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According to him, "certain politicians, and above all RS President Milorad Dodik, are abusing the migrant crisis to collect cheap political points."

"There is no secret plan to settle tens of thousand migrants in the RS, and even if someone made it, it cannot be implemented without me," Mektic told a press conference in Banja Luka.

Dacic in this way commented on RS President Milorad Dodik's statement that the RS and Serbia will become united.

Serbia, the minister continued, "respects the territorial integrity of Bosnia-Herzegovina and, of course, has special ties with the RS."

The article, "Is Bosnia heading back to the dark old days of the 1990," was published ahead of October elections in Bosnia-Herzegovina (BiH) and after Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's election rally in Sarajevo, whose host was the current chair of the tripartite Presidency of BiH, Bakir Izetbegovic.

"You saw what (Macedonian) Prime Minister Zaev said, an agreement between Macedonia and Greece is almost there, and they expect an invitation for NATO, and almost all other countries are already in NATO or going there," the leader of the opposition DS said during a security conference held in Montenegro, Beta reported, quoting the party.

The government of Republika Srpska on Sunday called for tighter control of Bosnia's state borders, closure of the borders to migrants and an increased police presence on frontiers.

The 21st International Economy Fair in Mostar, intended to boost economic cooperation between Balkan states, will be opened on Tuesday by President Aleksandar Vucic of Serbia, which is a partner in this year's event.

Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik, described Kosovo as a question for all Serbs and said that the issue of Bosnia's mainly Serbian entity, Republika Srpska, should be discussed along with the question surrounding Kosovo.

Pro-Russian politicians from the Balkans have congratulated Vladimir Putin after he won more than 74 per cent of the vote in Sunday's presidential elections - while leaders of some other Balkan countries more closely aligned with NATO remained silent.

This is according to Serb Republic (RS) President Milorad Dodik.

"I don't hide it, I think it's natural, and that in the end this political nature will win. That can't be stopped, that has been stopped until now, until now it had been a taboo," he told TV Pink.

The local authorities in Srebrenica will present an honour to Republika Srpska President Milorad Dodik, angering Bosniak war victims because of his refusal to classify the 1995 massacres as genocide.