SRNA News Roundup /III/ - September 21, 2023

REPUBLIKA SRPSKA ZVORNIK, SEPTEMBER 21 /SRNA/ - Republika Srpska President Milorad Dodik said today that "Alumina" in Zvornik is on the path of stabilization and that legal and financial actions are being taken that enable the stability of this company. BANJALUKA, SEPTEMBER 21 /SRNA/ - In a letter to the Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, Dunja Mijatović, Speaker of the Republika Srpska National Assembly Nenad Stevandić said that laws are passed in a democratic way in Srpska, in parliament after public debates. BANJALUKA, SEPTEMBER 21 /SRNA/ - Police officers of the Republika Srpska Ministry of Internal Affairs are undertaking measures and actions prescribed by law and the Constitution in order to make the security situation in the territory of Srpska favorable, therefore providing safety to citizens and their property, regardless of which nation they belong to, it was concluded at a meeting of the professional advisory board of line minister Siniša Karan in Zvornik, which was also attended by Republika Srpska Prime Minister Radovan Višković. BANJALUKA, SEPTEMBER 21 /SRNA/ - Republika Srpska Minister of Labor, War Veterans and Disabled Persons' Protection Danijel Egić assessed the decision of the Court of BiH to reject the indictment against 13 members of the so-called Army of BiH for crimes against Serbian civilians in Jošanica near Foča as shameful, stressing that this indirectly represents another insidious attempt to turn the victim into the aggressor. BELGRADE, SEPTEMBER 21 /SRNA/ - Historian Miloš Ković told SRNA that Christian Schmidt's latest moves and statements show that what he is doing is turning from tragicomedy to pure comedy and pointed out that his actions should be seen as a kind of neocolonial adventurism. BIJELJINA, SEPTEMBER 21 /SRNA/ - The Investment-Development Bank /IDB/ of Republika Srpsk has so far invested BAM 178.3 million in the Bijeljina area, IDB acting director Dražen Vrhovac told SRNA. LOPARE, SEPTEMBER 21 /SRNA/ - The 31st anniversary of the defense of Majevica in the Defense-Patriotic War and the killing of 16 soldiers of the "Guard Panthers," including Guard commander Colonel Branko Pantelić Panter, was marked today on Panjik above Priboj. KOZARSKA DUBICA, SEPTEMBER 21 /SRNA/ - The Day of the 11th Infantry Brigade, formed 32 years ago, was marked today in Kozarska Dubica. The Brigade, which had around 6,000 soldiers, went through almost all the battlefields in the Defense-Patriotic War of Republika Srpska and did not lose a centimeter of the Serbian territory. BANJALUKA, SEPTEMBER 21 /SRNA/ - As part of the celebration of the Patron Saint's Day of the Banjaluka settlement of Starčevica - the Nativity of the Most Holy Mother of God, a memorial service was held in that local community and wreaths and flowers were laid at the monument to 105 soldiers of the Republika Srpska Army who laid down their lives for the defense of Srpska. Speaker of the National Assembly Nenad Stevandić said that monuments like this wrote the Constitution of Srpska. BANJALUKA, SEPTEMBER 21 /SRNA/ - Last year, a total of 238 persons in Republika Srpska were diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease and 1,534 were diagnosed with dementia, the Republika Srpska Institute of Public Health told SRNA. BiH SARAJEVO, SEPTEMBER 21 /SRNA/ - An emergency session of the House of Representatives of the BiH Parliamentary Assembly started this afternoon in Sarajevo where MPs should consider the proposal of measures and activities to improve the safety of returnees in BiH. SARAJEVO, SEPTEMBER 21 /SRNA/ - The House of Representatives of the BiH Parliamentary Assembly did not pass today a bill on foreign affairs of BiH. SARAJEVO, SEPTEMBER 21 /SRNA/ - Head of the SNSD Caucus in the House of Representatives of the BiH Parliamentary Assembly Sanja Vulić said that SNSD MPs did not support the draft bills on foreign affairs and on the conclusion and execution of international agreements sponsored by the Council of Ministers, because all the MPs had objections to these solutions that cannot be fixed by amendments. BANJALUKA, SEPTEMBER 21 /SRNA/ - In eight months of this year, the Indirect Taxation Authority /ITA/ of BiH collected a record BAM 6.931 billion in indirect taxes, which is BAM 931 million more than last year, it was said at a meeting between the Chairperson of the BiH Council of Ministers, Borjana Krišto, and ITA director Zoran Tegeltija. SARAJEVO, SEPTEMBER 21 /SRNA/ - Head of the EU Delegation to BiH Johann Sattler spoke today with a group of leading companies and associations in order to see the potential of a private-public partnership for solving the problem of air pollution, one of the most serious problems facing Sarajevo's functional urban area - Sarajevo Canton and the cities of Sarajevo and East Sarajevo. FEDERATION OF BiH MOSTAR, SEPTEMBER 21 /SRNA/ - His Holiness Serbian Patriarch Porfirije will stay in Mostar on Saturday and Sunday, September 23-24, on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the consecration of the Cathedral Church of Holy Trinity which has not yet been rebuilt after it was completely demolished in 1992. SERBIA BELGRADE, SEPTEMBER 21 /SRNA/ - Films of students of the Academy of Arts of the University of Banjaluka were screened at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade as part of the "Days of Srpska in Serbia" event.