Mirko Sarovic

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.

Bosnian Serb political representatives begin a boycott of state institutions on Tuesday, which will effectively prevent them from functioning, in a protest against the imposition of a ban on genocide and war crimes denial.

He stated that after the meeting of the leaders of the parliamentary political parties from Republika Srpska.
One of the conclusions of the meeting is that the amendments to the two laws should be sent to the procedure.

A three-centuries-old gilded icon, presented to Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov by Milorad Dodik, Chairman of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina, will be returned amid a row over its origins, the Russian Foreign Ministry told the Russian media.

Bosnians gathered in front of the Croatian embassy in Sarajevo on Monday, protesting over possible plans being mulled by neighbouring Croatia to build a landfill site for radioactive waste at Trgovska Gora, near the border with Bosnia.

Bosnia-Herzegovin' s Foreign Trade and Economic Relations Minister Mirko Sarovic said, commenting on Pristina's measures, aimed also against goods from central Serbia, that there was no need to resort to countermeasures - but that BiH's response could be a request for the exclusion of Kosovo from agreements that guarantee free trade.

This was the assessment made on Tuesday in Belgrade by Serbia's Minister of Trade, Tourism and Telecommunications Rasim Ljajic and Minister of External Trade and Economic Relations of Bosnia-Herzegovina Mirko Sarovic.

Mirko Sarovic, Bosnia's Minister of Foreign Trade and Economic Relations, on Wednesday condemned Kosovo's decision to impose customs tariffs of 10 per cent on imports from Serbia and Bosnia, calling the move "intolerable".

Bosnia's recently adopted energy strategy is based on outdated ideas that could make it hard for the country to fulfil its international obligations on renewable energy and might increase the cost of electricity, an expert in the field says.

Bosnia fears the negative affect on its important metal industry if the EU faces an oversupply of steel and aluminium as a result of its trade dispute with the US.

Arcelor Mittal Zenica, Bosnia's larger steel exporter, believes joint efforts with Bosnia's government should secure free trade for Bosnia with the EU, which takes 30 per cent of its exports.