Bijeljina

The Serb Republic (RS) president says that Serbia and this Serb entity in Bosnia are one - and it is therefore less important where the border "will be drawn."

"We do not recognize this border in our subconscious, but formally speaking in the international legal sense, it exists," Milorad Dodik said in Nevesinje.

Almost a year since Bosnia and Serbia agreed to build a highway linking their capitals, Bosnia's two entities remain in a deadlock over the route.

Currently the trip between Sarajevo and Belgrade takes some five hours by car.

The fast road is expected to cut travel time drastically and provide a link between the two countries, both physically and symbolically.

SARAJEVO - It is difficult to unite Western Balkan countries on political issues, but it is important that everyone agrees the economy is what can move the region forward, rather than backward, Serbian PM Aleksandar Vucic has told Bijeljina-based BN television.

After a five-day search resulted in the discovery of a corpse, the death of ten-year-old Konstantin Stijepic has been blamed on the reluctance of authorities in the Bosnian Serb entity to ask for help from counterparts in the country's Federation entity. 

BELGRADE - Republika Srpska (RS) President Milorad Dodik said in Belgrade Thursday he had discussed with Serbian PM Aleksandar Vucic implementation of joint infrastructure projects and construction of a motorway to better connect Serbia with the RS.

The appeals court in Belgrade acquitted Serb former volunteer fighter Miodrag Zivkovic of taking part in raping two women in the Bosnian town of Bijeljina in 1992.

Bosnia's state prosecution on Friday asked the state court, the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina, to detain Slobodan Pavlovic, the owner of Pavlovic Bank, for 30 days together with Petar Lazic, the former bank director, Ljiljana Garic, an employee in the department for credits and Blago Blagojevic, a former employee of Pavlovic's company Slobomir.

A Belgrade court acquitted former Serbian volunteer fighter Miodrag Zivkovic of raping two Bosniak women in the Bosnian town of Bijeljina during the war in 1992.

Police in Republika Srpska, the Serb-dominated entity of Bosnia, on Friday seized a huge quantity of flammable liquids, explosives and fireworks that were going to be used "in a possible terrorist attack".

The action took place at the Hotel Dallas in Janja, a village in northeast Bosnia.

The Serb Republic (RS) police have prevented a terrorist attack in Janja, near Bijeljina, the Srna agency was told at the Public Security Center in Bijeljina.

Janja is also some 40 kilometers away from the town of Zvornik, where a terrorist attack was carried out earlier this year against a police station, during which an officer was killed.