Milorad Dodik

Vučić and Dodik differ on Erdogan's statement

BELGRADE -- Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vučić says he "wants to believe" his Turkish counterpart did not make a controversial statement as reported over the weekend.

Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic is due to hold meetings with the Turkish ambassador to Serbia and the President of Bosnia’s Serb entity Republika Srpska, Milorad Dodik on Monday to discuss Erdogan’s alleged comments.

Erdogan was reported to have told an election campaign rally that Turkey would take action if Bosniaks were threatened in any way.

BELGRADE - Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic will talk with President of Republika Srpska (RS) Milorad Dodik in Belgrade on Monday about the statement by Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

On Sunday, Dodik addressed a letter to Vucic, voicing concern and asking for a meeting over the Turkish prime minister's statement.

Ambassador: Erdogan made no controversial statement

BELGRADE, SARAJEVO -- Reports carried by some media in Bosnia quoting a controversial statement allegedly made by Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan are "not true."

This is what Turkish Ambassador in Belgrade Mehmet Kemal Bozay told Tanjug on Sunday.

BELGRADE - Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic will confer with Republika Srpska (RS) President Milorad Dodik in Belgrade on Monday, whom he invited for emergency consultations after the statement made by Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

BANJA LUKA - President of Republika Srpska (RS) Milorad Dodik and Serbian Ambassador to Bosnia-Herzegovina (BiH) Stanimir Vukicevic underlined the importance of very good relations between RS and Serbia at a meeting in Banja Luka on Tuesday.

ANDRICGRAD - The Holy Synod of the Serbian Orthodox Church (SPC) delivered the Order of Holy King Milutin to Republika Srpska (RS) President Milorad Dodik and Andricgrad mastermind Emir Kusturica.

Patriarch Irinej of SPC said in Andricgrad on Saturday that the medal was awarded to Dodik and Kusturica at the proposal of Bishop Grigorije of Zahumlje-Herzegovina and the Littoral.

VISEGRAD – Republika Srpska (RS) President Milorad Dodik said on Saturday when opening cultural and historical complex Andricgrad that the Serb people in Bosnia-Herzegovina (BiH) will continue fighting for autonomy, hoping that the political process will eventually result in the independence.

Monument to Gavrilo Princip unveiled in East Sarajevo

SARAJEVO -- As part of events marking 100 years since the outbreak of WW1, a monument to Gavrilo Princip has been unveiled in the newly built city park in East Sarajevo.

The statue was cast in bronze and is two meters tall, the work of Belgrade-based sculptor Zoran Kuzmanović.

The first exhibition, which opened on Thursday at the Bosnian History Museum in Sarajevo, uses documents, photographs and other archive materials to tell the story of the assassination by young Serb Gavrilo Princip on June 28, 1914, and its impact on Bosnia and Herzegovina and the world.