SRNA News Roundup /I/ - October 15, 2024

REPUBLIKA SRPSKA BANJA LUKA, OCTOBER 15 /SRNA/ - The trial of Republika Srpska President Milorad Dodik and Acting Director of the Officia Gazette Miloš Lukić will resume before the Court of BiH tomorrow, defence attorney Goran Bubić told SRNA today. BANJA LUKA, OCTOBER 15 /SRNA/ - BRICS represents an alternative to the old world that is in the phase of descending from the historical and world stage, which is why it is important that Srpska recognizes its friends, partners and allies in the world that is being built, Minister of Scientific and Technological Development and Higher Education Željko Budimir told SRNA. BANJA LUKA, OCTOBER 15 /SRNA/ - Today, the Republika Srpska Ministry of Finance will pay BAM 46 million for social benefits to beneficiaries in Srpska and monthly allowances for beneficiaries of veterans and disabled persons' rights. BANJA LUKA, OCTOBER 15 /SRNA/ - The Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Water Management of Republika Srpska paid out BAM 500,000 today through the Agricultural Payments Agency for a measure of support to the public company Anti-Hail Prevention of Srpska. BANJA LUKA, OCTOBER 15 /SRNA/ - Director of Anti-Hail Prevention of Republika Srpska, Tihomir Dejanović, told SRNA that BAM 500,000 paid through the Agricultural Payments Agency, will be used for the purchase of anti-hail missiles and for the settlement of loan obligations for the modernization of the hail protection system. BANJALUKA, OCTOBER 15 /SRNA/ - In the premises of the Republic Secretariat for Displaced Persons and Migration, five contracts on co-financing of infrastructure projects in local communities in Republika Srpska were signed today, with a total value of BAM 20,000. EAST SARAJEVO, OCTOBER 15 /SRNA/ - Mayor of East Sarajevo LJubiša Ćosić talked today with the delegation of the Chinese city of Cangzhou about the next steps in cooperation between the two cities, and in the first part, a list of products that would go from East Sarajevo to Cangzhou will be defined. BANJA LUKA, OCTOBER 15 /SRNA/ - Investments realized in Republika Srpska in fixed assets viewed according to the technical structure last year amounted to BAM 2.62 billion and are 14.9 percent higher than in 2022, read the data of the Republic Institute of Statistics. BANJA LUKA, OCTOBER 15 /SRNA/ - The increased number of illegal migrants indicates increased risks and therefore it is necessary to know where they enter the country, who helps them and why, security expert DŽevad Galijašević told SRNA. BANJA LUKA, OCTOBER 15 /SRNA/ - The participants of the First Assembly of Geodesists of Serbia and Srpska adopted a joint declaration that more clearly defines the promotion of sustainable development and support for global goals. BANJA LUKA, OCTOBER 15 /SRNA/ - Chairman of the Oil and Oil Derivatives Trade Group of Republika Srpska Chamber of Commerce, Đorđe Savić, said that this week the price of fuel at gas stations in Srpska will increase by five pfennigs per liter. BANJA LUKA, OCTOBER 15 /SRNA/ - Peer violence is most dominant in elementary school age and most often happens in the school environment, i.e. classrooms, school yard, where children should be the safest, Gordana Rajić, ombudsman for children of Republika Srpska, told SRNA. BANJA LUKA, OCTOBER 15 /SRNA/ - The director of the Down Syndrome Centre Banja Luka, Zoran Jelić, and the president of the Rare Diseases National Association /RDNA/, Marija Mitrović, signed a cooperation agreement in Belgrade. PALE, OCTOBER 14 /SRNA/ - The four-day Film Campus began tonight in Pale with the screening of the film "Bauk" about the NATO bombing of Serbia in March 1999, directed by Goran Radovanović. BiH SARAJEVO, OCTOBER 15 /SRNA/ - The Chairman of the House of Peoples of the BiH Parliamentary Assembly, Dragan Čović, announced that the continuation of the interrupted session will be held on October 29, which will practically end the blockade of this House. SARAJEVO, OCTOBER 15 /SRNA/ - The meeting of the leaders of the political parties that make up the parliamentary majority at the BiH level will be held on Monday, October 21, announced HDZ BiH Leader Dragan Čović. SARAJEVO, OCTOBER 15 /SRNA/ - The deputy of the Serb People Caucus in the House of Peoples of the BiH Parliamentary Assembly Želimir Nešković has withdrawn the bill amending the Law on BiH Constitutional Court, which he submitted to the parliamentary procedure seven months ago. BANJA LUKA, OCTOBER 15 /SRNA/ - Radovan Kovačević, a deputy in the Serb People Caucus in the House of Peoples of the BiH Parliamentary Assembly, said that delegate Želimir Nešković falsely and miserably accuses the institutions of Republika Srpska in order to avoid explaining on whose orders he withdrew the bill amending the Law on Constitutional Court of BiH. BANJA LUKA, OCTOBER 15 /SRNA/ - Radovan Kovačević, a deputy in the Serb People Caucus in the House of Peoples of the BiH Parliamentary Assembly, asked how it is possible that every external request to BiH, ever since the signing of the Dayton Peace Agreement, has always been aimed at the centralization of BiH? DUBAI, OCTOBER 15 /SRNA/ - The Minister of Transport and Communications in the Council of Ministers, Edin Forto, said that BiH must skip everything that the countries in the region and the EU have done in the field of digitization and immediately start research in artificial intligence fiels and IT development projects. SARAJEVO, OCTOBER 15 /SRNA/ - Minister of Security in the Council of Ministers Nenad Nešić says the EU countries will benefit the most from the agreement between BiH and the European Border and Coast Guard Agency /FRONTEX/, because they want to prevent the arrival of migrants to their territory. SARAJEVO, OCTOBER 15 /SRNA/ - The Minister of Security in the Council of Ministers, Nenad Nešić, said that if the director of the Federal Police Administration /FPA/ Vahidin Munjić was not approved by Europol to attend the Convention of Police Chiefs of the organization members, then the common focal point and cooperation with Europol is called into question.. SARAJEVO, OCTOBER 15 /SRNA/ - The CEFTA agreements are a revolutionary achievement that will enable the successful implementation of the current Action Plan for a common regional market, each of the agreements brings a number of concrete benefits for citizens and the economy, it was pointed out at the summit on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the Berlin Process. SARAJEVO, OCTOBER 15 /SRNA/ - Croatian Minister of Foreign and European Affairs Gordan Grlić Radman expressed the expectation that political forces in BiH will focus on the European path and the inevitable political and social reforms associated with that path after the local elections. FEDERATION OF BiH SARAJEVO, OCTOBER 15 /SRNA/ - HDZ BiH Leader Dragan Čović expects that the partners in the government in the Federation of BiH /FBiH/ will come to a solution very soon regarding the "South Interconnection" project. SARAJEVO, OCTOBER 15 /SRNA/ - In the area of the municipality of Konjic, the search continues for one person missing in the floods and landslides that hit this municipality last week, the Federal Administration of Civil Protection announced. DRVAR, OCTOBER 15 /SRNA/ - The Mayor of Drvar, Dušica Runić, made a decision to end the state of natural disaster, which was declared due to heavy rainfall, torrents and landslides, residents SARAJEVO, OCTOBER 14 /SRNA/ - A minor student of a Sarajevo high school was arrested this evening on suspicion of falsely reporting dozens of times about planted bombs in schools. SERBIA BELGRADE, OCTOBER 15 /SRNA/ - Trucks with goods produced in Serbia are still waiting at the administrative crossing of Merdare in a line that stretches for three kilometers because detailed manual checks are carried out at the terminal under the control of the authorities of the self-proclaimed Kosovo. REGION PODGORICA, OCTOBER 15 /SRNA/ - Montenegro has 623,633 inhabitants, of which 32.93 percent declared themselves Serbs, 41.12 Montenegrins, while 43.52 percent speak Serbian, according to the results of last year's population census. BIJELJINA, OCTOBER 15 /SRNA/ - Croatian academic Josip Pečarić published a book about the Croatian musician Marko Perković Thompson, who has songs in his repertoire glorifying the Ustasha Independent State of Croatia, and called him "the greatest living Croat", and believes that the Ustasha greeting "For Homeland-Ready!” must be declared official. BELGRADE, OCTOBER 15 /SRNA/ - The bodies of Serb civilians, residents of Gospić, who were taken out by Croats and policemen in the fall of 1991 and liquidated, have not yet been found, while their killers are still in high positions in the Croatian army, police and government , the Veritas Information - Documentation Centre announced today. 2024 LOCAL ELECTIONS SARAJEVO, OCTOBER 15 /SRNA/ - The Central Election Commission /CEC/ of BiH announced that the scanners worked effectively in 143 out of 145 polling stations in seven constituencies, which represents a 98.62 percent success rate during the entire election day in the recent local elections. BANJALUKA, OCTOBER 15 /SRNA/ - The United Srpska announced that the preliminary results published by the Central Election Commission /CEC/BiH show that this party won 14 percent more votes in this local elections than in the general elections two years ago.