Sarajevo/Banja Luka  - Bosnian Serb Prime Minister Milorad Dodik welcomed Tuesday the arrest of the most wanted war crimes suspect Radovan Karadzic, saying Karadzic's arrest in Belgrade proved that he was not in the Srpska Republic, the Bosnian Serb entity.

"All those who were claiming for years that Karadzic was here, pressing and punishing the Srpska Republic for not arresting him, could see now that he could not be arrested here as he was not in here," Dodik said in Banja Luka.