Milorad Dodik

BANJALUKA - The results of the Republika Srpska Day referendum cannot be annulled, Chairman of the Bosnia and Herzegovina Presidency Mladen Ivanic said in Banjaluka Friday.

Only the consequences of the referendum can be annulled, Ivanic, the Serb member of the tripartite rotating presidency, told the Avaz.ba news portal.

BANJALUKA - The results of the Republika Srpska Day referendum cannot be annulled, Chairman of the Bosnia and Herzegovina Presidency Mladen Ivanic said in Banjaluka Friday.

Only the consequences of the referendum can be annulled, Ivanic, the Serb member of the tripartite rotating presidency, told the Avaz.ba news portal.

Slobodan Vaskovic, one of the most influential bloggers and journalists from Bosnia's Serb-led entity, Republika Srpska, and a prominent critic of RS President Milorad Dodik, has said he has left Bosnia because his life was in danger.

Donald Trump's victory has reinvigorated Republika Srpska, RS representatives in Washington as the shock development is being interpreted as a new opportunity for the entity, which already spends heavily on lobbying, to promote itself to US policymakers.

Bakir Izetbegovic has told Serb Republic (RS) President Milorad Dodik that he "better change his behavior, or be replaced."

Milorad Dodik, the President of Republika Srpska, is on a 10-day visit to China attending the Western China International Fair, where he will stay until November 14.

With Republika Srpska in an unenviable financial position, Dodik has undertaken the trip in search of financial support.

Former Croatian President Stjepan Mesic claimed on Monday that the leaders of Bosnia and Herzegovina's Serbs and Croats want to break up the country - a goal that could eventually lead to war.

The disputed public holiday of Bosnia's Serb entity, Republika Srpska, RS, is on the agenda again as the RS National Assembly votes on draft legislation to reinstate it after months of painful wrangling.

In a bid to unify and strengthen the embattled opposition Bosnian Serb party after its defeat in recent local elections, an extraordinary assembly of the Serbian Democratic Party, SDS, on Sunday unanimously elected Vukota Govedarica as the new chief.

"Bosniaks (Bosnian Muslims) are now making the same mistake the Serbs naively made in the former Yugoslavia," says Milorad Dodik.

As a result, "they have everyone against them," the president of the Serb entity in Bosnia-Herzegovina, the Serb Republic (RS), told the Croatian daily Vecernji List.