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SRNA News Roundup /II/ - May 6, 2024

REPUBLIKA SRPSKA WARSAW, MAY 6 /SRNA/ - Several thousand Jews, including Holocaust survivors, marched today through the former Nazi death camp Auschwitz at the "March of the Living" event held annually in Poland. WASHINGTON, MAY 6 /SRNA/ - America criticized today the "irresponsible rhetoric" of Moscow after Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered military maneuvers involving non-strategic nuclear weapons. NEW YORK, MAY 6 /SRNA-RIA Novosti/ - The US-Japan draft resolution on space nuclear weapons in the UN Security Council contains dangerous elements and does not include preliminary technical and legal discussions, Russia's permanent representative to the UN Vasily Nebenzia said today. BERLIN, MAY 6 /SRNA – Reuters/ - An investigation has been launched against four teenagers for attacking German Member of European Parliament Matthias Ecke in Dresden, police said today. BANJA LUKA, MAY 6 /SRNA/ - Republika Srpska President Milorad Dodik wished a happy Djurdjevdan /St. George’s Day/ to everyone celebrating it today and wished them a lot of family happiness and success. LOPARE, MAY 6 /SRNA/ - His Grace Bishop of Zvornik-Tuzla, Fotije, expressed hope today that many people from the Diaspora will return because it is possible to live well in Republika Srpska and Serbia. BiH SARAJEVO, MAY 6 /SRNA/ - General Matthew Valas will take over from General Pamela McGaha as the NATO Headquarters Sarajevo commander on Friday May 10th. SERBIA MOSCOW, MAY 6 /SRNA/ - In a telephone conversation today, Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Serbia’s officials expressed their intention to resist malicious attempts to revise certain historical events in the Balkans. They also emphasized that attaching politicized labels to countries and peoples is unacceptable. BELGRADE, MAY 6 /SRNA/ - Darko Mladić, son of General Ratko Mladić, confirmed to SRNA that the Hague Mechanism was requested that General Mladić be urgently transferred to Serbia for medical treatment, as his vital organs have failed. He emphasized that the state of Serbia has reacted urgently and provided necessary guarantees. THE HAGUE, MAY 6 /SRNA/ - Lawyers defending General Ratko Mladić, who is serving a life prison sentence in The Hague, demand that he urgently be released on health grounds. REGION ZAGREB, MAY 6 /SRNA/ - SDSS president Milorad Pupovac said today that he wouldn't allow humiliation of the SDSS as a representative body of Serbs living in Croatia in the process of forming a new government & parliamentary majority, adding that he would oppose all forms of segregation, ethnic or political ones. VELJUN, MAY 6 /SRNA/- A commemoration of the 83rd anniversary of the Ustasha massacre of more than 500 Serbian civilians was held in the village of Veljun, in the area of Kordun, where it was said that this was genocide committed to exterminate Serbs in the territory of the Independent State of Croatia /NDH/.