TREBINJE

Srdjan Aleksic's father said on Friday that the tributes paid to his son, who died 30 years ago and has become a rare symbol of wartime tolerance, are keeping him alive.

As he arranged flowers on his son's grave in the city of Trebinje, Rade Aleksic proudly showed off a pot on which unknown mourners had written the message: "To a fellow citizen - a hero."

Courts in the towns of Doboj and Sokolac have rejected requests to ban 16 associations whose titles contain the words 'Chetnik Movement' or 'Ravna Gora Movement', while three more courts in Bosnia's Serb-majority Republika Srpska entity are still considering requests to ban the associations, BIRN has learned.

The Prime Ministers of Serbia and the RS, Ana Brnabic and Zeljka Cvijanovic respectively, confirmed this in a joint press conference after the joint session of the two governments in the southern town of Trebinje.

The Serbian government has set aside EUR 250,000 for the newly established Solidarity Fund of the Serb Republic (RS) for treatment of children abroad.

Prime Minister Ana Brnabic said this is Banja Luka on Wednesday.

Prime Minister Ana Brnabic said this is Banja Luka on Wednesday.

Brnabic stressed that Serbia does this primarily because people in Serbia and in the RS - the Serb entity in Bosnia-Herzegovina - are "bound by ties of great friendship and solidarity."

Police in the southern Bosnian town of Trebinje have filed war crimes charges against retired Bosnian army general Jovan Divjak for allegedly committing crimes against Serbs in the 1992-5 war.

After warnings that the country may have to brace itself to receive a wave of refugees and migrants, Bosnia is preparing locations for the possible settlement of about 5,000 refugees if the Balkan "refugee route" reactivates in future.

The Serbian member of Bosnia's tripartite presidency, Mladen Ivanic, who comes from the Bosnian Serb opposition bloc, has dismissed reports that the bloc could break up following the defeat in recent local elections.

A joint project between Croatia and Bosnia aims to revitalise the old railways built by the Austria-Hungarian Empire by creating a network of bicycle trails, which will also help unlock the tourist potential of the region.

In a battle to win votes ahead of general elections in Bosnia and Herzegovina on October 12, Bosnia's sharp-elbowed parties are not choosing their words carefully.

Most prefer to talk about their rivals' multiple errors and grave crimes than talk about what they would do in power.