Mladen Ivanić

As Bosnia starts preparing for autumn general elections, only one candidate's name is known for now, that of Mladen Ivanic.

The current member of Bosnia's state presidency will be the candidate of the main opposition bloc in the country's mainly Serbian entity, Republika Srpska, the Alliance for Changes.

BERLIN - The Serb member of the Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) Presidency, Mladen Ivanic, has told Deutsche Welle in an interview that BiH would not recognise Kosovo as long as he was a Presidency member and that he would not support a referendum on independence of Republika Srpska (RS).

BELGRADE - Bakir Izetbegovic's statement that Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) will recognise Kosovo's independence reflects the "hypocrisy of Sarajevo's policy", Mladen Ivanic, the Serb member of the BiH Presidency, told Tanjug on Monday.

Bosnia's potential recognition of the independence of Kosovo will not happen and the issue is closed, Mladen Ivanic, the Serbian member of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina, said on Wednesday.

Bosnia's House of Representatives voted on Thursday to dismiss deputy defence minister Sead Jusic, who was accused of breaching the law for agreeing to allow a Bosnian Army presence at January's anniversary celebration of the establishment of Bosnia's Serb-dominated entity Republika Srpska despite a Constitutional Court ban.

The restitution of Jewish property seized in occupied Bosnia during WWII is too complex to implement, said the chairman of the country’s presidency, Mladen Ivanic.

BELGRADE - Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic and PM Aleksandar Vucic meet in Belgrade on Wednesday with Republika Srpska President Milorad Dodik and Bosnia and Herzegovina Presidency Chairman Mladen Ivanic.

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Serbian and Bosnian Serb leaders have agreed to maintain "daily communication" after the announcement of a revision of Bosnia's genocide lawsuit against Serbia.

Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic and PM Aleksandar Vucic will meet with RS President Milorad Dodik and Bosnia-Herzegovina Presidency Chairman Mladen Ivanic.

The meeting will be held in Belgrade on Wednesday, starting at 14:00 CET, it was announced late on Tuesday, Tanjug reported.

Lawmakers from Bosnia's two largest Serb-led parties boycotted Thursday's session in the state parliament because of what they described as a constitutional crisis over a proposed appeal against the 2007 judgment in Bosnia and Herzegovina's case against Serbia at the International Court of Justice.