Referendums in Republika Srpska

BELGRADE - Serbia and Republika Srpska (RS) will on August 4 together commemorate the anniversary of the 1995 expulsion of Serbs from the then Srpska Krajina and Croatia, Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic said Thursday.

RS President Milorad Dodik has sent a letter to the UN secretary-general presenting his accusations against the judicial institutions of Bosnia-Herzegovina.

The letter was sent along with the Serb Republic's report to the UN Security Council - in which the Serb entity in Bosnia-Herzegovina gives its view of the situation in the RS and Bosnia-Herzegovina.

The plan to hold the referendum in Bosnia's Serb-dominated Republika Srpska entity - widely criticised as potentially divisive - appeared to be in disarray after only representatives of the ruling coalition turned up for a meeting on the issue called by President Milorad Dodik on Friday.

The decision of the authorities of Republika Srpska, Bosnia's Serb-dominated entity, not to consider people who do not work or study as permanent residents may have a major impact on Bosnia's demographic profile, experts claim.

Serbia and the Serb Republic (RS) will together mark the 75th anniversary of the establishment of the Independent State of Croatia (NDH) and of Jasenovac.

Beta agency reported this on Friday, saying that the announcement was made by Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic after this meeting in Belgrade with Milorad Dodik, the president of the Serb entity (RS) in Bosnia-Herzegovina.

Republika Srpska President Milorad Dodik yielded to growing internal and international pressure on Monday and announced he was postponing the disputed referendum which had threatened to raise ethnic tensions in the country.

The Bosnian Serb proposal to reform Bosnia's Constitutional Court caused a stir in the House of Representatives of parliament on Wednesday after the Constitutional Commission - in charge of examining the constitutionality of draft laws before they are submitted to the chamber - rejected it.

RS President Milorad Dodik says all conditions have been met to publish a decision on an upcoming referendum in the Official Gazette.

The Serb entity in Bosnia-Herzegovina (RS) plants to hold a plebiscite on the work of the Court and the Prosecution of Bosnia-Herzegovina.

The Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Serbia president believes the Serbian PM has put pressure on the president of the RS, the Serb entity in Bosnia.

In a resolution marking the 20th anniversary of Dayton peace agreement, European MPs urged Bosnia’s Serb-led entity Republika Srpska not to hold a referendum challenging the authority of the state judiciary.