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Bosnia elections indicate time right for civic ideas, says pundit

Ljubljana – Faris Kočan, a researcher at the Centre of International Relations at the Ljubljana Faculty of Social Sciences, believes the results of the general elections in Bosnia and Herzegovina available so far indicate time may have come for civic ideas as opposed to nationalism.

Sanctioned Politicians Join Race for Posts in Bosnia Elections

Milorad Dodik, the Bosnian Serb leader and Serbian member of the tripartite state presidency, will not be running for a second mandate in October, he has clarified.

Instead, Dodik, who has been sanctioned twice by the US and once by the UK, will be running for the post of president of Bosnia's Serb-majority entity, Republika Srpska.

"There is border between Serbia and RS... temporarily"

Banja Luka is the largest town in the Serb Republic (RS), the Serb entity in Bosnia-Herzegovina.

"There is some border there, that is temporary. RS President Milorad Dodik will, together with all of us, make en effort to erase it. That's not nationalism, but European integration," Predrag Markovic said in Banja Luka, addressing a congress of the Socialist Party (SP) of the RS.

Bosnian Politicians Snub Trust-Building Get-Together

The chairman of the presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Dragan Covic, announced on Wednesday that a planned working lunch in the town of Mostar with presidency members and the country's political party leaders has been cancelled.

The official reason given by Covic's office was the "inability of the participants to arrive".

Bosnia: Minister resigns over arms sales to Ukraine

Bosnia: Minister resigns over arms sales to Ukraine

BANJA LUKA -- Bosnia's minister of external trade and economic relations Boris Tucic has resigned "over the sale of arms from Bosnia-Herzegovina to Ukraine."

This was announced on Thursday in Banja Luka by the president of Bosnia's Serb entity, the RS, Milorad Dodik.