Milorad Dodik, the prime minister of the Republika Srpska, a semi-autonomous Serbian political entity in Bosnia and Herzegovina, said he and Israeli President Shimon Peres, with whom he met during his recent visit to Israel, “had a lot in common on all issues, particularly those relating to Turkey’s growing engagement in the Balkans,” as he spoke to reporters at a press conference in Banja Luka on Thursday.
During his three-day visit to Israel, Dodik met with Peres, Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman and the Patriarch Theophilos III of Jerusalem."
