Željka Cvijanović

Rajko Vasic, former general secretary of the Alliance of Independent Social Democrats, SNSD, rocked Bosnia's political scene over the weekend with a blog post that urged the party's leader Milorad Dodik to step down.

After last week's visit by the German and British foreign ministers, Bosnian leaders are mulling over a new text for the declaration that is supposed to set in motion a new EU plan for the troubled country, although two Serb political blocs are still in dispute over the issue. 
 

BELGRADE - Serbia's Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic sent on Friday Republic Day greetings to Republika Srpska (RS), the Serb entity in Bosnia-Herzegovina, with wishes for even better relations between Serbia and RS.

Vucic sent the greetings to RS President Milorad Dodik and Prime Minister Zeljka Cvijanovic.

PM sends greetings on Serb Republic Day

BELGRADE -- Aleksandar Vucic sent on Friday greetings to officials of the Serb Republic (Republika Srpska, RS), as the Serb entity in Bosnia-Herzegovina is marking its day.

The Serbian prime minister said he wished for even better relations between Serbia and the RS."

Serb Republic is no "accidental whim" - Dodik

BANJA LUKA -- President of the Serb entity in Bosnia-Herzegovina, the Serb Republic (RS), Milorad Dodik has said that the RS is "not an accidental whim."

Bosnian Serb entity gets new government

BANJA LUKA -- The Serb Republic (RS) has a new government, headed by Zeljka Cvijanovic, who has embarked on her second term as prime minister.

BANJALUKA - Republika Srpska (RS) has a new government, headed by Zeljka Cvijanovic, who has embarked on her second term as prime minister.

At a parliamentary session that ended late Wednesday, 44 MPs voted for the government and 37 voted against. Also elected were the deputy parliament speakers, the RTRS reported.

"Even Serbia and Russia wouldn't recognize RS"

VIENNA -- Chairman of the Bosnia-Herzegovina Presidency Mladen Ivanic says he is confident that "not even Serbia would not recognize the possible independence of the RS."

Milorad Dodik, head of the Alliance of Independent Social Democrats, SNSD - the main Serbian party in Bosnia's Republika Srpska entity - met Mirko Pavic and Petar Djokic, of the Democratic Peoples Alliance and the Socialist Party respectively, to divide up ministries in the new entity government.

After Dodik was named president of Republika Srpska and his party, the Alliance of Independent Social Democrats, SNSD, secured a majority in the entity's assembly, he proposed incumbent premier Cvijanovic to head the new government on Sunday. 

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