Serbs of Bosnia and Herzegovina

Dodik convinced "genocide was committed against Serbs"

BELGRADE -- RS President Milorad Dodik stated on Tuesday that genocide was committed against Serbs in Croatia during the 1990s.

The leader of the Serb entity in Bosnia-Herzegovina added the ruling of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) "leaves a sense of injustice because of was done to Serbs."

BELGRADE - Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic and President of Republika Srpska (RS) Milorad Dodik conferred on Tuesday on current affairs, including plans of the international community for RS and Bosnia-Herzegovina (BiH).

Vucic, Dodik discuss "intl. community's plans for Bosnia"

BELGRADE -- Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic and President of the Serb Republic (RS) Milorad Dodik met in Belgrade on Tuesday and discussed "current affairs."

This included "plans of the international community" for the Serb entity (RS) and Bosnia-Herzegovina.

BELGRADE - Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic, Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic, and President of Republika Srpska Milorad Dodik watched together Tuesday a live broadcast of the reading of the judgment of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in a case where Croatia and Serbia accusse each other of genocide allegedly committed in Croatia during the 1991/95 war.

The Republika Srpska National Assembly on Tuesday was set to go ahead with a debate on changes to the law on peace and order after its Committee for European Integration and Regional Cooperation on Monday rejected calls for the law to be withdrawn from the agenda.

The UN's Yugoslav war crimes court on Jan. 30 upheld life convictions of two Bosnian Serbs for their role in the Srebrenica massacre of almost 8,000 Muslim men and boys in 1995.
      
The Appeal Chamber "affirms the life sentence" against former Bosnian Serb Vujadin Popovic, 57, and Ljubisa Beara, 75, Judge Patrick Robinson said at a hearing at the Hague-based tribunal.

Bosnia's tripartite Presidency agreed and signed a new version of a joint declaration expressing the country's interest in European integration and its readiness to undertake all required activities in line with the EU reform agenda.

Milorad Dodik, president of Republika Srpska, has told the French ambassador to Bosnia, Claire Bodonyi, that Bosnia's Serbian-dominated entity is preparing a "practical reply" to the EU reform plan for the country.

The Defence Ministry said that no rules were broken when Bosnian Army troops lined up alongside people dressed in Serb nationalist Chetnik uniforms at a religious ceremony in Banja Luka.

The call for the printing of money, made by Republika Srpska president Milorad Dodik, who is also the leader of the strongest Bosnian Serb party, the Alliance of Independent Social Democrats, triggered heated debates over the weekend.