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The President of the Serb Republic (RS) Milorad Dodik said this, referring to the Serb entity in Bosnia-Herzegovina (BiH).

Steve Bannon, US President Donald Trump's former chief strategist who now says he wants to help right-wing populists come to power in Europe, hosted the nationalist prime minister of Bosnia's mainly Serb entity at his Washington home on Sunday, the Republika Srpska government said in a statement.

The assembly of Republika Srpska will hold a special session in August on the request of entity President Milorad Dodik – to annul a report on Srebrenica from 2004.

Banja Luka is the largest town in the Serb Republic (RS), the Serb entity in Bosnia-Herzegovina.

"There is some border there, that is temporary. RS President Milorad Dodik will, together with all of us, make en effort to erase it. That's not nationalism, but European integration," Predrag Markovic said in Banja Luka, addressing a congress of the Socialist Party (SP) of the RS.

Russia's ambassador to Bosnia, Petar Ivanov, and Milorad Dodik, the Bosnian Serb President, have criticised the UK for "meddling" in the October general election campaign" after Britain's Defence Secretary, Gavin Williamson, recently announced that the UK will send 40 extra military personnel to counter any "malign external influence" and to ensure "free and fair" general elections in Bosnia.

According to him, "certain politicians, and above all RS President Milorad Dodik, are abusing the migrant crisis to collect cheap political points."

"There is no secret plan to settle tens of thousand migrants in the RS, and even if someone made it, it cannot be implemented without me," Mektic told a press conference in Banja Luka.

Dacic in this way commented on RS President Milorad Dodik's statement that the RS and Serbia will become united.

Serbia, the minister continued, "respects the territorial integrity of Bosnia-Herzegovina and, of course, has special ties with the RS."

The article, "Is Bosnia heading back to the dark old days of the 1990," was published ahead of October elections in Bosnia-Herzegovina (BiH) and after Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's election rally in Sarajevo, whose host was the current chair of the tripartite Presidency of BiH, Bakir Izetbegovic.

"You saw what (Macedonian) Prime Minister Zaev said, an agreement between Macedonia and Greece is almost there, and they expect an invitation for NATO, and almost all other countries are already in NATO or going there," the leader of the opposition DS said during a security conference held in Montenegro, Beta reported, quoting the party.

The government of Republika Srpska on Sunday called for tighter control of Bosnia's state borders, closure of the borders to migrants and an increased police presence on frontiers.