the victim, assessed Council of Ministers Deputy Chairman, Staša Košarac. MOSTAR, APRIL 26 /SRNA/ - Council of Ministers Chairperson, Borjana Krišto, announced that the Council will send the reform plan to the European Commission no later than Monday, April 29, which is a prerequisite for withdrawing funds from the Instrument for Reforms and Growth of the Western Balkans. SARAJEVO, APRIL 26 /SRNA/ - Deputy Chairman of the Joint Commission for European Integration of the BiH Parliamentary Assembly, Miroslav Vujičić, and member of the Commission Snježana Novaković Bursać today in Sarajevo at a meeting with members of the Friendship Group of the Parliament of Austria pointed out the problems caused by the intervention of foreign factors in BiH and called for respect for the Constitution, internal structure and jurisdiction, especially in the process of European integration. MOSTAR, APRIL 26 /SRNA/ - The Croat National Assembly /HNS/ today called on the political leaders in BiH to continue dialogue and find solutions locally to outstanding issues in order to maintain positive momentum on the European path and BiH to continue making significant progress. SARAJEVO, APRIL 26 /SRNA/ - The High Judicial and Prosecutorial Council /HJPC/ of BiH announced that the inappropriate statement of the Minister of Foreign Affairs in the Council of Ministers Elvedin Konaković on the work of judicial institutions can be considered as an attempt to put pressure on judiciary work. SARAJEVO, APRIL 26 /SRNA/ - Five judges and prosecutors of the Court and Prosecutor's Office of BiH received nearly BAM 822,000 in salaries from the end of 2016 to the end of January this year during their long-term suspensions, according to BIRN data. REGION PODGORICA, APRIL 26 /SRNA/ - Today, the Constitutional Court of Montenegro rejected proposals to determine the unconstitutionality and illegality of the Basic Agreement signed between the state and the Serbian Orthodox Church /SOC/, as well as the Law on Amendments to the Law on Freedom of Religion or Belief and Legal Position of Religious Communities.