35TH ANNIVERSARY OF NATIONAL ASSEMBLY TO BE MARKED IN PALE

BANJA LUKA, OCTOBER 24 /SRNA/ - The 35th anniversary of the Republika Srpska National Assembly will be solemnly marked in Pale today.

The event will be attended by Republika Srpska President Siniša Karan and Prime Minister Savo Minić.

The event will begin at 2:30 p.m. with a wreath-laying ceremony at the Sabornost Monument in Republika Srpska Creators' Square.

A ceremonial academy will be held at the Pale Cultural Center at 4:00 p.m.

A news conference is scheduled for 3:40 p.m., the Republika Srpska National Assembly announced.

The ceremony will also include a screening of the film Republika Srpska: Created in Peace, Defended in the Patriotic-Defensive War.

The Republika Srpska National Assembly was established on October 24, 1991, in Sarajevo, initially under the name Assembly of the Serb People in BiH.

The decision to establish the Assembly was made by ethnic Serbs elected to the Assembly of the then Socialist Republic of BiH in the multiparty elections held in the fall of 1990.

This legislative body made historic decisions concerning the survival of the Serb people, the proclamation of Republika Srpska, and the adoption of its first Constitution.