Milorad Dodik

Leaders of all Republika Srpska's main political parties agreed on Sunday to ask the Bosnian Serb National Assembly to initiate a referendum asking people if they support the recent decision by the Constitutional Court to abolish the annual Republic Day holiday celebrating the entity's foundation.

Bosnia's State Intelligence and Protection Agency, SIPA, raided the premises of Pavlovic International Bank in the northeastern Bosnian town of Bijeljina on Wednesday.

They entered the bank "under a mandate given by the Prosecution of Bosnia and Herzegovina, which is investigating a possible case of illegal transactions", the spokesperson of SIPA confirmed to BIRN.

VISIT TO SREBRENICA Prime minister Vucic paid respects in memorial center Potocari

Serbian PM Aleksandar Vucic on Wednesday laid flowers and paid respects to the Srebrenica victims at the memorial center Potocari in Srebrenica.

RS President Milorad Dodik says it is good that Serbia is building build good relations in the region - but believes it has chosen the wrong partner in Bosnia.

Serb Republic (RS) President Milorad Dodik has filed a lawsuit against himself, local media reported on Monday, according to the Tanjug agency.

The lawsuit was filed before the prosecution of the Serb entity (RS) and that of Bosnia-Herzegovina.

The construction of a Ljubovija-Bratunac bridge across the Drina River on the border between Serbia and Bosnia-Herzegovina began on Tuesday.

The ceremony was attended by Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic and RS President Milorad Dodik.

Despite condemnation from local and regional officials, the leadership of Bosnia's Serb-dominated entity, Republika Srpska, has moved ahead with holding a hotly disputed referendum on the authority of state and international institutions.

Milorad Dodik, the president of Bosnia's Serb-dominated entity Republika Srpska, withdrew from parliament on Wednesday the draft legislation which would have granted benefits to the entity's founders, senior officials and MPs who held office between 1991 and 1996, including Karadzic.

Dodik said that the law was withdrawn because "unprincipled" opposition.

Milorad Dodik says the Court and the Prosecutor's Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina are not interested in solving the case of attack Aleksadar Vucic.

The Serbian prime minister was assaulted in Potocari on July 11.

RS President Milorad Dodik has called Bakir Izetbegovic the biggest generator of obstacles "to all processes in Bosnia."

Dodik accused him of wanting to create "a unitary and sharia state out of Bosnia-Herzegovina."