Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic addressed the public after meeting in Banja Luka with the president of BiH’s Republika Srpska (RS) entity, Milorad Dodik, who was on Wednesday sentenced by the state court for non-compliance with the decisions of the High Representative of the international community in the country. Vucic said this is a "difficult day for the Serb people as a whole" because of an "unbelievable verdict" in a "very strange trial". He stated that he had made two requests to Dodik and that "Serbia will always help maintain peace but also stand by Republika Srpska."