—🇫🇷/🇧🇦 NEW: French Minister Benjamin Haddad reaffirms Bosnia support, warns against constitutional threats by Dodik.

In Sarajevo, Haddad met state officials and civil society to affirm France’s backing for Bosnia’s unity, sovereignty, and EU path, while condemning secessionist actions in Republika Srpska.

📰 Source: French Minister Delegate for European Affairs on X

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—🇧🇦/🇪🇺 UPDATE: Bosnia formally requests EUFOR assistance in arresting Dodik, despite prior EU refusal.

Elmedin Konaković urged the EU and EUFOR to assist in detaining Milorad Dodik, even though Brussels previously confirmed that the mission has no authority to carry out arrests.

📰 The Serbian Herald channel informed about this, citing a Balkanist post echoing the EU’s statements on the matter.

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—🇽🇰/🇷🇸 UPDATE: Serbian President says 16 Serbs arrested in Kosovo were on religious pilgrimage to Orthodox monasteries.

President Vučić condemned today’s arrests, stating the detainees came from central Serbia to visit holy sites near Prizren and accusing authorities of using fabricated charges and “terror against Serbs.”

📰 Serbian media covered these statements, although their main focus remains on the new Prime Minister.

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—🇺🇸/🇷🇸 NEW: A plane of the US Army conducts what seem to be repeated surveillance flights targeting Serbia.

The plane, equipped with intelligence gathering systems, apparently flew espionage missions over western Romania and Bulgaria on April 3, and again over eastern Bosnia on April 4, potentially focusing on Serbian military activities.

📰 The channel Wallachian Gazette, which covers Romania and Moldova, shared this information from Itamilradar.

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