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Mladen Ivanic's press adviser said on Friday that the Serb member of Bosnia and Herzegovina's tripartite state presidency will call for Moscow ambassador Mustafa Mujezinovic to step down when the presidency holds its next session later this month.

However, the leader of the Serb entity in Bosnia-Herzegovina denied that he demanded spacial treatment when he was stopped on his way to the town of Karlovac.

The Banja Luka daily Nezavisne is reporting Dodik as saying that his car was moving at "over 180 kilometers per hour" - and that the fine was "astronomical."

BELGRADE - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said on Thursday Serbia would lend stronger support to various development projects in Republika Srpska and within Serb communities in Croatia, without endangering the territorial integrity of neighbouring countries or encroaching upon the rights of other nations.

Tanjug reported this on Friday, citing the daily Glas Srpske, published in the Serb Republic (RS), the Serb entity in Bosnia-Herzegovina.

The newspaper said it had seen the document that states the RS and Serbia will act jointly and in an organized manner to implement a series of measures to prevent the assimilation of the Serb people.

RS President Milorad Dodik on Thursday confirmed he will be a candidate for the elections to the three-member state presidency of Bosnia this autumn.

He was speaking to the RS news agency SRNA after meeting Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic in Belgrade, where he attended celebrations marking Serbia's statehood day.

But it will only be discussed after the local election in Belgrade, Vucic said on Thursday, according to Beta agency.

The leader of the Serb entity in Bosnia-Herzegovina spoke at a ceremony marking Serbia's Statehood Day, held in this village where the decision was made in 1804 to launch an uprising against Ottoman Turks, occupying Serbia at the time.

Dodik said this place "sublimates in the best way the Serb nation's historic striving toward freedom."

Vucic was speaking in historic Orasac, in central Serbia, during a ceremony marking the country's Statehood Day.

He pointed out that it was "even more important to preserve and renew our people, because it's all for nothing if we don't have people."

"For that, we need the support of each individual in Serbia," Vucic said, pointing out to "a dramatic drop in the birth rate."

Nevertheless, Dodik gave statements to the media, Croatia's daily Vecernji List is reporting.

The leader of the Serb entity in Bosnia-Herzegovina told RTL that the president of Serbia had brought "a message of peace to Croatia" and that it "seemed to him things could start getting better."

Milorad Dodik on Tuesday said he would cut Ramiz Salkic's salary by 20 per cent because the Bosniak [Muslim] Vice President of the Republika Srpska had "told notorious falsehoods that inflict inevitable damage on the RS's reputation".