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Big Parties Claim Victory in Bosnia local Elections

Ahead of the announcement of the results in Bosnia's municipal elections on Sunday, the two main parties representing Bosniaks and Serbs claimed big victories.

Dacic urges peace in region, seeking common interests

BELGRADE - Serbia is advocating regional peace and stability - and stability in Bosnia and Herzegovina - and all countries in the region should start seeking common interests, FM Ivica Dacic said Thursday.

Dodik: There will be more - electronic - referendums

BANJALUKA - Republika Srpska President Milorad Dodik announced in Banjaluka Thursday there would be more referendums in the Bosnian Serb republic, noting that they would be conducted electronically to facilitate the process.

All those having a registered residence in Republika Srpska for six months will be eligible to vote in the referendums, he said.

Bosnians Urged to Vote as Local Polls Open

More than 5,000 polling stations opened Sunday at 7am as voters were urged to go out and cast ballots in Bosnia's local elections.

"There is no reason why, on October 2, you shouldn't take a small amount of time to go to the polling station and circle the option that suits you," Ahmed Santic, president of the Central Election Commission, CIK, told the media.

Dacic: There can be no referendum in Vojvodina

BELGRADE - There can be no referendum in Serbia's Vojvodina province as those who are proposing a referendum do not have the majority for the decision to call one, Serbian FM Ivica Dacic said Friday.

Dodik confirms receipt of summons, says will not go to Sarajevo

PALE - Republika Srpska President Milorad Dodik confirmed Wednesday he had received earlier in the day a summons for questioning by the Prosecutor's Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina over last Sunday's Republika Srpska Day referendum.

Dacic: There can be no referendum in Vojvodina

BELGRADE - There can be no referendum in Serbia's Vojvodina province as those who are proposing a referendum do not have the majority for the decision to call one, Serbian FM Ivica Dacic said Friday.

Goldstein: Serbia's contribution to regional growth biggest

BELGRADE - Southeast European countries are registering higher growth and a decline of high unemployment rates, and Serbia, as the largest economy in the region, has made the biggest contribution to this trend, says World Bank Country Director for Southeast Europe Ellen Goldstein.

Dodik: There will be more referendums

BANJALUKA - Republika Srpska President Milorad Dodik announced in Banjaluka Thursday there would be more referendums in the Bosnian Serb republic, noting that they would be conducted electronically to facilitate the process.

All those having a registered residence in Republika Srpska for six months will be eligible to vote in the referendums, he said.

Woman arrested for brutal wartime murder of boy in Bosnia

Elfeta Veseli has been detained in Switzerland on a request sent by the Prosecution of Bosnia-Herzegovina, reports said on Thursday.

She, along other suspects, is under investigation for murdering a Serb boy in the summer of 1992, in the vicinity of the town of Zvornik, eastern Bosnia-Herzegovina.

Dodik: Referendum was about RS Day, not status

BANJALUKA - Sunday's referendum in Republika Srpska (RS) was about the RS Day, not about status, says RS President Milorad Dodik.

The RS will respond with referendums in situations where attempts are made to deprive it of its rights, Dodik said at a press conference in Banjaluka late Sunday, after which a reporter asked him whether a referendum on independence should be ruled out.

"Summon everyone in RS for questioning, not just Dodik"

From the formal and legal point of view, "it is completely pointless for the Prosecution of Bosnia to summon only RS President Milorad Dodik for questioning."

This is according to Sinisa Karan, president of a commission the Serb entity, RS, set up to organize the RS Day referendum.

Chief prosecutor of Bosnia-Herzegovina suspended

The Disciplinary Commission of the High Judicial and Prosecutorial Council (VSTV) has suspended Chief Prosecutor of Bosnia-Herzegovina Goran Salihovic.

The Banja Luka daily Nezavisne Novine reported this unofficially on Wednesday.

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