SRNA News Roundup /I/ August 31, 2024

REPUBLIKA SRPSKA

BELGRADE, AUGUST 31 /SRNA/ - Today in Belgrade, with the blessing of His Holiness Serbian Patriarch Porfirije and his message that unity is key to the survival of the Serbian people wherever they live, the gathering of the Serbian diaspora and Serbs in the region "Unity and Strength - Serbia" began, attended by representatives of Republika Srpska. The Minister for European Integration and International Cooperation of Republika Srpska Zlatan Klokić, who is attending the "Unity and Strength - Serbia" meeting in Belgrade, said that this is another opportunity to manifest the strength and unity of the Serbian people and to further strengthen the ties between Serbia and Srpska with the Serbian diaspora. SREBRENICA, AUGUST 31 /SRNA/ - In the Church of the Intercession of the Holy Mother of God in Srebrenica, a memorial service was held today for 53 fallen fighters of the 65th Protective Motorized Regiment of the Main Staff of the Republika Srpska Army /RSA/, and on that occasion it was said that harmony and unity should be preserved even today which was defended in the war. ISTOČNO SARAJEVO, AUGUST 31 /SRNA/ - The Employment Agency of Republika Srpska has announced a public call for employment programs for this year, which, in accordance with the Action Plan, is worth about BAM 10 million. BiH BANJA LUKA, AUGUST 31 /SRNA/ - The head of the Club of SNSD deputies in the House of Representatives of the Parliamentary Assembly of BiH, Sanja Vulić, told SRNA that the behavior of diplomats from the USA is scandalous and hypocritical because they present their country as a bastion of democracy and human rights, while in others they threaten basic human rights through sanctions, denying workers the right to wages and livelihood. BELGRADE, AUGUST 31 /SRNA/ - Professor Emeritus Nenad Kecmanović stated that the legal state and the rule of law in Bosnia and Herzegovina do not exist even as a tenant, and that Sarajevo is more interested in restraining Belgrade and Banja Luka than improving its own conditions and "does not care about" either the Constitution or the laws. SERBIA PRAGUE, AUGUST 31 /SRNA/ - The President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić, spoke in Prague with the EU's special envoy for dialogue between Belgrade and Priština, Miroslav Lajčak, to whom he conveyed his concern about the latest violence in Kosovo and Metohija, the repeated violation of rights and the threat to the safety of the Serbian population by arrogant and the illegal moves of Priština. KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, AUGUST 31 /SRNA/ - KFOR increased its presence and deployed soldiers on the bridge over the Ibar in Kosovska Mitrovica, and the buildings of local governments and other institutions of the Government of Serbia in four municipalities in the north of Kosovo and Metohija are still blocked, and the police are in front of the entrance. BELGRADE, AUGUST 31 /SRNA/ - Serbian Prime Minister Miloš Vučević said today that the Prime Minister of the self-proclaimed Kosovo, Aljbin Kurti, wants to provoke a hasty reaction from Serbia with unilateral actions, but that Belgrade, despite the almost unsustainable situation in Kosmet, must not respond to provocations, and stressed that concrete measures must be taken by the international factor. KOSOVO AND METOHIJA, AUGUST 31 /SRNA/ - The director of the Office of the Government of Serbia for Kosovo and Metohija, Petar Petković, said today that the latest intrusion by the police of the self-proclaimed Kosovo into Serbian institutions in the north of Kosmet is another unilateral and violent move by the Prime Minister of the so-called Kosovo, Aljbin Kurti, whose anti-Serb politics brought situation to a boiling point. BELGRADE, AUGUST 31 /SRNA/ - The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Serbia, Marko Đurić, said today that the unilateral actions of the temporary Priština institutions represent a threat to stability and that they should be punished. BELGRADE, AUGUST 30 /SRNA/ - The Serbian List sent a formal request for an urgent meeting to the ambassadors of the Quint countries and the EU and representatives of KFOR regarding the alarming situation in the north of Kosmet, caused by the illegal and violent actions of Aljbin Kurti, whose special units raided Serbian institutions in all four municipalities in the north. BELGRADE, AUGUST 31 /SRNA/ - Serbian Paralympian Nebojša Đurić was stripped of his shot put silver medal at the Paralympic Games in Paris due to allegedly inadequate equipment, and the Serbian Paralympic Committee announced that there is no excuse for this great injustice. REGION BELGRADE, AUGUST 31 /SRNA/ - Professor of geopolitics Dragan Kolev told SRNA that tens of millions of euros have been set aside for a hybrid war against Serbs and Serbian states, and that a significant part of that money is aimed at dismantling the Serbian Orthodox Church, because it bearer of the national identity of the Serbian people.