A man stands with a Russian flag as he awaits the welcoming ceremony of Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina, September 21, 2018. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic
SARAJEVO (Reuters) - Russia supports the peace accords that ended Bosnia's war in the 1990s and the country's territorial integrity, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Friday amid a Bosnian Serb leader's calls for secession of a Serb-run region from Bosnia.
Lavrov arrived in Bosnia two weeks before Bosnia's national election, a visit described by local media as a show of support for Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik, even though the Russian said he was not making a recommendation as to who to vote for.
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