Interior Minister Ivica Dacic said on Sept. 5 in Banja Luka that Serbia and Republika Srpska were examples which confirmed that the international community continued to apply different standards across the territory of the former Yugoslavia.

He said that in the internal issues of Republika Srpska and Serbia one could see that different standards were applied and that some international actors defended the territorial integrity of an independent Kosovo, while having previously destroyed the territorial integrity of Serbia.

"And when Republika Srpska simply makes mention of a referendum or thinks about separating from Bosnia and Herzegovina, we again return to the principle of maintaining territorial integrity," Dacic told journalists following a meeting with Republika Srpska Prime Minister Milorad Dodik.

He added: "Republika Srpska can count on the absolute support of Serbia as far as political stances related to maintaining [territorial integrity] are concerned."

Dodik said that Serbian representatives in Bosnia's joint institutions would not agree to recognizing Kosovo's independence.

He said that it was "completely unacceptable" for Bosniak representatives to not want to support the Serbian resolution connected to Serbia's territorial integrity in the U.N. General Assembly, stating that these were "double standards" as Bosnia was at the same time supporting its own territorial integrity.

Dacic and Deputy Prime Minister Jovan Krkobabic attended the electoral convention of the Socialist Party of Republika Srpska and the Party of United Pensioners of Republika Srpska in Banja Luka.