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[00:00:23] Exactly at 4 p.m., we wish you a good day, or rather 5 p.m., good day and
[00:00:27] welcome to the N1 television live day, in a few hours... The 32nd Sarajevo
[00:00:30] Film Festival will be officially opened, which this time
[00:00:34] brings a series of world and regional premieres, and brings numerous names of the seventh
[00:00:38] art from different meridians to the main BiH
[00:00:41] city. However, in Sarajevo today, more than the
[00:00:44] beginning of the SFF, there was talk about yesterday's Prodigy concert,
[00:00:48] or rather about the fact that at the mentioned event,
[00:00:51] it was forbidden to serve alcohol at the mentioned event, at the
[00:00:55] request of the police. There is a debate about the real reasons for such a decision
[00:00:59] and how... what message it sends to both the citizens of Sarajevo and
[00:01:02] tourists. You can express your opinion on this topic in the poll on the
[00:01:06] N1info.Ba portal. Here's what we will be talking about for the next
[00:01:09] 90 minutes in the live day.
[00:01:14] finally appointed an ambassador, that we are not at the Fires across Bosnia and Herzegovina have been engulfing
[00:01:18] forests, low vegetation, and natural resources in recent days. According to NASA data,
[00:01:21] more than 1,000 fires have been recorded in just 13 days, significantly
[00:01:25] more than in the same period last year. How much is the human
[00:01:29] factor responsible for this
[00:01:31] time be even less given situation? Have we learned the necessary lessons from previous seasons?
[00:01:34] In the live day, we are also checking the situation in the countries
[00:01:37] of the region.
[00:01:40] Today's first guest is Semir Efendić, president of the Party for Bosnia and
[00:01:43] Herzegovina, mayor of the Sarajevo municipality of Novi Grad. We are discussing the
[00:01:47] support he is receiving before the October elections, relations with political partners
[00:01:51] and opponents, and his vision of the state in complex political
[00:01:54] circumstances. We are also opening topics of Mostar, relations with HDZ and
[00:01:58] SNSD, we are talking about sports. infrastructure projects in
[00:02:01] Sarajevo, as well as the foreign policy positioning of Bosnia and
[00:02:05] Herzegovina.
[00:02:08] Tonight, the 32nd Sarajevo Film Festival begins. We will discuss the program,
[00:02:12] guests, premieres, and the importance of the festival for the city and region
[00:02:16] with Andrijana Cop, spokeswoman for this event.
[00:02:19] What does this year's edition bring, how does SFF position itself on the
[00:02:22] international film map, and how much does it contribute to the development of the domestic
[00:02:25] film scene? From the red carpet to the big screens, we bring you a story
[00:02:29] about... the festival that puts Sarajevo in the focus of the world's
[00:02:33] cultural public these days.
[00:02:48] And in Sarajevo, a panel will be held tomorrow on the topic "Sounds of
[00:02:51] Belonging: Music, Diaspora, and the Second Generation," organized by the i-platform
[00:02:55] and the Embassy of Switzerland in BiH. The panel will feature
[00:02:58] discussions. Bosnian-Swiss musician Lejla
[00:03:02] Šurković, Nataša Mitrović, and Haris Abdagić. On that occasion, we will host
[00:03:05] Lejla, as well as Aldin Vrškić from the i-platform, an organization that has
[00:03:09] been building bridges between the diaspora and Bosnia and Herzegovina for years, and
[00:03:13] Jorget Broncez, a representative of the Swiss Embassy in Bosnia and
[00:03:17] Herzegovina.
[00:03:21] So, those are some of the topics and guests that await you live
[00:03:24] in the next hour and a
[00:03:28] except through sports federations at half.
[00:03:33] Before all that is announced, we will also browse the
[00:03:36] functioned. If there were problems at n1info.by portal and recommend that you look for the most important news of the day there. Here's what is currently highlighted on
[00:03:40] our portal. Elvedin
[00:03:43] Pezić released, returning to Bosnia and Herzegovina. The United
[00:03:47] States of America insists that Netanyahu publicly condemn the siege
[00:03:50] of a Palestinian village by Jewish settlers. Mayors from the region and
[00:03:54] Europe have arrived in Sarajevo. Here's what this year's Sarajevo Declaration
[00:03:58] brings. Um. Croatia, a body found at the fire scene,
[00:04:02] terrible scenes are coming, so from Omiš and
[00:04:04] its surroundings, yards are being washed, pools are being filled, citizens did not take seriously
[00:04:08] the appeal from the Sarajevo waterworks. Rakovica, today without
[00:04:12] water, citizens of Goražde also again in front of the city administration due to
[00:04:16] water supply problems, terrifying scenes of fire near
[00:04:19] Omiš, in a dramatic night, one person
[00:04:22] died, many buildings and cars
[00:04:25] burned in the fire element, all about that extensively on our
[00:04:30] portal.
[00:04:38] In the current political moment, political allies, challenges in
[00:04:42] the functioning of the state, relations within the federation and the vision of Bosnia
[00:04:45] and Herzegovina, after the elections in October, we talk with the
[00:04:48] president of the Party for Bosnia and Herzegovina, mayor of the Sarajevo
[00:04:51] municipality of Novi Grad, Semir Efendić. Good day and welcome. Good day
[00:04:55] to you and the viewers of N1 television. I announced quite a few topics,
[00:04:59] let's start. Let's start with these high, high politics, as some
[00:05:02] call it, and
[00:05:05] Union has its own rules on the upcoming October elections. You are definitely a candidate, therefore, for a member
[00:05:08] of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina, although many thought you would give up in
[00:05:11] that photo finish. Uh, how do you view that
[00:05:15] election race that hasn't started yet, at least officially,
[00:05:17] and how do you assess your opponents'
[00:05:21] chances in this race? The Central Election Commission has verified
[00:05:24] the candidacies, so that matter is now official.
[00:05:27] The ballots are being prepared and will be printed for
[00:05:31] the October elections, so things are definitive
[00:05:34] regarding the candidacy. I have spoken several times before about
[00:05:37] the reasons for that candidacy. First
[00:05:40] and foremost, I would like the political will of the people in Bosnia and
[00:05:43] Herzegovina to be translated into our state system, for our system
[00:05:47] to work as citizens wish. I believed that
[00:05:51] the best way to do that was through
[00:05:53] a candidacy for a member of the presidency, given that
[00:05:57] I am also the president of a political party and our citizens
[00:06:00] have the greatest opportunity to show their political will precisely by voting for members of the presidency
[00:06:04] who have the largest electoral bases or units, in the case
[00:06:08] of the federation, so that is the entire federation where two members are elected
[00:06:11] and members of the presidency generally receive the highest number of votes, it
[00:06:15] exceeds 300 and sometimes has exceeded 400,000 votes and so
[00:06:18] on, by giving support to these politicians,
[00:06:22] candidates, citizens largely show
[00:06:25] their political will, however our system still does not
[00:06:28] function in accordance with our political will as citizens, because
[00:06:32] there is no such vertical from the presidency to other levels
[00:06:35] of government for the system to do its job. It is expected that
[00:06:38] our health system functions, that our security
[00:06:42] system functions, that our education system functions, communal and all others, that is
[00:06:46] certainly the political will of our people, but it is not happening due to
[00:06:49] the complexity of the system and the impossibility of integrating
[00:06:52] processes at all levels from the presidency to the cantonal level.
[00:06:56] Since you entered this race, do you think you can change something about it
[00:07:00] if you become part of that story, that is,
[00:07:03] if you are elected as a member of the presidency, how realistic is it
[00:07:06] to expect that one person in any position in this country
[00:07:10] today can change things given the... exactly the
[00:07:14] mentioned system that exists today in Bosnia and Herzegovina? Not only do I think so, I am completely
[00:07:17] convinced of it. I remind you, I am also a political scientist by profession, so that is my
[00:07:21] field of expertise, how a political system should function. And I have a master's
[00:07:24] degree. We have been observing the situation for 30 years. Many people have actually
[00:07:27] come with the idea of wanting to change things, and things
[00:07:31] remain as they are, often even worse. Often people, often people who take on
[00:07:35] that job don't even have a theoretical basis for how to establish a system, what are the foundations
[00:07:38] of its functioning. I say that I know it's possible because before
[00:07:42] that I said, from the role of the president of a party that also has candidates for
[00:07:46] all other levels, I am running for the most important position, but it is very important that it
[00:07:50] be a pyramid from top to bottom, so that support does not apply
[00:07:54] only to the candidate for a member of the presidency of the presidency, but that we have a certain
[00:07:57] political strength even within parliaments, which will
[00:08:01] consequently mean within the executive branch. When things
[00:08:04] are set up like that within the system, changes are certainly
[00:08:07] possible. And now we have an anomaly, for example, that a member of the presidency has no
[00:08:10] influence whatsoever on the current member of the presidency, absolutely no political
[00:08:14] influence in terms of a political party. Decisions on the most important processes in
[00:08:18] our country are made by citizens, made by some people who received almost
[00:08:21] no support in the elections, because that's how it is. You know, in other countries it is
[00:08:25] often the practice that the most responsible people, party presidents, fight for the most important
[00:08:29] functions. Then, when supporting them, citizens actually decide
[00:08:32] whom they want as a political party in some
[00:08:36] system. Then the system must function
[00:08:39] in all its segments. There must be a political
[00:08:42] will for that. Again, I say the people are the ones who give political will with their
[00:08:46] votes. Someone who has received it from the people must not shy away
[00:08:49] from that responsibility. They must take on that responsibility, then systematically
[00:08:53] first establish the system and manage it in accordance with the will of the people.
[00:08:56] I say again, it is our great desire that
[00:09:00] the judiciary functions, everyone surely wants that, that
[00:09:03] healthcare functions, neither one nor the other functions, nothing
[00:09:07] in the world will ever function on its own, without this political will that
[00:09:11] drives it from the top and... It can only be that way, yes, but we have that
[00:09:14] tripartite political system in Bosnia and Herzegovina, you commented on it now
[00:09:18] and you very often comment on
[00:09:21] uh and the views
[00:09:24] and messages from SNSD and HDZ. If these two
[00:09:28] parties again become an indispensable factor in forming the
[00:09:31] government after October, how do you think anything can
[00:09:35] change, no matter who is on this side, say
[00:09:38] from the Bosniak corpus, part of that government? I think
[00:09:42] they first and foremost need an adequate political counterbalance, someone
[00:09:45] they can't toy with as they please. I remind you,
[00:09:48] even in this mandate, it could have been without them, so there was
[00:09:52] a possibility, but everything has its terms. After the elections themselves,
[00:09:55] the government could have been formed without SNSD and without HDZ. This is something I
[00:09:59] warned all the presidents of the "troika" parties who entered that government about from the beginning.
[00:10:03] We have now lost four years. Believe me, I knew at that moment when this government was formed that it would be like this.
[00:10:07] So, assumptions do not have to exist for work to be done somewhere. There must be an agreement,
[00:10:11] and even if SNSD and HDZ enter the government, and if they cannot
[00:10:15] enter that government without a third party, let's say, without the Bosniak side,
[00:10:18] it must be
[00:10:22] sufficiently articulated that they cannot establish
[00:10:25] power without some basic agreements on what needs to be done in a
[00:10:28] mandate. That was not done at the beginning, the opportunity
[00:10:32] was not used, especially because
[00:10:35] there was an alternative. So, at a time when you have an alternative, the opposition
[00:10:39] from the RS entity, you choose SNSD, and you don't sign or
[00:10:43] agree on anything important with them, and you get what we got. I
[00:10:46] am convinced that if there were adequate political
[00:10:49] strength from the side that has the interest of the state of Bosnia and Herzegovina, not
[00:10:53] these separatist
[00:10:55] intentions, then the government cannot be formed. But if that side gives in
[00:10:59] and enters into government formation with those who openly work on
[00:11:03] realizing their separatist goals, you get what you get. But
[00:11:06] it is definitive that the government cannot be formed. Neither SNSD nor
[00:11:10] HDZ can do it. After all, an absolute majority in
[00:11:12] the House of Representatives of the Parliament can be elected in cantons
[00:11:16] where neither HDZ nor SNSD have any influence. So 25 deputies can
[00:11:20] be elected. But where would that actually lead Bosnia and Herzegovina, considering the
[00:11:24] already present tensions and messages
[00:11:27] coming from uh, so
[00:11:30] the part where HDZ is in the majority, and from Republika Srpska.
[00:11:33] Would that actually further radicalize the political situation? One should not
[00:11:37] worry about that. It cannot radicalize. There must be a package of political
[00:11:41] agreements for what needs to be done. Both HDZ and SNSD are
[00:11:45] very interested in being part of the government. mm That is
[00:11:48] an opportunity when one can talk with them about how it will
[00:11:51] function, about mechanisms to ensure that it truly is.
[00:11:55] For example, when this current convocation of the Council
[00:11:58] of Ministers and this current coalition was formed, which
[00:12:01] doesn't even exist, that the first year it functioned somewhat, and then we had those
[00:12:05] breakthroughs on the European path, some kind of, let's say, good
[00:12:09] energy, then everything fell apart at one point. It functioned as long as
[00:12:12] the process of appointing directors, members,
[00:12:15] boards, supervisory boards, and so on lasted. Until then, they pretended that everything was functioning so that they wouldn't
[00:12:19] betray each other. Not a single director can be appointed unless everyone votes for him,
[00:12:23] both the "troika" and HDZ, and SNSD in this case.
[00:12:25] And while they delivered everything to each other that they needed, while Dodik got the director of the
[00:12:29] Indirect Taxation Authority, while he got the new Minister of
[00:12:32] Finance, until then it seemed that he was doing something. However, after that,
[00:12:36] everything was completely blocked. What about
[00:12:39] other levels? Who is preventing more efficient work in Sarajevo Canton? Who is preventing
[00:12:42] the Federation or ministries within the Federation from more efficiently doing their
[00:12:46] jobs? So it's not all so that it can't be done, that things are not set
[00:12:49] up in the right way. Here's maybe an opportunity to give just one
[00:12:53] example. Bosnia and Herzegovina has a law on sports, adopted I think
[00:12:57] in 2008, proposed by SNSD cadres,
[00:13:00] and today not a single sports federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina has secured funds for its
[00:13:04] functioning. We do not have secured funds for
[00:13:07] national team appearances on the international stage. We cannot appear
[00:13:11] in any other way than as a national team. No athlete from Bosnia and Herzegovina, whether
[00:13:15] from Republika Srpska, or from West Mostar, or anywhere, he cannot
[00:13:18] appear or become relevant on the international stage in
[00:13:22] representative competitions, except through national teams of Bosnia
[00:13:26] and Herzegovina, which are formed through umbrella federations. These federations do not have
[00:13:29] a single mark for functioning, at the same time, in the Ministry
[00:13:33] of Civil Affairs there are funds for sports
[00:13:35] distributed through some public calls. I am convinced that it is possible that there
[00:13:39] must, that there must be will from all sides to secure funds
[00:13:43] for the functioning of umbrella sports federations in Bosnia and Herzegovina
[00:13:46] by this state, because no athlete
[00:13:49] from Bosnia and Herzegovina can appear anywhere
[00:13:53] the state level and... So, it's not a problem of lack of money, it exists in
[00:13:57] the Ministry of Civil Affairs, it's distributed to some clubs, very questionable
[00:14:01] for what projects, what reasons, at the same time national or state
[00:14:05] federations have no money for functioning. So SNSD was
[00:14:08] once a party that proposed the law on sports, and a strategy for the development of
[00:14:12] sports in Bosnia and Herzegovina was adopted sometime in 2010 or a year before or
[00:14:15] after, until today we have no agreement on
[00:14:19] financing these federations, they are in everyone's interest.
[00:14:22] So if you don't want to secure funds
[00:14:26] for the functioning of the state federation, no
[00:14:29] athlete or even appearances of our clubs in international competitions
[00:14:32] should be supported by the state. It is in the interest of Zrinjski
[00:14:36] and Borac and Sarajevo and Željezničar to be supported by the
[00:14:39] state. I have not seen anyone put these questions on the
[00:14:43] agenda in this way. So in numerous other areas, but it must be clearly
[00:14:47] prepared before entering and forming any
[00:14:50] government. If you are still in a position to choose a partner, as was
[00:14:53] the case now. And often it happens that way. If you are in a position
[00:14:57] to choose a political partner, then you are in a much better position than this. After
[00:15:01] all, since we're talking about choosing, you criticize the "troika," you criticize
[00:15:04] SNSD, you criticize HDZ, you criticized the
[00:15:08] previous one, so you didn't have too many words of praise for them.
[00:15:11] Who do you see as potential partners with whom you would
[00:15:14] build the Bosnia and Herzegovina you want?
[00:15:18] It is important that there are such parties, of course.
[00:15:20] It is important who manages the processes, who leads the processes, whether within
[00:15:24] that place where decisions are made, there is someone who knows what the
[00:15:27] goal is, not just to grab positions and that's it.
[00:15:31] We had such an opportunity, and we knew that things couldn't be run that way, but we
[00:15:35] remained an opportunity for the citizens of Bosnia and Herzegovina. As the president
[00:15:38] of the party, I am thinking and working on us as a party being
[00:15:42] a good enough alternative so that we don't have to think about
[00:15:46] who we will do better with. Of course, there are, last time we
[00:15:49] specifically proposed that the opposition from the RS entity be a partner, not
[00:15:53] SNSD as it is, or that we actually specifically demanded from
[00:15:57] SNSD the withdrawal of the law on state property, allowing
[00:16:00] the Bosnian language in schools in the entity. If they don't want any of that, there's no
[00:16:04] point in continuing those talks. I believe
[00:16:07] that... political strength is what gives you the opportunity to get
[00:16:10] what is needed, but it seems to me that you are somehow quite
[00:16:14] lonely, apart from this support and progress that you received as
[00:16:17] a candidate for a member of the presidency, there are no
[00:16:20] other parties with whom you share views, and in Republika
[00:16:24] Srpska you will go to the elections independently. Have you noticed
[00:16:27] that citizens are satisfied with what we have seen so far? We could only drown
[00:16:31] in this grayness, continue to waste our lives without any
[00:16:35] results.
[00:16:37] I told you, in the RS identity there are two political options, one is SNSD,
[00:16:41] the other are opposition parties. We are closer
[00:16:45] to what the rhetoric is and what the actions are of those who are not
[00:16:48] SNSD. As for the federation, there are many
[00:16:50] parties, uh, yes, but will that independent
[00:16:54] entry into the elections in Republika Srpska actually weaken the position
[00:16:58] of Bosniaks there, given that we know how few seats in
[00:17:01] Parliament have been won so far by uh,
[00:17:04] by parties uh with a Bosniak prefix, will that?
[00:17:08] the stratification. We were part of that majority last
[00:17:12] time, but because of those who led that joint
[00:17:15] project, it happened that it was completely ruined, so that
[00:17:19] the fact is that soldiers, a proud
[00:17:22] soldier of the Republika Srpska army, says that he is
[00:17:25] a representative, in fact today he is a representative of the Movement for the State from the last
[00:17:28] elections. We believe that this is trading with the votes of returnees. We are not
[00:17:32] ready to trade with the support we get there. Whatever support we get,
[00:17:35] we will manage it in such a way that we will truly represent those citizens in whose
[00:17:39] name we registered for the elections. And our only condition is that
[00:17:43] SDP participates in the RS entity, so SDP in the RS
[00:17:46] entity destroyed pro-Bosnian politics
[00:17:49] and led to such a low turnout of the diaspora to
[00:17:53] register for elections in Bosnia and Herzegovina. It helped
[00:17:56] SNSD at the beginning to get a fourth delegate, which it lost through the courts.
[00:17:59] From BH Telecom in Banja Luka, it made an employment bureau
[00:18:03] for SDP cadres from Banja Luka who are not returnees at all, especially not
[00:18:06] Bosniaks. So we don't trust them. Pro-Bosnian politics cannot be built with SDP
[00:18:10] in the RS entity. Why did SDA agree to that?
[00:18:13] We don't know, but we believed that citizens at least have the right to have
[00:18:17] an alternative, that this is not their only option, what they saw last
[00:18:21] time. Let's go from Banja Luka to Mostar, uh,
[00:18:24] you commented on the situation there as well. Mostar somehow, it seems to me, can't stop
[00:18:28] being a problem city, uh, do you think that the
[00:18:31] relations between Bosniaks and Croats, primarily in Mostar, are
[00:18:35] worse than ten years ago? That these national
[00:18:38] tensions are rising from year to year, even when those years are not
[00:18:42] election years. For a long time, Mostar has somehow been a problem city.
[00:18:45] Ten years ago, Mostar did not have a mayor, I think that period
[00:18:49] lasted 10 years, in Mostar there were no
[00:18:51] elections. It is simply visible that what is the statute of the city of
[00:18:55] Mostar proclaimed by the High Representative, in
[00:18:59] practice, in reality, does not function. And that is a big problem. This must be
[00:19:02] discussed at a serious political level, seeking some
[00:19:05] solutions. Mm, what is...
[00:19:07] It is a shame that local self-government was abolished, Mostar had municipalities like
[00:19:11] Sarajevo, so at least they
[00:19:14] the city level in the area of jurisdiction that the city implements, the
[00:19:17] municipalities could do their job. But what I see now, there are no municipalities,
[00:19:21] and the city administration does not function as it was
[00:19:25] envisioned by the statute of the city of Mostar imposed by the High
[00:19:28] Representative, but there were attempts, there were indications
[00:19:32] actually that a new statute would be adopted, obviously
[00:19:35] whoever is in that city
[00:19:37] government somehow, what you mentioned earlier, agrees on positions,
[00:19:41] but on other things it's difficult. Well, you see, through this case
[00:19:44] of the landfill, that a landfill that operates
[00:19:48] absolutely without any ecological
[00:19:50] parameters, without what should be there
[00:19:53] to even be able to dispose of waste, is above people's houses or
[00:19:57] next to the houses of a number of Mostar residents. They are protesting against it,
[00:20:01] and today the police are arresting them because they are trying to protect themselves from
[00:20:04] a landfill that has no
[00:20:07] standards in its functioning. Of course, on the other
[00:20:10] hand, the city which has to solve the problem with
[00:20:14] waste removal and has no solution in a quality way, neither in terms of location
[00:20:17] nor construction of a landfill that functions according to some
[00:20:21] minimal conditions that satisfy ecology. How with the landfill, you saw
[00:20:25] the situation with, that is, the public could see in the communal
[00:20:29] company itself and in numerous other areas, simply that city as it was
[00:20:32] conceived does not function, especially since the
[00:20:35] mayor began to establish a
[00:20:38] majority, a simple majority in which there are no Bosniak
[00:20:42] representatives at all. Then for those decisions that are made by a simple majority or what
[00:20:46] he does, he does it independently. So
[00:20:48] imagine a city where the city builds a Croatian theater, as if only Croats live in it,
[00:20:52] and these activities are supported by both HDZ
[00:20:55] and the city administration of Mostar. Is it a problem for Mostar
[00:20:59] to have a city theater?
[00:21:02] How can you in the very name of a theater
[00:21:06] determine who can go in it or whose theater it is? Is it
[00:21:10] not natural that a city that is multiethnic, which has
[00:21:13] besides Croats also Bosniaks and Serbs and numerous others, should
[00:21:17] have a city theater? No, it only has a Croatian one here. And how can such
[00:21:20] a policy, how can a city even function in which the one who
[00:21:24] is the mayor, who has the most authority, represents such
[00:21:27] a policy? It's not only tense on the political
[00:21:30] scene in Bosnia and Herzegovina, but it seems to me also on the regional one. The recent visit
[00:21:34] of Aleksandar Vučić to Bugojno also provoked numerous reactions and what
[00:21:38] accompanied it, uh, do you see any
[00:21:42] possibility of actually warming relations
[00:21:44] between neighbors and surrounding countries when Bosnia and Herzegovina is
[00:21:48] concerned, given that the problem is not only on the Sarajevo-Belgrade axis,
[00:21:52] but very often also on the Sarajevo-
[00:21:54] Zagreb axis. In all likelihood, our neighbors have not
[00:21:58] abandoned the policies of the 90s which were primarily to the territorial
[00:22:02] teritorijalnu štetu Bosne i Hercegovine, pa je i
[00:22:06] njihova politika danas vrlo često usmerena na isto.
[00:22:09] This arrival of Vučić, I don't have concrete information, I am not
[00:22:13] naravno, niti u vanjskim poslovima, niti u diplomaciji, da li je on uopšte
[00:22:16] izrazio želju, a pretpostavljam da možda i nije, da dolazi u glavni grad da... "uđe u
[00:22:20] Sarajevo, ali svi oni koji na ovaj način misle graditi odnose sa
[00:22:24] they should not be
[00:22:27] to dozvoliti način da, ako ne uvažavaju glavni grad države, ako ne
[00:22:30] uvažavaju zvanične državne institucije i žele da sarađuju
[00:22:34] tako sa nekim nižim nivoima vlasti, onda ne mogu nastaviti saradnju sa državnim
[00:22:37] institucijama, ako to je njihov izbor, nek oni nastave sarađivati sa entitetom, ne mogu
[00:22:41] nastaviti saradnju sa državom kako su imali do sada, ali ne vidim
[00:22:44] da je ja nisam vidio da se naše predsedništvo uopće ozbiljno
[00:22:47] oglasilo toj Vučićevoj posjeti gdje on..." je nekoliko dana upućivao
[00:22:51] različite, različite ovaj
[00:22:54] I haven't seen any
[00:22:57] state-building, state reaction from the level of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina for what he
[00:23:01] did in that week when he stayed for several days in the
[00:23:05] area of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and then the police of the entity and RS invaded the
[00:23:08] territory of the Federation and all that which accompanied it, I think
[00:23:11] that it, and certainly it is in the best interest of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia and Croatia to cooperate
[00:23:14] in all areas in economy, in customs.
[00:23:18] security and everything else, when they will one day realize to start
[00:23:22] cooperating with state institutions, when they see that there is no other way, if they cooperate
[00:23:25] with the entity, that is a reduction of the possibility of Serbia cooperating with Bosnia
[00:23:29] and Herzegovina at all, but their choice, and geopolitical circumstances are
[00:23:33] rapidly changing, uh, somehow it seems that
[00:23:36] the view of the world actually becomes quite different
[00:23:39] than it was a year ago, two or three, uh, is Bosnia
[00:23:43] and Herzegovina still in the focus of the world public, has
[00:23:47] domestic diplomacy managed to draw attention to Bosnia and
[00:23:51] Herzegovina at least partly, as much as the footballers at the World
[00:23:54] Cup did, considering the great interest of tourists for Bosnia
[00:23:58] and Herzegovina after the World Cup, how much of that was followed by domestic
[00:24:02] diplomacy? I think that Bosnia and Herzegovina is certainly not in the focus of the world
[00:24:05] public. That is because of all the problems that exist today in the Middle
[00:24:09] East, Southeast Europe, Ukraine and so on. Bosnia and Herzegovina is not in
[00:24:12] that focus, but the memory, of course, first and foremost
[00:24:16] about Europe, remains. The fact that there was a big hotbed here in the 90s
[00:24:19] and a fear, a dose of fear
[00:24:22] that it could happen again, that's why Europe will never stop
[00:24:26] carefully following the events here, because it is their antechamber,
[00:24:30] no one wants a fire in their backyard, because if there is a fire in the backyard, it can
[00:24:33] reach the house, in that sense, there is a kind of interest
[00:24:37] for sure, now how much Europe is able to articulate,
[00:24:40] take some concrete steps, however, they are actively working to
[00:24:44] maintain some kind of stability, they are involved in...
[00:24:48] How much does America actually take over the primacy in political processes
[00:24:51] in Bosnia and Herzegovina compared to for a long time, America held that primacy, but
[00:24:55] in cooperation with the European Union. They were completely synchronized until the last
[00:24:59] resolution or resignation of the High Representative and the appointment
[00:25:02] of a new one, we have for the first time different attitudes, so it is about
[00:25:06] a new American administration and the European Union. All previous, all
[00:25:10] previous American administrations had
[00:25:13] a completely equal approach in which sometimes Europeans for practical reasons
[00:25:17] ceded that leadership role to America
[00:25:20] to exert pressure on our
[00:25:23] representatives in various processes that were happening here, how long it will last, I don't
[00:25:27] know, I know that it is related to the new Trump administration in
[00:25:30] America, that it is related to the South Interconnection project where they are trying to
[00:25:33] enter the European energy market through Bosnia and Herzegovina and
[00:25:37] Europe, uh, it seems to me that by stopping the election of the High
[00:25:41] Representative in its
[00:25:44] endeavor to prevent a type, they consider it
[00:25:48] unfair competition in the market of energy sources in the European Union, Bosnia and Herzegovina is not yet
[00:25:51] a member of the European Union and the European
[00:25:55] how to trade energy sources and how to enter the European
[00:25:59] Union market. Here it would be difficult to resist them because through Bosnia and Herzegovina. you don't enter
[00:26:03] with a gas pipeline that brings American gas, then probably
[00:26:06] thermal power plants would be built that would supply electricity
[00:26:09] to the market of the European Union and
[00:26:13] everything that was done with the southern interconnection is contrary
[00:26:16] to the norms of the European Union, for that reason I am
[00:26:19] convinced that the European Union this time has
[00:26:22] a different stance compared to the United States of America where they are trying to
[00:26:26] protect European norms, can that cause problems for Bosnia and Herzegovina
[00:26:29] given that we are currently without a High Representative with an
[00:26:33] OHR deputy who has, we can freely say, somewhere
[00:26:37] pulled the handbrake with very little influence on
[00:26:40] political circumstances. My opinion is that the European Union is trying to buy
[00:26:44] time so that the influence of this administration would be reduced after
[00:26:47] these elections which are soon expected in America for their legislative
[00:26:51] bodies, that the interest in such projects will decrease
[00:26:54] if that kind of pressure continues, I believe
[00:26:58] at some point the project will still be realized, that Europe will accept it, but
[00:27:01] time-buying attempt to
[00:27:05] get something out of it in accordance with European norms, in the end I
[00:27:08] believe it will not affect
[00:27:11] any major disruption, what I must mention here, it is good that the United States of America
[00:27:17] level of a chargé d'affaires, it still shows that we as
[00:27:20] a country deserve attention, at least in that an ambassador has been appointed, because it can
[00:27:24] happen that it lasts for years, this time the ambassador
[00:27:27] has finally been appointed, so that will mean a different
[00:27:31] presence in Bosnia and Herzegovina. And in my opinion, it is not even bad that the European Union in
[00:27:35] this way, mm, has shown that it still
[00:27:39] cares about some things, that it does not fully give in, well, our
[00:27:42] parties have all accepted and all voted, with the exception of the party for Bosnia
[00:27:46] and Herzegovina, for the law of the southern internal connection, and then they
[00:27:49] regretted it a little, where a private company completely outside all European
[00:27:53] norms is awarded a public service, to run a public
[00:27:56] service, yes, our party sprinkled some ashes on its head after that,
[00:27:59] when after they saw the views of the European Union, they were a bit too hasty because they
[00:28:03] expected that everything the United States does is supported by the European Union as
[00:28:07] before, they didn't read what it was about. Europe, however, showed
[00:28:10] more seriousness. We, as a party, were the only ones in parliament against it,
[00:28:14] after that, our party said how it would try to stop it, because it is no longer
[00:28:17] sure whether it is an American company at all and so on.
[00:28:21] They remembered late, they should have reacted in time, but well, the European Union will
[00:28:25] strive, this is energy, it is an important issue, all
[00:28:28] political processes in the world, especially wars, are mostly
[00:28:32] fought for energy sources, resources, economy,
[00:28:35] this is not that kind of war, but certainly some overlapping interests and struggle
[00:28:39] for one's own interests from all sides continues, I only ask
[00:28:43] what is in our interest, who cares about the interests of our people, our
[00:28:46] state, our resources, we must
[00:28:49] take care of that, others certainly won't, they will look for how to best,
[00:28:53] most efficiently and as soon as possible use them for themselves, especially
[00:28:56] if we talk about city topics, considering that time is running out, uh, although they
[00:28:59] are not free of political influences. The slow pace of the
[00:29:03] expressway in Sarajevo, uh, you
[00:29:05] somehow opposed your opinion to the cantonal
[00:29:08] authorities, uh, from there the message actually is that what
[00:29:12] you are currently advocating is due to political views, i.e., due to
[00:29:15] upcoming elections, not a real opinion, let's
[00:29:19] somewhere clarify your position on
[00:29:22] the issue, I will just briefly return to what we talked about at the beginning on this issue, I have been the mayor of the municipality in Novi
[00:29:26] Grad for a long time, we had very different compositions of municipal councils during that period,
[00:29:29] politically from complete opposition to
[00:29:33] various coalitions, but work never stopped, because
[00:29:36] for for for work, knowledge is needed and when you have knowledge of how to go through
[00:29:40] some processes, then it is easier to explain it to all political actors and of course you need to
[00:29:44] have a backbone to say no when it is necessary to some things and
[00:29:47] there things are set up and resolved differently, here when it comes
[00:29:51] to a specific project in Sarajevo, I said somewhere in the first reaction that it
[00:29:55] could have been built as it was conceived, since they said it was
[00:29:58] about realizing a project 50 years old, maybe it wouldn't have waited for me.
[00:30:02] "Maybe someone would have finished it before us, and it's a simple
[00:30:05] thing, you you've heard of something called bypasses, i.e. expressways that
[00:30:09] bypass cities, the very word bypass
[00:30:12] means it bypasses, it doesn't go through the middle of the city, the idea and concept of a city
[00:30:16] highway in Sarajevo was actually at that time a bypass in the 60s,
[00:30:20] when there were no settlements on the other side and you, of course,
[00:30:24] bypassed the city and continued transit towards Pale, now after all that has been
[00:30:27] built, to incorporate a bypass, a category of road
[00:30:31] such as a bypass through the middle of the city, that is completely
[00:30:33] senseless, we, of course, as
[00:30:35] a municipality,
[00:30:37] that problem, you always talk about it very simply, well, we
[00:30:41] did that, we are doing it, we built Džemala Bedića Street, we gave a solution for
[00:30:45] it to be a road with four lanes with access from all sides and that is not
[00:30:49] a problem at all, it even completely revitalizes the area, but
[00:30:53] these expressways and highways they somehow create a barrier
[00:30:56] due to the calculated speed of driving, when you drive 80'.