BANJA LUKA, August 26 (FENA) - President of RS Milorad Dodik said today that he will invite Russia's President Vladimir Putin to Banja Luka to open the Serb-Russian center when the building's construction is completed.
"I believe he will find a reason to come," Dodik said.
The construction of the Serb-Russian center has not even begun yet, and according to earlier Dodik's announcements, Sergey Lavrov, Russia's Foreign Minister, will lay the foundation stone on September 17.
Dodik said in a statement to reporters in Manjača near Banja Luka that he is ready to meet with the next US ambassador, if, as he says, "Eric George Nelson wants it, of course, on the principle of full mutual respect."
Dodik expressed regret that Bosnia and Herzegovina forbade Russian writer Zahar Prilepin to enter the country. Prilepin, as Dodik said, was supposed to hold a literary evening in Banja Luka.
The guilty party for the banning of Prilepin to enter BiH according to Dodik are "the Serb representatives at the state level".
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