SRNA News Roundup /II/ - June 6, 2023

REPUBLIKA SRPSKA LINZ, JUNE 10 /SRNA/ - The President of Republika Srpska Milorad Dodik has said today in Mauthausen that the series of sufferings of the Serb people in the last century would have to be turned into energy for its unification and indicated that strength for future should be found in returning to the roots. EAST SARAJEVO, JUNE 10 /SRNA/ - East Sarajevo has marked today 31 years since the formation of the Eighth Detachment of the Ilidža Police Special Brigade of the Republika Srpska MoI, through which about 270 members passed, 18 of whom were killed and 250 were wounded during the Defensive - Patriotic War. BANJALUKA, JUNE 10 /SRNA/ - The establishment of the Cardiac Surgery Clinic at the University Clinical Center /UCC/ represents the crown of the health system in Republika Srpska, the Srpska Minister of Health and Social Welfare, Alen Šeranić, said today. BANJALUKA, JUNE 10 /SRNA/ - Head of the Gas Department in the Ministry of Energy and Mining of Republika Srpska, Maja Mrkić Bosančić, believes that the Eastern Gas Interconnection Project is of strategic interest for Republika Srpska, as it will ensure greater security of gas supply. FEDERATION OF BiH MOSTAR, JUNE 10 /SRNA/ - The school year at the Prosvjetina’s School of Serbian Language, History and Culture has ended successfully in the Žitomislić Monastery. SARAJEVO, JUNE 10 /SRNA/ - SDP BiH Leader Nermin Nikšić said today, on the eve of the party congress, that there is an option for prolonging the election of the SDP leader after the local elections. SERBIA LINZ, JUNE 10 /SRNA/ - His Holiness Patriarch Porfirije of Serbia has said today that Mauthausen is the place of crucifixion and extermination of Orthodox Serbs whose bequest and will are being fulfilled by the construction of the Memorial Chapel at the Military Cemetery. BELGRADE, JUNE 10 /SRNA/ - Serbia’s Minister of Labour, Employment, War Veterans and Social Affairs Nikola Selaković said after consecrating the Memorial Chapel of the Holy Serbian New Martyrs at the Military Cemetery in Mauthausen, where thousands of Serb soldiers and civilians are buried, that this is the first time after 1918 that the Serbian martyrs get their own memorial in Upper Austria. BELGRADE, JUNE 10 /SRNA/ - International criminal law professor Sreto Nogo said on the occasion of the 24th anniversary of the end of the NATO bombing of Serbia that the consequences of that brutal act on the population are catastrophic, that the aggressors are unpunished, but that war crimes do not become statute-barred. MITROVICA, KOSOVO, JUNE 10 /SRNA/ - Today, Serbs gathered at the municipal buildings in Leposavić and Zvečan, protesting the illegal mayors in the north municipalities and the presence of special forces of the Kosovo Police.