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[00:00:18] Good afternoon, dear viewers, events
[00:00:23] to protect maritime routes in of the day. A large fire in the area of
[00:00:26] Konjic is not yet under control.
[00:00:31] The Main Board of the Union of the New Zenica Steelworks demands from
[00:00:35] the company's management the payment of severance pay to all
[00:00:38] workers by August
[00:00:40] 10th.
[00:00:43] New hearings of associates of the Srebrenica Memorial Center,
[00:00:47] the center offers legal aid for current and former
[00:00:49] associates.
[00:00:55] A large fire in the area of Konjic is not yet under
[00:00:59] control. The situation is more difficult in the area of
[00:01:02] the settlements of Kanjina and Živašnica where the fire
[00:01:05] threatens residential buildings.
[00:01:26] Firefighters and locals fought the fire during the night, but...
[00:01:30] Inaccessible terrain and demanding conditions further hinder
[00:01:34] the fight against the fire. In some places, the fire has approached houses
[00:01:37] to within a hundred meters, and today, a helicopter of the armed
[00:01:41] forces of Bosnia and Herzegovina, as the fire.
[00:01:44] well as a helicopter of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Zenica-Doboj Canton, are engaged in extinguishing
[00:01:48] The Ministry of Defense states that this is one of the most complex
[00:01:52] tasks performed by members of the air force brigade
[00:01:55] and air defense due to the inaccessible
[00:01:59] terrain and working conditions. Additional difficulties
[00:02:02] are created by dense smoke above the fire site, which hinders aerial
[00:02:06] extinguishing.
[00:02:09] Very, very difficult situation, you see that we are fighting the fire here to save residential
[00:02:13] buildings, that is our priority today to save, so
[00:02:16] after we save residential buildings, they will start working, it seems to me that
[00:02:20] bigger tractors are working from Mostar, armed forces from Zenica
[00:02:23] Doboj Canton, civil protection, it's a difficult
[00:02:26] situation, we have, you see, there are still residential
[00:02:30] buildings in question, the situation on
[00:02:33] all fire fronts, the fire front up towards Džepska
[00:02:36] mountain, here on the right and left flank, the fire is really
[00:02:40] spreading abnormally, it's a very, very difficult situation, how many
[00:02:43] people are currently on the ground, we have somewhere with a professional fire brigade, a voluntary
[00:02:47] fire department in Konjic, forestry, currently around
[00:02:50] 35 people on
[00:02:54] the ground, I was there last night, there was nothing dangerous, it was
[00:02:57] burning below Kanjina and and I am here
[00:03:01] above the train station, above the tracks, I have it here so I can see what
[00:03:05] the situation is, yesterday morning they said that the fire appeared in
[00:03:09] three places, Ovčari and Kanjina, it wasn't there until
[00:03:12] last night, I think, something was around
[00:03:16] eight, that it had already spread here, it was burning there all
[00:03:19] day, it wasn't really here, there was a little smoke, but not
[00:03:22] too much, then at night, around 3:30
[00:03:26] it went completely up to this house, the firefighters were
[00:03:29] here..." it went out this morning when I woke up around
[00:03:33] seven, it went all the way down to that house up there,
[00:03:37] it was contained, it went out, they went now it has gone up there, now I don't know what's
[00:03:40] up there, I haven't been there and
[00:03:44] that's it, what is this, we don't even know ourselves what
[00:03:47] happened yesterday, was your house in
[00:03:50] danger yesterday night, yes, yes, yes, there was
[00:03:54] danger because there is this hill up there, the hill had
[00:03:57] come down close to
[00:03:58] that's all for this news overview, thank you for the house, it was dangerous for us. really, so do
[00:04:02] you expect this fire to be extinguished by when? Well, I expect
[00:04:06] the authorities to succeed and help us, because
[00:04:10] we are really in danger, we are worried.
[00:04:12] The Main Board of the Union of the New
[00:04:16] Zenica Steelworks demands from the company's management the payment of
[00:04:19] severance pay to all workers by August 10th of this
[00:04:22] year, and if that does not happen, they announce protests on August
[00:04:26] 11th in front of the administrative building and a shutdown in the plants.
[00:04:31] we have a noose around our neck,
[00:04:34] uh, bankruptcy, and simply let's try, right, to
[00:04:38] solve one problem before it comes, but
[00:04:42] as I say, we still don't know, we are not, we are not in our heads,
[00:04:46] judge, so we will see if it will come to that, but
[00:04:50] let's try, right, to take a step forward
[00:04:53] to be,
[00:04:56] what we currently have on the scene is one...
[00:05:00] a different way of fighting what the union advocates,
[00:05:04] i.e., for the continuation of production and the preservation of jobs,
[00:05:06] that
[00:05:08] is, to completely shift this situation, or rather, the responsibility
[00:05:12] for the entire situation to the
[00:05:14] union, which is, to put it mildly,
[00:05:18] incorrect and we are all
[00:05:21] aware that the management's responsibility is enormous, and
[00:05:24] my colleague mentioned, and you followed it during
[00:05:28] the past months, what was all promised, in what proportion
[00:05:31] what renaissance regarding the new
[00:05:34] Zenica Steelworks, here we are in a situation
[00:05:37] to think about
[00:05:41] bankruptcy, i.e., dismissal. agreement for all
[00:05:43] workers,
[00:05:45] ultimately, as a result of all that, we have this situation we have
[00:05:49] today. The next session should decide
[00:05:53] on the proposal for the bankruptcy of the new Zenica Steelworks
[00:05:56] which was submitted by the management of the new Zenica Steelworks
[00:06:00] on December 17th,
[00:06:02] 2025.
[00:06:04] Their intention was for that bankruptcy to start already from the new
[00:06:07] year, well, thank God, thanks to
[00:06:11] the activities... of the union and drawing attention to the importance of the Zenica
[00:06:14] Steelworks, here we are still alive today and people are
[00:06:18] employed, they received seven salaries in the past period, they received regression
[00:06:22] monetary aid according to the collective agreement, all
[00:06:24] rights, if the court makes
[00:06:28] a decision on opening bankruptcy proceedings, this will result in
[00:06:31] the termination of all employment
[00:06:34] contracts, meaning for all 1480 workers currently
[00:06:38] employed. Two of the 11 Zenica
[00:06:42] miners of the Zenica Brown Coal Mine
[00:06:46] were forced to leave the Raspotočje pit due to poor health,
[00:06:50] where they had spent three
[00:06:53] nights. Two miners became ill, after which they left
[00:06:56] the pit accompanied by Union President Nedžad
[00:06:59] Duraković. Emergency medical services intervened and one of the miners
[00:07:03] was transported to the Zenica cantonal hospital, while the other
[00:07:06] miner's health condition improved, and he wants to
[00:07:09] return to the pit. The miners continue their protest. due to
[00:07:12] unpaid salaries for May and June, as of yesterday, they are once again
[00:07:16] temporarily able to certify their health
[00:07:18] insurance cards.
[00:07:21] In Srebrenica Police Station today, another four people
[00:07:25] connected to the Srebrenica Memorial Center were interrogated, increasing the number of those
[00:07:29] interrogated so far to seven, while the list of persons to be
[00:07:32] interrogated totals
[00:07:35] 26. The representative of the Memorial Center, Edin Nikanović,
[00:07:39] stated that today statements were given by three people who had previously collaborated
[00:07:43] with the Memorial Center and one current associate, and that the
[00:07:46] interrogations were conducted in the presence of lawyers. He announced
[00:07:50] that the Memorial Center, in consultation with the legal team and
[00:07:53] lawyer, will consider further steps regarding
[00:07:56] the interrogations.
[00:08:06] US President Donald Trump publicly acknowledged that stockpiles of certain
[00:08:10] types of ammunition and missiles in the United States
[00:08:13] have been reduced, but claims that the military is still extremely strong.
[00:08:17] According to reports, the military during the war with Iran spent almost four
[00:08:21] fifths of its stock of Tad missiles and half
[00:08:24] of its Patriot interceptors. Trump sharply condemned the leakage
[00:08:27] of this information to the media, calling it a threat
[00:08:30] to national security. Due to reduced stockpiles and concerns
[00:08:34] of allies in the Gulf, the American President ordered the Justice
[00:08:38] Department to investigate, while demanding an immediate increase from the defense industry.
[00:08:51] that we have unlimited virtual unlimited supply, we have
[00:08:54] others where it's a little bit tighter, we have certain types
[00:08:58] of munitions which are very, they may not
[00:09:01] be as accurate, they may not be, they're not as elite, we
[00:09:05] have elite to, but we're we're watching
[00:09:08] that very closely, but we have certain types
[00:09:11] which are... very powerful and very
[00:09:14] good, and we have an unlimited supply,
[00:09:18] and so we're in great shape, but uh, with that being
[00:09:21] said, we always want more, we have to have more,
[00:09:25] we have other things maybe come up, you maybe come up and maybe don't come up,
[00:09:28] hopefully nothing else does come up, but we're in very good shape, we
[00:09:31] have literally massive amounts of
[00:09:33] ammunition,
[00:09:37] Donald Trump's peace committee issued the first contract for the reconstruction of Gaza
[00:09:40] which foresees the construction of a small military base for 150 Moroccan
[00:09:44] soldiers as part of international stabilization forces. The project
[00:09:48] was awarded to the American company Arkel International
[00:09:51] and will be built in an area under the control of the Israeli army, although
[00:09:55] complete reconstruction and the New Gaza project were previously announced.
[00:09:58] The plan has been reduced to a miniature pilot project. In
[00:10:02] the meantime, most of the two million residents of Gaza continue to live
[00:10:05] in difficult conditions in camps without access to
[00:10:08] drinking water, while Amnesty International warns of thousands
[00:10:12] of bodies trapped
[00:10:13] under the rubble.
[00:10:17] Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Pakistan today in Jeddah
[00:10:20] signed a key trilateral defense
[00:10:23] agreement. For closer military coordination, the agreement covers
[00:10:27] intelligence sharing, joint military exercises, and
[00:10:31] cooperation in the defense industry. The pact combines
[00:10:34] the economic power of Saudi Arabia, the military technology of Turkey as a NATO
[00:10:38] member, and the nuclear potential of Pakistan.
[00:10:41] The agreement comes as a direct response to the escalating conflict between the US
[00:10:45] and Iran and aims
[00:10:48] the Red Sea and the Strait of Hormuz.
[00:10:50] At least seven people
[00:10:53] died in Thailand when
[00:10:56] a fourteen-year-old student carried out a deadly attack in a prestigious
[00:11:00] high school near Bangkok. The boy first
[00:11:03] killed his grandparents in the family home, then used his
[00:11:07] grandfather's pistol to kill teachers and students at school,
[00:11:10] after which he took his own life. More than 15
[00:11:14] people were injured, while frightened students saved themselves by locking themselves in
[00:11:17] classrooms and escaping over the fence. The motive for the crime is not
[00:11:21] yet known.
[00:11:27] I saw that he used a 9mm caliber pistol, in
[00:11:30] the bag he carried over his shoulder he had a pistol
[00:11:33] magazine and about 20 to 30 more bullets, when I arrived
[00:11:37] there was complete chaos, the students we found
[00:11:40] outside were also wounded in the back, chest
[00:11:44] and arms, we provided them with first aid, the student
[00:11:47] was still
[00:11:49] shooting at that moment.
[00:12:36] Bojan Lipovšćak brings the weather forecast.
[00:12:40] Good day, what weather awaits us today until the end of
[00:12:44] the day? The cold front is located
[00:12:47] north of the Alps, a smaller part of it has passed over the Alpine
[00:12:51] barrier, it was bypassed by a small amount of unstable
[00:12:55] air that penetrated over the northern Adriatic
[00:12:58] and over the northwestern parts of the
[00:13:02] interior of the Balkans. That
[00:13:05] cold front will pass very quickly north of
[00:13:09] the Alps and will not bring a significant change in weather for
[00:13:12] us. For now, we will have sunny and stable weather.
[00:13:16] Namely, behind the cold front, the ridge
[00:13:19] of the anticyclone strengthens
[00:13:22] and the weather stabilizes again. So this is a short
[00:13:25] transient small bite, a bite of
[00:13:28] winter, which only interrupted
[00:13:30] the heatwave in places. Today we will
[00:13:34] mostly have sunny weather with moderate to
[00:13:38] strong development of daily cloudiness, so
[00:13:41] only occasional showers and
[00:13:44] thunderstorms are possible. The highest daily temperatures will
[00:13:48] be high, hot, above
[00:13:51] 30°C, in Herzegovina up to
[00:13:54] 38°C.
[00:13:57] The sea is very warm,
[00:13:59] 28°C, so
[00:14:01] it is very pleasant for swimming, and
[00:14:05] the ultraviolet index is
[00:14:07] also high and very high. On the Adriatic, the scirocco will blow,
[00:14:11] while in the northern part of the Adriatic, the bora will blow.
[00:14:14] You can follow more about the weather on our info
[00:14:18] našim info
[00:14:19] channels,
[00:14:23] your attention, goodbye.
[00:14:45] A new day begins. Sponsor of the show:
[00:14:47] Medicana Health
[00:14:49] Group.
[00:14:59] The announced miners' protest for today has been canceled after an agreement
[00:15:02] was reached yesterday on solving the problem of health
[00:15:06] insurance for miners from the Zenica-Doboj
[00:15:09] Canton, but the miners' problems are far
[00:15:13] from solved, debts remain, working conditions, the question
[00:15:16] of the future of the mines, perhaps most importantly, what will happen to
[00:15:19] miners in the process of energy transition, about that, but also about
[00:15:23] the situation in the defense industry and other important topics from his
[00:15:26] department, we talk with the Federal Minister of Energy and
[00:15:30] Mining, but also Industry, Vedran Lakić, good morning to you, thank you very much for
[00:15:33] taking the time, good morning to you, thank you for the invitation, mm, here... a small
[00:15:37] reminder of course of how yesterday only temporarily
[00:15:40] solved the problem of miners related to health
[00:15:43] insurance, however, the Health Insurance Institute also
[00:15:47] invites you and the government to additional negotiations, they say
[00:15:50] that a more sustainable model must be found very soon, that at
[00:15:54] some, as they stated, of the meetings that were expected to happen in these
[00:15:58] previous days, it seems to me that they say you were not present, what is
[00:16:02] it that you can, will you plan
[00:16:04] to do regarding this issue in the coming period? Well, it's
[00:16:08] not true that there were no meetings, I was certainly at three or
[00:16:12] four meetings and directly communicated with the director of the Health
[00:16:16] Insurance Institute of the Zenica-Doboj Canton and
[00:16:19] we explained to each other what the situation is, what it's about, we cannot
[00:16:23] get into a situation where uh we correct 20, 30
[00:16:27] years of negligence in the mining sector and non-payment of contributions in
[00:16:30] one month or in one day to somehow
[00:16:34] make miners conditionally without health care.
[00:16:37] "I offered the director of the Health Insurance Institute to go towards
[00:16:41] a systemic solution, not for miners to suffer
[00:16:44] at this moment, because that is the only sustainable thing for the coming period, everything that will happen
[00:16:48] uh in the future must be accompanied by
[00:16:51] a systemic solution, what we did with the fair
[00:16:55] transition project with which we will ensure
[00:16:58] miners and the community that we will take care of them in the most adequate way
[00:17:01] and that we will pay all contributions for pension and disability
[00:17:04] insurance is a project."
[00:17:07] a project that we prepared and worked on for two years, now
[00:17:11] it is coming to implementation, soon this credit will be effective,
[00:17:14] so we can already now take a
[00:17:18] systemic approach to solving these problems, on the other
[00:17:20] hand, we proposed to the parliament amendments and
[00:17:24] additions to the law on financial consolidation with which we want
[00:17:27] to utilize non-perspective assets, sell
[00:17:31] mining assets, and in that way provide for all those
[00:17:34] whose contributions have not been paid for the last 20 years, which is truly
[00:17:38] a huge problem for the mining sector, these are the ways
[00:17:42] these things are solved, these things are not solved in one month, in
[00:17:46] one day. I absolutely understand the position of the Health Insurance
[00:17:49] Institute of the Zenica-Doboj Canton, pardon me, not only of that
[00:17:53] canton, but also of other cantons, I said that to the director, I am
[00:17:57] a child of the Health Insurance Institute from Tuzla Canton, because that was my first
[00:18:01] job and I absolutely understand the way of
[00:18:05] thinking, it is also part of the state apparatus, part of the state
[00:18:08] system that offers health care to insured persons,
[00:18:12] for that reason, I absolutely support efforts towards a systemic
[00:18:16] solution, but this cannot be done with only one
[00:18:18] ministry, we have cantons that are absolutely responsible for
[00:18:22] the Health Insurance Institute of Tuzla Canton, because health
[00:18:26] care is divided between cantons and the Federation, we have the Federal Ministry
[00:18:30] of Health, within which is the Health Insurance and Reinsurance Institute
[00:18:34] of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, we have the Ministry of Labor and Social Policy. So
[00:18:37] that is a wide circle that needs to be included in the systemic
[00:18:41] resolution of this problem, this cannot be done in
[00:18:44] one month, and I think that the director of the Health
[00:18:48] Insurance Institute is aware of that, and of course, we now have
[00:18:52] uh the definition of a systemic solution because neither
[00:18:55] our citizens should be left without health care, contributions for health care are
[00:18:59] paid exactly what I want to ask you, what and how
[00:19:03] does that definition of a systemic solution look like because
[00:19:05] for many, I believe, viewers and certainly mining
[00:19:09] families, perhaps especially, that
[00:19:12] term "systemic solution" does not mean much, if there is a threat that
[00:19:15] a similar problem will be repeated after these 30 days, absolutely,
[00:19:19] well, one of the first and short-term, so to speak,
[00:19:23] solutions is that our mines start
[00:19:26] paying a higher amount of contributions to the health insurance
[00:19:29] institutes in the cantons where we have our mines, and we agreed on
[00:19:33] this in three or four meetings, some of these meetings were also
[00:19:37] by phone, so to speak, but my presence was always
[00:19:40] there, so that would be short-term, meaning we have to start
[00:19:44] allocating more for health insurance to have
[00:19:47] continuity, and in parallel with that, seek a systemic solution, I said that, and
[00:19:51] what are the chances that this will happen, that the problem will not be repeated soon? Well, it happened,
[00:19:55] it happened, here's the fair transition project, so we're entering it,
[00:19:58] amendments to the law on financial consolidation have happened, we're entering
[00:20:02] it, meaning we have to move forward and solve it, these are debts
[00:20:06] accumulated over a billion. KM are debts for
[00:20:09] contributions of the entire mining sector that have been accumulating for 20, perhaps
[00:20:12] even more years, meaning it cannot be solved in this way, but
[00:20:16] we must try to create a solution for the future, I think that now we should
[00:20:20] use the time in the next month or two to define what it is that
[00:20:24] we will do in 2027 and in the coming years, because this is an acute problem
[00:20:27] that cannot be broken over the backs of miners, mhm, what is
[00:20:31] most important to define for now for these coming months for the beginning of
[00:20:35] 2027? Absolutely, already the
[00:20:38] for health insurance institutes, for health care contributions, that is
[00:20:41] the first and foremost thing we must do, that in order to be, we come into a
[00:20:45] situation where we have to increase coal production, which, thank God, has been
[00:20:48] rising to good levels of coal production in recent months, I also told
[00:20:52] the director of the Health Insurance Institute of Zenica-Doboj
[00:20:55] Canton, if you stop, if you stop certifying
[00:20:59] our miners' cards, automatically there will be no coal production, the consequence is
[00:21:02] no coal in the thermal power plant in Kakanj, the consequence of that
[00:21:05] is no electricity, the consequence of that is that
[00:21:08] Elektroprivreda has to buy electricity on another
[00:21:12] market, the consequence of that is that the Kakanj mine will not receive
[00:21:16] funds again for that is a vicious circle that cannot be broken
[00:21:20] only at the expense of the miners, meaning we must turn to a systemic solution, and I think that
[00:21:24] the director understood the message, mhm, when you talk about the new law
[00:21:27] that should solve certain
[00:21:30] problems of miners, you are talking about the sale of non-perspective assets,
[00:21:34] mm, how do you assess its fate, it's not the first
[00:21:38] time that something like that has been discussed and it didn't pass, will it,
[00:21:41] can it now, in what phase is it? Well, I think that all those who did not vote or who were
[00:21:45] abstaining, or did not understand or were very wrong when
[00:21:49] they... voted that way, I call on all of them this time when they come to parliament not to
[00:21:53] play with the fates of miners but to solve it together, because we have
[00:21:57] reached a systemic proposal from the ministry and the government of the Federation, I think that
[00:22:01] the fates of miners should not be played with at all because they are people who
[00:22:04] built both our former state and this state, and they must be provided for in
[00:22:08] the most adequate way, I think that there will be political will, I
[00:22:11] call on all those who did not vote, and I thank all those who
[00:22:15] voted for this law in the next parliamentary cycle
[00:22:18] when this law comes. I sincerely hope that in the next month, month
[00:22:22] and a half, we will then have an adopted law that the tax
[00:22:26] administration will sell non-perspective assets, I cannot
[00:22:28] understand that for 20 years we were in a state that
[00:22:32] we have something that is worthless, that we have assets that serve no purpose, that
[00:22:36] coal will never be mined there again, that on the other hand we have
[00:22:39] accumulated debts for contributions for health, for pension and disability, for the unemployed and
[00:22:43] all others, and that we did not match those two through
[00:22:47] an adequate legal framework, the ministry has offered it and... we are moving towards a solution, what is
[00:22:51] important here is that the mines will not sell their assets, but the tax administration to whom
[00:22:55] money is owed will sell the assets and intend, and that is the way
[00:22:58] mm of experts who will assess those assets and through
[00:23:01] auction, a completely transparent process where we gain many
[00:23:05] benefits, miners go into retirement, deservedly, all their
[00:23:09] contributions are paid, non-perspective assets go to the development
[00:23:12] of local communities in cities, municipalities and cantons where
[00:23:16] where we own them, and on the third hand, we come to a situation where...
[00:23:20] We have in the funds public revenues that
[00:23:24] have increased, I think this is one of the best solutions
[00:23:27] that has been offered in the last, I can surely say, ten
[00:23:31] years, and I think we should no longer play with this, what was the reasoning for those who did not
[00:23:35] support it, well I think you should ask them,
[00:23:38] mhm, we will then
[00:23:41] certainly have a lot of work when it comes to discussions about
[00:23:45] the entire future of miners, mines in the Federation of Bosnia
[00:23:48] and Herzegovina, we don't have... "we have a lot of time with you given your upcoming
[00:23:52] obligations, so I suggest that we move on to the next important topics,
[00:23:56] to mention the Zenica Steelworks, we know how
[00:23:59] the decision of the cantonal court ended,
[00:24:02] more precisely that the decision of the municipal court in Zenica was confirmed, where
[00:24:06] your proposals were rejected, then yesterday or the day before yesterday
[00:24:10] a meeting followed, right, with the owners, where your proposals
[00:24:14] were rejected again, what can be the future
[00:24:17] of the workers now, I think it is most important to communicate
[00:24:21] to the public what the real situation is, the Zenica
[00:24:24] Steelworks is 92% owned by private capital
[00:24:28] and less than 8% is owned by the government
[00:24:31] of the Federation. The moment that was
[00:24:34] crucial was the sale of the steelworks for one Mark
[00:24:37] in the previous period. We
[00:24:40] gave something that built the state, a steel
[00:24:43] industry to which ten to twelve thousand
[00:24:47] jobs were linked, to someone for one Mark,
[00:24:51] that's where all the problems start, the Federation
[00:24:54] of BiH with 8%, you know what it means to manage a company
[00:24:58] with 8%, but we saw that it is of
[00:25:02] systemic importance for the industry of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina and for that
[00:25:05] reason we proposed that the law which, well,
[00:25:09] did not receive support either from the municipal court or from the cantonal
[00:25:12] court, we will go further to the appellate court, to the Supreme Court, and
[00:25:16] finish our legal process to the end, respond to all those appeals that
[00:25:19] followed both from the municipal court in Zenica and from
[00:25:23] the National Assembly of the Republika Srpska, we will carry out this process to the end, and as
[00:25:26] for that, we will also consider the possibility
[00:25:29] of initiating the procedure of introducing extraordinary
[00:25:32] administration, uh, but we must be aware, private capital
[00:25:36] manages the Zenica Steelworks, it has its own
[00:25:39] goals, it has its own plans, we allowed
[00:25:42] that some twenty or more years ago, for it
[00:25:45] to go into the hands of private capital, that decision was not
[00:25:49] good... These are the consequences of that decision, unfortunately we are in
[00:25:53] a situation where the Steelworks may go into bankruptcy,
[00:25:56] I sincerely hope that this bankruptcy will not
[00:25:59] completely stop steel production
[00:26:03] in Bosnia and Herzegovina, but rather that other
[00:26:06] perspectives will open up. We also had two discussions with
[00:26:10] the management and owners of Zenica Ironworks, the majority
[00:26:13] owners. We tried to ask that we move in the direction that the company does not go into
[00:26:17] bankruptcy, that we all get involved, because by going into bankruptcy
[00:26:21] all workers immediately get their employment contracts terminated. There
[00:26:25] we have 1500 jobs, that's 1500
[00:26:28] families who will at that moment lose their jobs. This
[00:26:32] is a huge blow to the entire industry. Of course, on the other
[00:26:35] hand, we are preparing everything we can to help those
[00:26:39] workers if that scenario happens,
[00:26:42] but we must understand one thing, that it is not in the hands of the Federation
[00:26:46] of Bosnia and Herzegovina. 8% is not enough to turn things around
[00:26:50] the way we would like. After all, we tried with
[00:26:53] the law, we will finish the procedure to the end, we will not give up
[00:26:57] when it comes to the ironworks, but we must be realistic, 92% is
[00:27:01] a private company, mhm.
[00:27:03] Excuse me, the new owners say that at the last meeting, which happened two days
[00:27:07] ago, you proposed something that
[00:27:11] the courts have already rejected, will there be new meetings
[00:27:14] in the coming period or will you wait, for appeals, you said the Supreme,
[00:27:18] no, we will not stop with uh with communication. That
[00:27:22] communication, I'll tell you, has never stopped, at least from my side, from
[00:27:25] the side of the owners. So we constantly communicate to reach
[00:27:29] a solution. We have owners, so the Federation
[00:27:32] of BiH with 8%, private capital with
[00:27:35] 92%, we have workers, these are three
[00:27:38] partners who must make the maximum in this agreement.
[00:27:41] However, the Federation and the workers are at this
[00:27:45] moment not asking so much for our wishes and
[00:27:48] priorities are not those priorities that are currently with
[00:27:52] the private owner, because we offered not to go into
[00:27:54] bankruptcy, and a priori they immediately rejected it, that they
[00:27:58] do not want to think about it at all because they believe that bankruptcy is the only way
[00:28:02] the ironworks will produce again in the future,
[00:28:05] but on a smaller scale with fewer people,
[00:28:09] which was presented to us
[00:28:12] at the last meeting, so we will not
[00:28:15] stop talks, meaning 8%, not only because of those 8% but because of
[00:28:19] the workers who are the ironworks, mhm. When we take into
[00:28:22] account how all that now functions, how much
[00:28:25] the railways of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina
[00:28:28] are endangered, very much. So, before
[00:28:32] and before... the railways, I would mention the mine in
[00:28:35] Ljubija, that is, the iron ore mine where
[00:28:38] 600 workers lost their jobs, the mine located in
[00:28:42] the Republic of Srpska, also the railways of the Republic of Srpska
[00:28:45] which will be threatened by a reduction, a significant reduction in revenue, because
[00:28:48] the ironworks generated revenue in the ironworks, in
[00:28:52] the railways of the Republic of Srpska. Then there are the railways of the Federation of Bosnia and
[00:28:55] Herzegovina which will surely have 30, 40% less
[00:28:58] revenue. Let's not forget
[00:29:00] the iron processors
[00:29:02] located in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Let's not forget all
[00:29:05] suppliers of all input components for
[00:29:08] the production of iron in the Zenica
[00:29:11] Ironworks. This is an entire system that will surely feel
[00:29:15] uh the impact if it happens that this
[00:29:18] is bankruptcy or something else that happens in the coming
[00:29:22] days.
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