Zeljka Cvijanovic

The Republika Srpska interior ministry will sign a new cooperation agreement with the State Investigation and Protection Agency (SIPA) on Wednesday after strong international criticism of the Serb authorities' decision last week to cut ties and ban the state-level police body from the entity.

Dragan Cavic, an opposition leader in Republika Srpska, on Friday said the opposition parties will launch an initiative to dismiss Prime Minister Zeljka Cvijanovic, after foreign forensic experts allegedly confirmed the authenticity of an audio recording linking Cvijanovic to a bribery scandal.

A meeting of presidents and prime ministers of Serbia and the Serb Republic (RS) started at noon on Friday ahead of a joint session of two governments.

EU Enlargement Commissioner Johannes Hahn cancelled his visit to the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo after leaders of Bosnia's Serb-dominated entity of Republika Srpska refused to sign the action plan on reforms aimed to unblock EU integration and secure new funding from international financial institutions.

The Republika Srpska, RS, government during a special session held on Wednesday has decided to overhaul its tattered pension system. 

"There are problems with pensions and I never denied that," RS Premier Zeljka Cvijanovic told a press conference after the session.

The European Integration and Regional Cooperation Board of the assembly in Republika Srpska - Bosnia's mainly Serbian entity - rejected two draft laws on Monday that the assembly was due to debate on Tuesday.

Trade unions and NGOs claimed the two draft laws on public gatherings and non-proft organisations aimed to further increase political control in the entity.

BANJALUKA - Republika Srpska (RS) President Milorad Dodik and OSCE Chairperson-in-Office and Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic have condemned the April 27 terrorist act in which one Republika Srpska police officer was killed and two others were wounded in an attack on a police station in Zvornik.

Serb entity "has right to defend itself" - Dodik

BANJA LUKA -- The government of the Serb Republic (RS) has condemned in the strongest terms the terrorist attack on a police station in the town of Zvornik.

One policeman was killed and two others wounded in the attack on Monday evening.

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).

BANJA LUKA - Republika Srpska's (RS) Prime Minister Zeljka Cvijanovic and Serbia's Ambassador to Bosnia-Herzegovina (BiH) Stanimir Vukicevic discussed political and economic topics in RS and the region in Banja Luka on Monday.