Dodik: Vučić is my brother, there are no disagreements between us, there will not be and there must not be.

The leader of the Alliance of Independent Social Democrats (SNSD) and former President of Republika Srpska, Milorad Dodik, stated tonight that Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić is his "brother" and that there are no, will not and must not be any disagreements between them.

"Aleksandar Vučić is my brother and there are no disagreements between us, there will not be and there must not be. We are one people that no one will ever and cannot divide. And to those who wish for such a thing, I have only one message - you will not watch that film," Dodik told the Srna news agency.

He added that he "nurtures an even fiercer form of love for Serbia and that he thinks and feels that way."

"No one can make us quarrel. Aleksandar Vučić is the only one in the future who can ensure Serbia's true position in the international processes that await us in the multipolar world," he said, stating that claims that there has been a disagreement between Banja Luka and Belgrade are "just the pipe dreams of those who want to divide the Serbian people."

Media in BiH today reported Vučić's statement from Uzbekistan, where he is on an official visit, in which he reacted to Dodik's statement that his political career will not be determined by "neither the American nor the Brussels administration, nor Moscow nor Belgrade."

"I'm sorry if Banja Luka feels threatened by Belgrade, since we did our best to just keep quiet, listen and help and never interfered in anything in any way, but what can you do," Vučić said.

Stating that "the other night I saw in Banja Luka that they would not be ordered around by anyone from Belgrade," he assessed that "he has nothing against our people from Republika Srpska giving orders."

"I don't see any problem with that, and that's probably where we differ," Vučić said, adding that Belgrade "does not have that kind of complex and frustration."

It is obvious, he added, "that you are bothering everyone and that you have to be very weak so that they don't take you in their mouths."

"For me, as I said, Croatian media and Croatian politics are the best litmus test. Whoever Croats praise, know that he is not doing much good for the Serbian people," he said.

The Speaker of the National Assembly of Republika Srpska (RS) Nenad Stevandić also spoke out, saying that relations with Serbia are the most important for the future of RS and that they must therefore "be nurtured and protected with the greatest care."

"Nothing against Serbia or its leadership that has proven itself in helping Republika Srpska should ever be sent from our side of the Drina, whether out of luxury, vanity, or ignorance," Stevandić wrote on Iks.