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Ljubljana – Faris Kočan, a researcher at the Centre of International Relations at the Ljubljana Faculty of Social Sciences, believes the results of the general elections in Bosnia and Herzegovina available so far indicate time may have come for civic ideas as opposed to nationalism.

Milorad Dodik, the Bosnian Serb leader and Serbian member of the tripartite state presidency, will not be running for a second mandate in October, he has clarified.

Instead, Dodik, who has been sanctioned twice by the US and once by the UK, will be running for the post of president of Bosnia's Serb-majority entity, Republika Srpska.

"Erdogan is a great politician, really, and Turkey is a great power... I will try to talk to him and the Greeks," said Aleksandar Vui and reminded of the importance of the Washington agreement.
"If they start from September 1, until our agreement is valid, we have to defend ourselves," Vucic added.

Stoltenberg on Tuesday told a news conference Brussels, dedicated to a meeting of NATO defense ministers, that he would travel to Belgrade, Zagreb, and Ljubljana next week.

"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.

"Accession negotiations have already started and I expect that we can complete them by January of next year," Stoltenberg told reporters ahead of Wednesday's meeting of NATO defense ministers in Brussels.

"For Macedonia, there is no path to NATO other than accepting the agreement on changing the country's name," Stoltenberg added, Belgrade-based daily Blic reported on Tuesday.

"No one, in Europe, in the region and in the country, should try to open a Pandora's Box in Bosnia," the spokesman for Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Ambassador Ibrahim Kalin, said in an address during his visit to Bosnia. 

Friday's appointment of Sebija Izetbegovic, wife of the Bosniak member of the Bosnian Presidency, as director of the University Clinical Center of Sarajevo, UKCS, an important medical institute, has caused controversy in Bosnia.

Sebija, who has been director of the Abdulah Nakash hospital in Sarajevo since 2013, was elected at a session of the board of the UKCS on January 6.