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Dodik: A single response of Republic of Srpska and Serbia to all challenges (BETA, SRNA, TV N1)

Republic of Srpska (in Bosnia and Herzegovina) and Serbia will continue to act together and give a single response to all challenges, Chairman of Bosnian Presidency and Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik said on Thursday following a meeting with the President of Serbia Aleksandar Vucic, BETA news agency reported. According to SRNA news agency, the two leaders met to discuss the strategic issues related to the survival of the Serb people. The meeting was held without prior notice. “Any attempts to humiliate Serbia, its state and national interests are unacceptable today.

Dodik says Serbia important for regional stability (BETA, TV N1)

Bosnia-Herzegovina Presidency Chairman Milorad Dodik told a joint news conference with President Aleksandar Vucic in Belgrade that Serbia is the most important element of stability, security and development in the region, adding everyone in his country should realize that, BETA news agency reports. Speaking after a meeting with Vucic, Dodik said that Serbia is ready to select, and finance projects proposed by BiH Federation. People in Bosnia-Herzegovina have to understand that Serbia is the most important element of stability and security as well as development in the region.

Dodik: I consider Kosovo internal matter of Serbia (Tanjug, Radio KIM)

Chairman of Bosnia and Herzegovina Presidency Milorad Dodik said in Brussels he respects the territorial integrity of Serbia and considers Kosovo as Serbia’s internal matter, Tanjug news agency reports. Following the meeting with EU Commissioner Johannes Hahn and presidents of European Commission and European Council, Jean-Claude Juncker and Donald Tusk, Dodik stated topics of discussion included B&H European integration and the situation in the region. “Republic of Srpska and I would follow Belgrade’s stance.

BiH Presidency Member from Republika Srpska Mladen Ivanic: I'm pleased that Pacolli did not come to Banja Luka (Serbian media)

BiH Presidency Member from Republika Srpska (RS) Mladen Ivanic says today that that he is not dissatisfied at all, as far as he is concerned, that Kosovo Foreign Minister Behgjet Pacolli did not come to Banja Luka to an informal meeting of the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the South East European Cooperation Process (SEECP), reports Serbian media. Participants in the process of co-operation have been identified by members of the SEECP, and adds that Pristina has been a member of this process since 2014, along with, as he points out, the consent of all. "The fact that the two acquaintances,

Kosovo FM cancels the trip to Bosnia (N1)

Kosovo Foreign Minister, Behgjet Pacolli, cancelled his trip to Banja Luka, after “threats and obstacles” he encountered following the invitation to attend a meeting of the regional foreign ministers in that Bosnian city, the minister said on Tuesday.

Pacolli was invited to attend the informal meeting of foreign ministers of the South-East Europe Cooperation Process (SEECP) in Bosnia's northwestern city of Banja Luka, but his presence was strongly objected to by Republika Srpska (RS) President Milorad Dodik.

Dodik Says Kosovo Minister is Unwelcome in Bosnia (Balkan Insight)

The Bosnian Serb leader has condemned the visit this week to Bosnia of Behgjet Pacolli, Kosovo's Foreign Minister, for a regional cooperation meeting. Bosnian Serb President Milorad Dodik has said the announced visit of Kosovo Foreign Minister Pacolli to Banja Luka – for Wednesday's gathering of foreign ministers of member states of the South East European Cooperation Process, SEECP – is not acceptable. "Republika Srpska did not give consent for Bosnia to recognize the Kosovo so-called minister of that false country, who cannot be welcomed in Republika Srpska," Dodik said on Monday. See at:

Dodik: Serbia should ask for northern Kosovo (Blic)

President of Republika Srpska, Milorad Dodik, in an interview to Belgrade-based daily Blic spoke, inter alia, about the issue of Kosovo.  Q: The issue of Kosovo and its solution are in the focus again. How do you look at what is happening now? Dodik: “Vucic managed to restore Kosovo as a topic, because it was lost, outdated, pushed aside, people were uninterested. Now we have come to a position that perhaps we can do something. A fortunate set of circumstances is the shift in the political processes in the EU and America.

Dodik: If Kosovo enters UN, Republic of Srpska would ask for seat (Vecernje Novosti, Tanjug, B92)

If Kosovo becomes a member of the UN and other international institutions, Banjaluka would request the same, President of Republic of Srpska Milorad Dodik told Belgrade-based daily Vecernje Novosti. “The Assembly of Srpska adopted resolution, saying that in case of establishing of a new international principle and practice in recognizing the right to self-determination, we would insist on determining our state status.