Alliance of Independent Social Democrats

RS leader: Srebrenica was "huge crime"

BELGRADE -- Milorad Dodik has said that the crime in Srebrenica "did not represent the struggle for Serbdom, but the biggest blow to Serbdom, and cowardice."

Furthermore, added the president of the Serb Republic (RS) entity in Bosnia-Herzegovina, "we need the truth that everyone will accept."

BELGRADE - Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic and President of Republika Srpska (RS) Milorad Dodik talked in Belgrade on Tuesday about the economic, social and political situation in Serbia and RS.

Milorad Dodik's public scolding of the well known Banja Luka journalist, Gordana Katana, has drawn strong criticism from local journalists.
 
The President of Republika Srpska - one of two entities in Bosnia - castigated Katana at a press conference over the weekend, after she asked him an alleged tycoon friend who had escaped a prison term.

After Bosnian leaders adopted a joint declaration pledging continued support for the EU integration process, the EU's Foreign Affairs Council on Monday activated the country's Stabilisation and Association Agreement, SAA.

Weeks of heated debate and the recent resignation of Bosnia's foreign trade minister have prompted Bosnia's tripartite presidency to say it opposed planned exports of ammunition to war-torn Ukraine.

The President of Bosnia's Serb-dominated entity, Republika Srpska, Milorad Dodik, will sign Bosnia's EU declaration, but only once it is debated by the entity assembly, scheduled for Wednesday, officials said.

Bosnian Serb opposition parties have accused the government of the entity and its ruling party, the Alliance of Independent Social Democrats, SNSD, of corruption and financial negligence after the Republika Srpska auditor presented a highly critical audit of the work of the entity's Ministry of Agriculture, Water and Forestry in 2013.
 

The assembly of Bosnia's Serbian-dominated entity, Republika Srpska, on Thursday adopted changes to the Law on Public Peace and Order, which opposition parties and some international rights organizations have called an attack on free speech.

The law was adopted with the votes of the ruling coalition led by the Alliance of Independent Social Democrats, SNSD, of Milorad Dodik. 

The assembly of Bosnia's mainly Serbian entity began discussing disputed changes to the law on public peace and order on Tuesday despite a walkout by opposition parties, which accused the government of trying to create a "totalitarian regime".

The Republika Srpska National Assembly on Tuesday was set to go ahead with a debate on changes to the law on peace and order after its Committee for European Integration and Regional Cooperation on Monday rejected calls for the law to be withdrawn from the agenda.