The Republic of Srpska

Today, in Belgrade, the Republic of Srpska Minister of the Interior, Mr Dragan Lukač, met with the Republic of Serbia Minister of the Interior, Mr Nebojša Stefanović. Joint fighting against organized crime was in focus of this meeting, and cooperation so far was assessed as successful. The conclusion was that information exchange and implementation of joint actions had contributed to detecting criminal offences and then prosecuting the persons who committed the criminal offences of organized crime. Ministers Lukač and Stefanović agreed that, in future, it was necessary to undertake additional concrete joint measures for more successful countering organized crime and organized criminal groups present in the region. At the meeting, migrant crisis was also discussed as well as measures implemented in this sense, since both the Republic of Srpska and the Republic of Serbia were facing the same issue. The participants of the meeting agreed that the issue of migrant crisis overcomes the solutions that could be offered by a single state and that joint response of all European countries affected by migran crisis was essential. Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE