SRNA News Roundup /I/ - July 2, 2024

REPUBLIKA SRPSKA BANJA LUKA, JULY 2 /SRNA/ - The Republika Srpska National Assembly has begun a session where the deputies should review the Declaration protecting national, political rights and joint fture of the Serb People, adopted by the Pan-Serbian Parliament. BANJA LUKA, JULY 2 /SRNA/ - The Republic of Serbia - Republika Srpska Parliamentary Forum, which consists of deputies from the national assemblies of Srpska and Serbia, was constituted today in Banja Luka. EAST SARAJEVO, JULY 2 /SRNA/ - The Bijeljina District Public Prosecutor's Office took the first step towards proving the truth by forming a case related to the CIPS list of people who are said to be alive, but registered as victims killed in Srebrenica, said Branimir Kojić, the speaker of the Assembly of the Republika Srpska Organisation of Families of Captured, Killed Soldiers and Missing Civilians. BANJA LUKA, JULY 2 /SRNA/ - Acting Director of the Republika Srpska Research Centre of War, War Crimes and Tracing Missing Persons Viktor Nuždić told SRNA that, despite all the harassment of people from Republika Srpska who were pointing to omissions in relation to data on Bosniak victims from Srebrenica, Srpska will not give up the search for the truth in order to expose all manipulations. EAST SARAJEVO, JULY 2 /SRNA/ - SNSD MP in the House of Representatives of the Parliamentary Assembly of BiH, Milorad Kojić, tells SRNA that the Bijeljina District Public Prosecutor's Office should conduct an investigation into people who are said to be alive, but are registered as victims killed in Srebrenica, and then make a prosecutorial decision on the basis of the investigation in order to prosecute those responsible for lies and manipulations. BANJA LUKA, JULY 2 /SRNA/ - Serbian university professor, publicist, political advisor, analyst and historian Srđa Trifković, who was awarded the Order of Njegoš by the President of Republika Srpska on the occasion of St, Vitus Day, tells SRNA that it is a great honour to receive a decoration of the highest degree, but that it is a special pleasure that this award bears the name of a unique Serbian great. KOZARSKA DUBICA, JULY 2 /SRNA/ - The mayor of Kozarska Dubica municipality, Radenko Reljić, said that the municipality was hit by a terrible storm that even the oldest citizens do not remember, and that emergency services are on the ground trying to repair the damage, which is measured in hundreds of thousands BAM. BiH SARAJEVO, JULY 2 /SRNA/ - A meeting of the Informal Ministerial Council of the Energy Community should be held tomorrow in Banja Luka, which will be chaired by Deputy Chairperson of the Council of Ministers Staša Košarac and Deputy Director General of the European Commission's Directorate for Energy, Mechthild Wörsdörfer. Košarac told SRNA that he insisted that the meeting of the Informal Ministerial Council of the Energy Community be held in Banja Luka and that Republika Srpska host such a meeting for the first time, since BiH took over the presidency of the Energy Community in December last year. BANJA LUKA, JULY 2 /SRNA/ - Bojan Šolaja of the International - Security Studies Centre in Banja Luka assessed that Hungary, after Prime Minister Viktor Orban took over the EU presidency, is gaining the capacity to direct some issues more directly and put them on the agenda, which would in a certain sense, have a positive effect on BiH and Republika Srpska. SARAJEVO, JULY 2 /SRNA/ - Peace, stability and prosperity for all its citizens are the key commitment of BiH, Deputy Minister of Defence in the Council of Ministers Aleksandar Goganović pointed out today at a meeting with the military attaché of the Russian Federation in BiH, Ilya Skrebnev. BANJA LUKA, JULY 2 /SRNA/ - SNSD MP in the National Assembly of Republika Srpska, Srđan Mazalica, tells SRNA that the Central Electoral Commission /CEC/ BiH, by all accounts, falsified the drawing of lots for the election of the fifth deputy in the House of Peoples of the BiH Parliamentary Assembly Bosnia and Herzegovina, making the process of elections and democracy meaningless in BiH, the most unfortunate is that people from Srpska participate in all this. BANJALUKA, JULY 2 /SRNA/ - The dean of the Faculty of Political Sciences in Banja Luka, Ranka Perić Romić, tells SRNA the original goal of the Central Election Commission's draw for the fifth deputy in the House of Peoples of the BiH Parliamentary Assembly was to create legal uncertainty, adding that the names of the deputies were defined when the Republika Srpska National Assembly conducted the elections and the competent commission confirmed the results. SARAJEVO, JULY 2 /SRNA/ - The PDP did not get anything by drawing lots in the Central Election Commission, except the salary for Nenad Vuković, but with that act they lost the elections in Banja Luka, buried all Draško Stanivuković’s chances, as well as the ambitions of Jelena Trivić, who is their offshoot for the sake of one salary and a lot of vanity, said political analyst Željko Avramović. EAST SARAJEVO, JULY 2 /SRNA/ - SDS Presidency member Aleksandra Pandurević told PDP General Secretary Nenad Vuković, who was selected as the fifth deputy in the House of Peoples of the BiH Parliamentary Assembly by drawing lots in the Central Election Commission of BiH, to first read Rules of Procedure of the Parliamentary Assembly of BIh and the Law on the Council of Ministers before talking about the replacements and the new Council of Ministers. VIŠEGRAD, JULY 2 /SRNA/ - The concept of a political nation has been around since the Kalaj regime, while today there is an attempt to create an artificial political nation in BiH on the basis of the Muslim or Bosniak people as the bearer of sovereignty, said a professor at the Faculty of Law in Kragujevac, Zoran Čvorović, at the Andrić Institute in Andrićgrad, where the scientific conference "Covenant Nations in World History, Serbs at the Turn of the Epoch" was organised. SERBIA BELGRADE, JULY 2 /SRNA/ - Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić, in today's conversation with the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, Alexander Grushko, once again thanked Russia for its support to Serbia regarding the Resolution on Srebrenica in the UN. BELGRADE, JULY 2 /SRNA/ - Igor Despotović, who is suspected of being in contact with Miloš Žujović, who wounded a gendarme with a crossbow outside the Embassy of Israel in Belgrade, was ordered into custody for up to one month. The suspect of terrorist association in connection with the attack on the gendarmes outside the Israeli Embassy in Belgrade defended himself by remaining silent during the hearing at the Prosecutor's Office for Organised Crime. REGION BELGRADE, JULY 2 /SRNA/ - The election of Ivan Stoilković as Deputy Prime Minister is a great victory for the Serb people in North Macedonia, noted historian Čedomir Antić.