Milorad Dodik

BELGRADE - Serbia is advocating regional peace and stability - and stability in Bosnia and Herzegovina - and all countries in the region should start seeking common interests, FM Ivica Dacic said Thursday.

BELGRADE - Over 100 Islamic extremists of Bosnian origin have returned to Bosnia and Herzegovina after taking part in the Syrian conflict, Bosnian Interior Minister Dragan Lukac said.

More than 5,000 polling stations opened Sunday at 7am as voters were urged to go out and cast ballots in Bosnia's local elections.

"There is no reason why, on October 2, you shouldn't take a small amount of time to go to the polling station and circle the option that suits you," Ahmed Santic, president of the Central Election Commission, CIK, told the media.

PALE - Republika Srpska President Milorad Dodik confirmed Wednesday he had received earlier in the day a summons for questioning by the Prosecutor's Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina over last Sunday's Republika Srpska Day referendum.

BANJALUKA - Republika Srpska President Milorad Dodik said in Banjaluka Tuesday he had still not received a summons for questioning by the Prosecutor's Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina in Sarajevo over the Republika Srpska Day referendum, adding that, once he got one, he would obey it.

BANJALUKA - Republika Srpska President Milorad Dodik announced in Banjaluka Thursday there would be more referendums in the Bosnian Serb republic, noting that they would be conducted electronically to facilitate the process.

All those having a registered residence in Republika Srpska for six months will be eligible to vote in the referendums, he said.

SARAJEVO - Republika Srpska President Milorad Dodik has been summoned for questioning as a suspect over the holding of Sunday's Republika Srpska Day referendum, the Fena news agency reported Monday.

The Prosecutor's Office confirmed to Fena Dodik had been summoned to testify in a case of non-execution of a decision of the Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

BANJALUKA - Sunday's referendum in Republika Srpska (RS) was about the RS Day, not about status, says RS President Milorad Dodik.

The RS will respond with referendums in situations where attempts are made to deprive it of its rights, Dodik said at a press conference in Banjaluka late Sunday, after which a reporter asked him whether a referendum on independence should be ruled out.

ZAGUBICA - The most significant result of the Republika Srpska (RS) referendum is that everything has gone peacefully, and the most important thing now is to ease tensions across the region, Serbian PM Aleksandar Vucic said Monday.

From the formal and legal point of view, "it is completely pointless for the Prosecution of Bosnia to summon only RS President Milorad Dodik for questioning."

This is according to Sinisa Karan, president of a commission the Serb entity, RS, set up to organize the RS Day referendum.