Milorad Dodik

Turkey denies it prevented Dodik from reaching Armenia

ANKARA -- The Turkish Foreign Ministry has denied that the country on Wednesday blocked its airspace for an airplane carrying RS President Milorad Dodik.

Ankara has refuted claims suggesting that the Turkish authorities stopped Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik's plane from flying over its territory The Turkish capital has refuted claims suggesting Turkish authorities on April 22 stopped Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik's plane from flying over its territory, preventing him from attending a ceremony to mark the centenary of the mass kil

Dodik's plane heading to Armenia unable to fly over Turkey

BANJA LUKA -- Milorad Dodik was on Wednesday traveling to Armenia at the invitation President Serzh Sargsyan, but his plane did not receive the permission to fly over Turkey.

After several hours of waiting in Bulgaria, the plane on Wednesday afternoon returned to Banja Luka.

DONJA GRADINA - The ceremony to mark April 22 as the Memory day in honour of genocide victims in the Jasenovac concentration camp began by wreath-laying at the memorial place in the Donja Gradina Memorial Centre in Republika Srpska (RS).

RS leader Dodik honors Srebrenica victims

POTOCARI -- President of the Serb Republic (RS) Milorad Dodik on Thursday laid a wreath for Bosniak (Muslim) victims at the Potocari Memorial Center near Srebrenica.

This was Dodik's first visit to the memorial, the Beta news agency reported, adding that his visit was announced at the start of the year and postponed twice.

The new government of Bosnia's Serb-dominated entity, Republika Srpska, faces a dilemma in selecting a strategic partner to buy the Ljubija iron ore mines.

Igor Radojicic, a popular figure in the main Bosnian Serb party, the Alliance of Independent Social Democrats, SNSD, is close to resigning - or being kicked out - from the party, which could undermine the political stability of Republika Srpska, a party source told Balkan Insight.

Bosnia's ambassador to Serbia, Ranko Skrbic, resigned on Wednesday, citing "substantial and conceptual disagreements with the current policy in Bosnia and Herzegovina," local media reported Skrbic's resignation letter as saying.

NOVI SAD - Bosnia-Herzegovina (BiH) Ambassador to Serbia Ranko Skrbic told Tanjug on Wednesday that he has tendered an irrevocable resignation.

Skrbic said that he has forwarded a copy of the resignation to President of Republika Srpska (RS) Milorad Dodik, who proposed that he should be appointed to the office in line with the RS Constitution in 2013.

Republika Srpska president Milorad Dodik has called for the creation of a new international commission about the massacres of Bosniaks from Srebrenica in July 1995, which he called a “huge crime”.