Serb Republic

BELGRADE - The Serbian government on Thursday adopted conclusions under which Serbia and Republika Srpska will build two memorial centres to commemorate the victims of the Jasenovac death camp in the WWII-era Independent State of Croatia.

BELGRADE - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic received the US ambassadors to Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina, Christopher Hill and Michael Murphy, in Belgrade on Wednesday.

After the meeting, Vucic said he had had an open and substantial discussion with the ambassadors on all significant regional issues.

The Humanitarian Law Centre NGO said in a report published on Wednesday that in the summer of 1995, the Serbian Ministry of Internal Affairs forcibly mobilised around 10,000 refugees and took them back to territories under the control of the Bosnian Serb Army in Bosnia and the rebel Serb-run Army of the Republic of Serbian Krajina in Croatia.

"Serbia is not interfering in who will vote for whom, but what we are interfering in is the survival of the Serb Republic (RS) and the rights of the Serb people in this area," said Serbia's first deputy PM and foreign minister.

Brnabic spoke after meeting President and Prime Minister of the Serb entity in Bosnia-Herzegovina (RS) Milorad Dodik and Zeljka Cvijanovic.

Prva TV is reporting this on Thursday.

The man has second degree burns on 30 percent of his body. However, his wounds are not life threatening, the hospital said, confirming the incident.

It remains unclear how the patient, whose initials are P.M., managed to get a hold of a lighter or a box of matches.

Replying to Senator Tom Cotton, General Curtis Scaparrotti singled out Serbia as the greatest cause for concern in this context.

When asked, "Serbia or Republika Srpska" - i.e., Serbia or the Serb Republic, RS, the Serb entity in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Scaparrotti reiterated, "Serbia. "

The leader of the Serb entity in Bosnia-Herzegovina spoke at a ceremony marking Serbia's Statehood Day, held in this village where the decision was made in 1804 to launch an uprising against Ottoman Turks, occupying Serbia at the time.

Dodik said this place "sublimates in the best way the Serb nation's historic striving toward freedom."

The draft of a joint declaration of the RS and Serbia on the survival of the Serb people is nearly completed, with come nuances remaining to be done.

This was stated by the Dean of the Faculty of Law and a member of the team working on the text of the declaration, Sima Avramovic.

Presidents and prime ministers of Serbia and the Serb Republic (RS) are meeting on Friday in the Palace of Serbia in New Belgrade.

After Aleksandar Vucic, Milorad Dodik, Ana Brnabic, and Zeljka Cvijanovic conclude their meeting, the governments of Serbia and the RS - the Serb entity in Bosnia-Herzegovina - will hold a joint meeting.