SRNA News Roundup /II/ - June 11, 2023

BiH SARAJEVO, JUNE 11 /SRNA/ - Serb member and chairwoman of the BiH Presidency, Željka Cvijanović, has pointed out that China and the Chinese people are friendly to BiH and that she sees every success of China as an additional opportunity for improving bilateral relations. BEIJING, JUNE 11 /SRNA/ - Serb member and chairwoman of the BiH Presidency, Željka Cvijanović, states that local politicians should bear responsibility for the processes in the country instead pf internationals imposing certain solutions. REPUBLIKA SRPSKA BANJALUKA, JUNE 11 /SRNA/ - Assembly Speaker of the Republika Srpska Organization of Families of Captured and Killed Soldiers and Missing Civilians, Branimir Kojić, tells SRNA that the Sarajevo Serbs were not dying for the Sarajevo War Theater being more important in Banjaluka nowadays, and that the Serbs in Dobrovoljačka were not being killed in order to take down the flag of Republika Srpska outside the National Theater today. BANJALUKA, JUNE 11 /SRNA/ - The Organisation of the Republika Srpska Army Senior Officers strongly condemns the Republika Srpska National Theater in Banjaluka hosting the Sarajevo War Theater and asks the Srpska institutions to investigate this event in detail and take appropriate measures in order to avoid similar situations be repeated in the future. SERBIA BELGRADE, JUNE 11 /SRNA/ - His Holiness Patriarch Porfirije of Serbia said today, after the service held in the new Viennese Akathist Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary, that the Church was above every division and every party and called on the faithful to preserve the Orthodox faith. BELGRADE, JUNE 11 /SRNA/ - Today in Vienna, His Holiness Patriarch Porfirije of Serbia presented the Order of Saint Sava of the second order to the head of the Serbian Orthodox Church Municipality of Vienna, Milenko Jovanović. PRILUŽJE, JUNE 11 /SRNA/ - Divine Liturgy was served in the Church of the Holy Sunday in Prilužje on the occasion of the village's patron saint day - the Seventh Day after Ghosts, after which the faithful, led by children, processed through the village, showing their devotion to their ancestors. BELGRADE, JUNE 11 /SRNA/ - The return to holy Kosovo and Metohija should be a unifying idea of Serbs wherever they live, author of the children's book "Next year, in Prizren", Aleksandar Miljević told SRNA. BELGRADE, JUNE 11 /SRNA/ - Today, the fellow residents are lighting candles and leaving flowers in front of the "Vladislav Ribnikar" Elementary School in Belgrade's Vračar neighborhood on the occasion of the 40-day commemoration for the victims of the school mass massacre. BELGRADE, JUNE 11 /SRNA/ - The cousin of the young man suspected of the massacre in the villages around Mladenovac was arrested in Smederevo. BELGRADE, JUNE 11 /SRNA/ - The Hungarian police arrested a Serbian citizen who attempted to smuggle 14 migrants from Pakistan from Hungary to Austria. REGION PODGORICA, JUNE 11 /SRNA/ - Montenegrin President Jakov Milatović said that 60 percent of citizens would like Montenegro to join the Open Balkans initiative. PODGORICA, JUNE 11 /SRNA/ - The President of Montenegro, Jakov Milatović, said today, after voting in the extraordinary parliamentary elections, that he expects the new government to be formed quickly, efficiently and in accordance with the electoral will of the citizens. PODGORICA, JUNE 11 /SRNA/ - Election day in Montenegro is monitored by 100 observers from the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights /ODIHR/, said the head of the observation mission, Nina Suomalainen. PODGORICA, JUNE 11 /SRNA/ - All polling stations in the parliamentary elections in Montenegro are open, the election day is proceeding without irregularities for now, and by 1:00 p.m. 28.1 percent of voters have voted.