SRNA News Roundup /II/- April 15, 2024

REPUBLIKA SRPSKA BANJA LUKA, APRIL 15 /SRNA/ - President of Republika Srpska Milorad Dodik shas aid today that the genocide in Srebrenica is a fabrication that will tear BiH apart. BANJA LUKA, APRIL 15 /SRNA/ - Republika Srpska President Milorad Dodik has said today that he will respect the Constitution of BiH as long as it is not applied against Srpska. BANJA LUKA, APRIL 15 /SRNA/ - President of Republika Srpska Milorad Dodik has said today in Banja Luka that he does not expect any consequences due to the implementation of measures related to the independence of Republika Srpska, but a free Srpska that will keep having the right to its own institutions and life. BANJA LUKA, APRIL 15 /SRNA/ - SNSD leader Milorad Dodik has said today in Banja Luka that Republika Srpska will initiate independence proceedings aa a reply to the resolution on Srebrenica before the UN General Assembly. BANJA LUKA, APRIL 15 /SRNA/ - SNSD leader Milorad Dodik has said today in Banja Luka that the Bosnian Muslim elite scored an own goal by initiating the theory on Srebrenica before the UN General Assembly and that there will be no more coexistence in BiH after this. BANJA LUKA, APRIL 15 /SRNA/ - President of Republika Srpska Milorad Dodik said that the April pension will be paid on April 30. MOSTAR, APRIL 15 /SRNA/ - President of Republika Srpska Milorad Dodik met tonight in Mostar with the EU's special representative for Belgrade - Priština dialogue and other regional issues of the Balkans, Miroslav Lajčak. BANJA LUKA, APRIL 15 /SRNA/ - Serb member of the BiH Presidency Željka Cvijanović said that Serbian tricolors are a symbol of freedom, pride and love for Republika Srpska. BANJA LUKA, APRIL 15 /SRNA/ - Republika Srpska National Assembly Speaker Nenad Stevandić said that Republika Srpska is at a crucial time when it cannot take a step back because it is right about local and international standards and when it comes to the relations between the disputed resolution on Srebrenica, as well as the electoral law of Srpska. BANJA LUKA, APRIL 15 /SRNA/ - Republika Srpska National Assembly Speaker Nenad Stevandić expressed his expectation that the Republika Srpska Representative Office in Germany will fulfill its role of being a bridge between Srpska and Germany, but also a voice of Serbs in Germany that will be well understood and have its influence. JEZERO, APRIL 15 /SRNA/ - Republika Srpska Minister of Labour, War Veterans and Disabled Persons Protection Danijel Egić said that the initiative to adopt a resolution on Srebrenica before the UN General Assembly represents Germany's intention to wash away the genocide it committed in the past. BANJA LUKA, APRIL 15 /SRNA/ - DEMOS Leader Nedeljko Čubrilović said that the resolution on Srebrenica will further complicate the situation in BiH and that the coalition has decided to support the announced "Serbia is Calling" rally on Thursday, April 18, in Banja Luka, which is support for Republika Srpska and the Serb people. BANJA LUKA, APRIL 15 /SRNA/ - SP Leader Petar Đokić said that the public meeting, which is scheduled for Thursday, April 18, is an important expression of the will of the Serb people who do not want to be qualified as genocidal, and emphasized that Serbs are the ones who were giving their lived for freedom in the past. BANJA LUKA, APRIL 15 /SRNA/ - NPS Leader Darko Banjac said that it is necessary to restore Republika Srpska’s rights and that the adoption of the Srpska electoral law will contribute to this. EAST SARAJEVO, APRIL 15 /SRNA/ - Mayor of East Sarajevo Ljubiša Ćosić said that it should not be allowed to label Serb people with the resolution on Srebrenica, especially bearing in mind that more than a million Serbs perished in the Second World War, while two a third of the Serb population was killed in the First World War. BANJALUKA, APRIL 15 /SRNA/ - The Mayor of Banja Luka, Draško Stanivuković, called on his fellow residents and citizens of Republika Srpska to attend a large meeting of the Serb people on Thursday, April 18, in order to send a unique message, without political connotations, that the Serbs and Republika Srpska love freedom and that the Serbian people sufferred. SREBRENICA, APRIL 15 /SRNA/ - Deputy Speaker of the Municipal Assembly /MA/ Srebrenica Miloš Milovanović told SRNA that Republika Srpska must take a firm stand and prove the truth about the crimes against Serbs in the last war in these areas and emphasized that with this goal, the local parliament today adopted a letter that will be sent to the UN General Assembly. SREBRENICA, APRIL 15 /SRNA/ - The Serb councilors in the Srebrenica Municipal Assembly unanimously adopted a letter about the data on Serb victims in the 20th century wars, including 3,500 Serb victims from Srebrenica killed during the civil war in BiH, to be sent to the UN General Assembly and the governments of Republika Srpska and Serbia. BELGRADE, APRIL 15 /SRNA/ - The conservative movement "Ours" assessed that the resolution on Srebrenica, which is being prepared in the UN General Assembly, is fully unfounded and represents political unanimity, distortion of historical facts and shameful falsification of history. SREBRENICA, APRIL 15 /SRNA/ - Mayor of Srebrenica Mladen Grujičić has told SRNA today that the persecution of the Serb people continues in BiH and that the new resolution on Srebrenica adds fuel to the fire and adds "salt on the wounds" of the Serb victims. BANJA LUKA, APRIL 15 /SRNA/ - On Thursday, April 18, a large meeting will be held at Krajine Square in Banja Luka, from which it will be clearly and loudly announced that no one can and will not humiliate Republika Srpska and the Serb people, no matter where and how decisions are made. SOKOLAC, APRIL 15 /SRNA/ - The wartime commander of the "Wolves of the Drina" special unit, Milan Jolović, said that the Serb people, accustomed to the injustices of the powerful, will also fight against the Muslim resolution on Srebrenica, which they are trying to put on the agenda of the UN General Assembly. BIJELJINA, APRIL 15 /SRNA/ - Aleksa Lazarevic, the representative of the former special unit of the Republika Srpska Army "Tobutski sokolovi", said that today we are talking about the resolution initiated by the countries that never forgave Serbia for its liberation from the Turks, the First and Second Balkan War and World War II. DOBOJ, APRIL 15 /SRNA/ - More than 3,000 members of the SNSD Doboj City Committee will attend a large meeting of the Serb people in Banja Luka on Thursday, April 18, to say that they will not allow humiliation of the Serbs and that no one can impose decisions that are against their will, deputy chair of the SNSD Doboj City Committee, Danijel Jošić, told SRNA. PALE, APRIL 15 /SRNA/ - The Chair of the Pale SNSD Municipal Committee, Branko Koroman, said that the announced large Serb people's rally in Banja Luka on April 18 will announce that Serbs are dedicated to peace, their freedom and the defense of their future. PRNJAVOR, APRIL 15 /SRNA/ - The initiative to adopt a resolution on Srebrenica in the UN General Assembly has nothing to do with truth and reality, therefore an adequate and unified replay of the Serbian people is necessary, head of the municipal War Veterans Organization Prnjavor, Perica Đumić, told SRNA. BELGRADE, APRIL 15 /SRNA/ - Member of Parliament of Serbia Branimir Nestorović assessed that the resolution on Srebrenica, which is being prepared for adoption before the UN General Assembly, shows that Serbia and the Serb people should part ways with the West and build their future on the other side. EAST SARAJEVO, APRIL 15 /SRNA/ - Attacks on Republika Srpska will never stop and as long as it exists there will be a need for its preservation, the responsibility of which can only be borne by a people like the Serbs, said lawyer Ognjen Tadić. BiH SARAJEVO, APRIL 15 /SRNA/ - Serb member of the BiH Presidency Željka Cvijanović posted on Instagram a photo in which Alija Izetbegović, Sakib Mahmuljin and Islamic terrorists from the El Mujahideen detachment celebrate the murders and persecution of Serbs from Vozuća, pointing out that such are called "fighters for democratic and multi-ethnic BiH" today in Sarajevo. SARAJEVO, APRIL 15 /SRNA/ - Serhas member of the BiH Presidency Željka Cvijanović said today in Sarajevo at a meeting with the EU's special representative for Belgrade - Priština dialogue and other regional issues of the Western Balkans, Miroslav Lajčak, that the EU can be only credible partner of BiH in the process of European integration. SARAJEVO, APRIL 15 /SRNA/ - Serb member of the Presidency of BiH Željka Cvijanović and Governor of the Central Bank of BiH Jasmina Selimović today exchanged opinions at a meeting in Sarajevo on the assessment of the state of development and the possibility of improving the financial market, as well as on the challenges of the banking sector in the light of the opening of negotiations process with the EU, announced the BiH Presidency. BANJA LUKA, APRIL 15 /SRNA/ - President of Republika Srpska Milorad Dodik said that the democratically elected representatives of the constituent peoples in joint institutions are obliged to resume the constitutional legislative role to the Parliamentary Assembly in accordance with the Constitution. BANJA LUKA, APRIL 15 /SRNA/ - Republika Srpska President Milorad Dodik says that US Ambassador Michael Murphy is leaving BiH at the beginning of June, pointing out that it is happening even before the official office expiration, primarily because of the politics that caused the problems. BANJA LUKA, APRIL 15 /SRNA/ - SNSD leader Milorad Dodik said that the SDA blocked the House of Peoples and that the National Assembly of Republika Srpska will decide on the Electoral Law because it will conduct its own elections. BANJALUKA, APRIL 15 /SRNA/ - President of Republika Srpska Milorad Dodik said that the so-called Army of RBiH was a criminal organization and the fact that there are those who mark such a thing speaks of why BiH is country impossible. SARAJEVO, APRIL 15 /SRNA/ - Today there are no more Serbs and there are fewer Croats in the territory controlled by the so-called Army of BiH in the last war, leader of the Croati Peasant Party /HSS/BiH Mario Karamatić told SRNA. SARAJEVO, APRIL 15 /SRNA/ - The European Investment Fund has signed portfolio guarantee agreements with 11 banks and financial intermediaries in the economies of the Western Balkans, which will enable local banks and financial institutions to create a portfolio of loans for small and medium-sized enterprises in the amount of more than EUR 750 million. FEDERATION OF BiH SARAJEVO, APRIL 15 /SRNA/ - Deputy Speaker of the House of Peoples of the BiH Parliamentary Assembly, Dragan Čović, and the EU's special envoy for Belgrade - Priština dialogue and other regional issues of the Western Balkans, Miroslav Lajčak, emphasized that political leaders in BiH must remain committed to finding solutions that will contribute to progress. SARAJEVO, APRIL 15 /SRNA/ - Deputy Speaker of the House of Peoples of the BiH Parliamentary Assembly, Dragan Čović, spoke today in Mostar with the President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić, about economic cooperation, infrastructure projects, the European path of both countries, and the improvement of political dialogue in the region. MOSTAR, APRIL 15 /SRNA/ - The Chairperson of the Council of Ministers, Borjana Krišto, said that Air Serbia flights on the newly established Belgrade-Mostar airline will have multiple significance for the relations between the two countries, the entire BiH, as well as the Mostar region. MOSTAR, APRIL 15 /SRNA/ - The President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić, said that the first flight of the Air Serbia on the Belgrade-Mostar route, on which he arrived in Herzegovina today, is a big step for that city, Herzegovina, Belgrade, and the entire BiH and Serbia. SERBIA NOVI SAD, APRIL 15 /SRNA/ - The Minister of Foreign and Internal Trade of Serbia, Tomislav Momirović, said that Serbia will fight to connect markets in the region and protect its interests, but the issues from the past are discussed instead of how Serbia and BiH should build a powerful economic alliance with three billion Euros of trade exchange. BELGRADE, APRIL 15 /SRNA/ - The Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe today supported the draft opinion on the membership of the self-declared Kosovo in the Council of Europe. REGION BELGRADE, APRIL 16 /SRNA/ - The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Serbia sent a note of protest to the Croat Embassy in Belgrade regarding the ban on the entry of the minister without portfolio in charge of coordinating activities and measures in the field of Serbia's relations with the diaspora, Đorđe Milićević, into the Jasenovac Memorial Zone. BELGRADE, APRIL 15 /SRNA/ - By banning Serbian officials from visiting Jasenovac, the largest death factory in the Balkans and one of the largest concentration camps in the Second World War, Croatia is sending a clear message that it does not recognize and respect the victims of the genocide of the Independent State of Croatia /NDH /, the president of the Association of Serbs from the region, Miodrag Linta, told SRNA. BELGRADE, APRIL 15 /SRNA/ - The Minister of Foreign Affairs of North Macedonia, Bujar Osmani, said that this country will be one of the co-sponsors of the resolution on Srebrenica, which will be voted on in the UN General Assembly on May 2.