Milorad Dodik

RS President Milorad Dodik has thanked Russian President Vladimir Putin and FM Sergei Lavrov for Russia's veto on a British draft on Srebrenica.

The proposed resolution was blocked in the UN Security Council on Wednesday.

The assembly of Bosnia's Serb-dominated entity, Republika Srpska, will hold a special session next week to vote on holding a referendum challenging the authority of Bosnia's High Representative and the state judicial institutions.

The session was requested by the Republika Srpska President, Milorad Dodik, who is launching the initiative for the second time in four years.

Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic should attend the commemoration in Srebrenica and stop supporting President of the Serb Republic (RS) Milorad Dodik.

This is what senior associate with the Democratization Policy Council in Berlin Bodo Weber has told the Belgrade-based daily Danas.

Merkel and Mogherini are expected to make separate visits to Bosnia this week, boosting hopes that the troubled reform agenda and the EU's latest initiative for the country could be resurrected.

"The upcoming days are critical for Bosnia and Herzegovina," the Bosnian Serb chairman of Bosnia's tripartite presidency, Mladen Ivanic, was quoted as saying by local media.

Milorad Dodik said on Sunday that UN's adoption of a British draft resolution on Srebrenica "would mark the disintegration of Bosnia-Herzegovina."

Milorad Dodik says that "no British resolution on Srebrenica is acceptable, as respects should be paid to all victims in Bosnia-Herzegovina."

"Efforts devoted to reconciliation among peoples" should be made, the president of the Serb entity, the RS, said on Thursday.

The government of Bosnia's Serb-dominated entity has halted an announced increase in electricity prices at the last moment after coming under fierce pressure from consumers, experts, unions, the opposition and even some members of the ruling parties.

"As a single mother, I was outraged," a resident of the northwestern town of Prijedor told BIRN on Thursday, about the plan.

Republika Srpska President Milorad Dodik proposed on Tuesday that a referendum challenging the authority of the state-level judiciary and Bosnia's top international official, the High Representative, should take place at the beginning of September. 

Bosnian Serb and Serbian leaders are using tensions over the UK proposal for a UN resolution on Srebrenica for their own political games, an international diplomat told Balkan Insight on Tuesday.

"This is a highly emotional issue ? and local leaders are again playing with fire," the diplomat said.

Milorad Dodik, Tomislav Nikolic, Aleksandar Vucic | Photo by Beta

Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic and Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic said on June 26 that Serbia is ready to give financial help to the Serbian-run entity in Bosnia, which faces a threat of bankruptcy.