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.

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.

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.

Leaders of Montenegro's opposition Democratic Front Andrija Mandic and Milan Knezevic will attend the lunch that the Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic will organize for Vladimir Putin. The Russian president will arrive in Serbia on Thursday to a formal visit.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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. This document is still in force and we would not give up on it,” Dodik told Vecernje Novosti.

Aleksandar Vucic says he is "looking forward to each encounter at the EU-Western Balkans summit in Sofia."

But, the president continued on Tuesday, he "doesn't expect particularly good news for our country."