Milorad Dodik

The Serbian Ministry of Foreign Affairs sent a protest note to Bosnia-Herzegovina late on Saturday, after the attack on Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic.

The incident took place in Srebrenica during a commemoration there.

Turkey's president and prime minister have released messages of peace on the 20th anniversary of the Srebrenica massacre.

8,000 Muslim men and boys were killed in the eastern Bosnian town of Srebrenica by Serb troops in 1995. The massacre in the town, which was declared by the United Nations a safe haven for civilians, was later defined as genocide by two international courts.

RS President Milorad Dodik has thanked Russian President Vladimir Putin and FM Sergei Lavrov for Russia's veto on a British draft on Srebrenica.

The proposed resolution was blocked in the UN Security Council on Wednesday.

The assembly of Bosnia's Serb-dominated entity, Republika Srpska, will hold a special session next week to vote on holding a referendum challenging the authority of Bosnia's High Representative and the state judicial institutions.

The session was requested by the Republika Srpska President, Milorad Dodik, who is launching the initiative for the second time in four years.

Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic should attend the commemoration in Srebrenica and stop supporting President of the Serb Republic (RS) Milorad Dodik.

This is what senior associate with the Democratization Policy Council in Berlin Bodo Weber has told the Belgrade-based daily Danas.

Merkel and Mogherini are expected to make separate visits to Bosnia this week, boosting hopes that the troubled reform agenda and the EU's latest initiative for the country could be resurrected.

"The upcoming days are critical for Bosnia and Herzegovina," the Bosnian Serb chairman of Bosnia's tripartite presidency, Mladen Ivanic, was quoted as saying by local media.

Milorad Dodik said on Sunday that UN's adoption of a British draft resolution on Srebrenica "would mark the disintegration of Bosnia-Herzegovina."

Milorad Dodik says that "no British resolution on Srebrenica is acceptable, as respects should be paid to all victims in Bosnia-Herzegovina."

"Efforts devoted to reconciliation among peoples" should be made, the president of the Serb entity, the RS, said on Thursday.

The government of Bosnia's Serb-dominated entity has halted an announced increase in electricity prices at the last moment after coming under fierce pressure from consumers, experts, unions, the opposition and even some members of the ruling parties.

"As a single mother, I was outraged," a resident of the northwestern town of Prijedor told BIRN on Thursday, about the plan.

Republika Srpska President Milorad Dodik proposed on Tuesday that a referendum challenging the authority of the state-level judiciary and Bosnia's top international official, the High Representative, should take place at the beginning of September.