SRNA News Roundup /I/- April 21, 2024

REPUBLIKA SRPSKA

BANJA LUKA, APRIL 21 /SRNA/ - President of Republika Srpska Milorad Dodik pointed out that the Serb people want to live in peace, in their Republika Srpska, for whose defense thousands of Serb heroes gave their lives. BANJA LUKA, APRIL 21 /SRNA/ - Republika Srpska National Assembly Speaker, Nenad Stevandić, said today that someone must tell part of the Sarajevo establishment that Srpska will never attack them and that the embassies and OHR are lying to them. VLASENICA, APRIL 21 /SRNA/ - Vlasenica has marked 32 years today since the liberation of this municipality in the Defensive-Patriotic War, from which more than 300 soldiers and civilians were killed, and a message was sent that a high price was paid for freedom that should be cherished . BELGRADE, APRIL 21 /SRNA/ - Bosniak sponsors are constantly feeling the pulse of Republika Srpska finding the moment to make the next move, but the people of Srpska have sent a warning to both Bosniaks and the West; this generation of the Republika Srpska leadership, headed by Milorad Dodik, has been worthy in defending the work of its founding fathers, political scientist Nenad Kecmanović told SRNA. BELGRADE, APRIL 21 /SRNA/ - The term genocide was invented to describe the crime of the Holocaust, and if the events from Srebrenica are called the same - those from the Second World War must get a new name, so it is not a question of mere semantics, but a definition and a name for the extermination of an entire people, which did not happen in Srebrenica, Professor Branislav Ristivojević pointed out when commenting on the pushed through initiative to pass a resolution on the genocide in Srebrenica in the UN General Assembly. BELGRADE, APRIL 20 /SRNA/ - His Holiness Patriarch Porfirije of Srebrenica expressed his concern and assessed as completely harmful the initiative to pass the resolution on Srebrenica in the UN General Assembly, without questioning the fact that all those who have committed any war crime should be brought to justice, announced the Serbian Orthodox Church /SOC/. BANJA LUKA, APRIL 21 /SRNA/ - Immunization coverage in Republika Srpska last year was lower than that required for collective immunity, said Jelena Đaković Dević, an epidemiology specialist at the Republika Srpska Public Health Institute. DOBOJ, APRIL 21 /SRNA/ - SDS leader, Milan Miličević, said today that due to the closing of the SDS account and the disabled payment transaction due to US sanctions, the party decided to refer the officials employed in that party to the Employment Office in order to achieve a certain part of personal income they are entitled to according to the law. DOBOJ, APRIL 21 /SRNA/ - The fourth stage of the Belgrade-Banjaluka international cycling race, in which 175 competitors from 40 countries are participating, started today from Doboj towards Banjaluka, and the leader's shirt is worn by Polish national Piotr Pekala, a member of the German team Santic - Wibatech team. BiH SARAJEVO, APRIL 21 /SRNA/ - SNSD Presidency member Staša Košarac said that the "Trojka" is a constant only in the calculation of part of the international community, but that Republika Srpska has nothing to do with it. SARAJEVO, APRIL 21 /SRNA/ - The deputy in the House of Peoples of the FBiH Parliament, Goran Broćeta, tells SRNA that the legalization of looting and expropriation of Serb-owned land across the FBiH continues, noting that Turks were trampling this very same land for 500 years, but it remained Serbs’. SERBIA NEW YORK, APRIL 21 /SRNA/ - Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić arrived in New York, where he will represent Serbia at tomorrow’s UN Security Council session, where the regular six-monthly report of UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres on UNMIK will be presented. BELGRADE, APRIL 21 /SRNA/ - The authorities of the temporary institutions of Priština organized a referendum for today in the north of Kosovo and Metohija on the dismissal of the Albanian mayor elected in the elections in April 2023 with the votes of about three percent of the Albanian voters. At the referendum on the recall of mayors of Albanian nationality in four Serbian municipalities in the north of Kosmet, only 85 voters voted by 11:00, the Central Election Commission announced. PRIŠTINA, APRIL 21 /SRNA/ - The explosion took place in the yard of a Serb - ownedan house in Korminjane, near Kosovska Kamenica, it is suspected that it was a hand grenade, the police of self-proclaimed Kosovo announced. REGION BELGRADE, APRIL 21 /SRNA/ - The Permanent Representative of Russia to the United Nations, Vasiliy Nebenzya, assessed that the danger of a new conflict, which is being provoked by Western countries, is looming over the Balkans, and emphasized that Russia is doing and will do everything in its power to thwart destructive plans of Western countries. WASHINGTON, APRIL 20 /SRNA/ - The Balkans are a powder keg because US President Joseph Biden does not show enough attention and leadership, said the former US special envoy for Belgrade - Priština dialogue, Richard Grenell. PODGORICA, APRIL 20 /SRNA/ - The conference of Serb national organizations of the countries of the region adopted in Podgorica a statement giving full and unreserved support to the institutions of Serbia and Republika Srpska in efforts to preserve peace, state stability and unity of the Serb people. VRLIKA, APRIL 21 /SRNA/ - Locals of the Serb populated Dalmatian village of Otišić in Vrlika cleaned yard of the Church of the Archangel Michael, which is in the phase of major renovation, for which about BAM 150,000 donor funds have been collected so far. BIJELJINA, APRIL 21 /SRNA/ - On April 22, 1945, the surviving inmates of the infamous Jasenovac Jasenovac camp tried to gain freedom in a desperate attack on the guards, but only 169 out of 1,073 succeeded.