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00:00:18Good afternoon, dear viewers, events
00:00:20today.
00:00:24A large fire in the Konjic area is not yet under
00:00:28control.
00:00:30The Main Board of the New Željezara Zenica Trade Union demands from the company's management to pay
00:00:34severance pay to all workers by August
00:00:3710th. New hearings of associates
00:00:41of the Srebrenica Memorial Center. The Center offers legal aid to
00:00:44current and former associates.
00:00:47A large fire in the Konjic area
00:00:52is not yet under control. In the villages of Kanjina and Ovčari,
00:00:56forest is burning on steep and inaccessible terrain in the area of the settlements
00:01:00Kanjina and Živašnica, the fire threatens residential buildings.
00:01:04Let's go live to our Nataša Kerezović, Nataša, how is the
00:01:08firefighting progressing?
00:01:10Yes, the situation with
00:01:16the fire in the Konjic area is still very
00:01:19complex and difficult, although yesterday
00:01:23morning fire brigades managed to bring
00:01:27under control. half of the fire sites that are in lower
00:01:30zones, currently the biggest problem is that
00:01:33the fire spread to the mountains,
00:01:37which is above the settlement of Kanjina, behind me
00:01:41we can see dense smoke spreading
00:01:44here on the mountain that is the main
00:01:48problem that firefighters are currently facing, that is extremely steep and
00:01:52inaccessible terrain, as we can see,
00:01:55it is dense smoke
00:01:58of the Memorial Center have received summons for that is spreading on... the peaks, although we were
00:02:02told that the fire sites that are near
00:02:05residential areas, houses, have been brought under control,
00:02:08we can see, we can notice that the wind is currently
00:02:12strong and the temperatures are still high, so all
00:02:16forces are still on the ground trying to
00:02:19deal with this fire,
00:02:21members of the professional fire brigade of Konjic, workers
00:02:25of Prenj forestry, civil protection service,
00:02:28locals spent the whole night on the ground to suppress
00:02:32the fire near residential buildings, houses in the lower
00:02:35parts, but here the line above Kanjina
00:02:39is still active, it still creates a problem,
00:02:42so aerial resources have been included in the action,
00:02:46and yesterday afternoon and evening
00:02:50at which helicopters of the armed forces of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Air
00:02:53tractor also operated, and this morning
00:02:56air forces continued to
00:03:00drop water on critical
00:03:02points to cut off further spread of the fire,
00:03:06this fire, we remind you, broke out in the early hours
00:03:10of the previous day in several locations along the railway
00:03:13line, around the settlements of Ovčari, Živašnica
00:03:17and Kanjina. The part of the fire that spread
00:03:21near roads yesterday, which
00:03:24caused certain landslides and posed a problem
00:03:28for traffic. It has been brought under control
00:03:32and now traffic is flowing smoothly with
00:03:36occasional police
00:03:39regulation. The authorities are, of course, appealing
00:03:43for caution given that high temperatures
00:03:46and weather conditions are still not
00:03:49favorable for extinguishing this fire,
00:03:53but as we have been told all available forces remain on
00:03:56the ground at full capacity until the fire
00:04:00is completely extinguished.
00:04:02So, we are here in the area
00:04:06between the settlements of Kanjina, Ovčari and
00:04:09Živašnica, and we see from the main
00:04:12road this smoke, but we assume that
00:04:16during the day, helicopters will appear and
00:04:19manage to extinguish this
00:04:21fire.
00:04:24Unfortunately, the fire is still active this morning. The big problem is that
00:04:28the fire is in an inaccessible area and it is
00:04:32very, very difficult to extinguish from
00:04:34the ground. From early morning we had help in the form of
00:04:38two helicopters, one is a helicopter of the armed forces, one
00:04:41helicopter from the Zenica-Doboj Canton, which
00:04:45operated on the fire.
00:04:48Firefighters, of course, all our local forces
00:04:50were engaged, we concentrated the focus of all these activities
00:04:54around the main roads and the main
00:04:57roads of the settlements,
00:05:00So, yesterday all day and night, from
00:05:04early morning, we have been actively working on extinguishing the fire and
00:05:07we have included all the resources we
00:05:10have in the area. Živašnica and Kanjina
00:05:14are most endangered,
00:05:17meaning we have buildings, houses, property,
00:05:20but our firefighters, our
00:05:24resources, there will certainly be no problem for the buildings, because it is never
00:05:27a problem for us to extinguish a fire where we can get to with vehicles, with
00:05:30water, the problem is always where we cannot
00:05:34get to with equipment, and then the fire can
00:05:38develop in various directions and become a huge fire, as it
00:05:42is now. "because the fire went into the rocks above the railway
00:05:45track, it is not possible to extinguish
00:05:49it from the ground only by air tractor and
00:05:53Canadair.
00:05:57So, we heard the statement from
00:06:00the Civil Protection of the city of Konjic, so the fire
00:06:04is still active in the mountains on steep
00:06:08and inaccessible terrain above the settlement
00:06:11of Kanjina. All forces are
00:06:15available on the ground, a few minutes ago we saw another
00:06:18fire truck that
00:06:22turned, that is, went towards the place
00:06:25from which dense smoke is visible
00:06:28spreading, so in two areas, the fire
00:06:32is localized, there is no
00:06:35danger for inhabited areas behind
00:06:39houses, however, the inaccessible terrain
00:06:42currently creates the biggest problem, ground
00:06:45teams cannot reach it, so
00:06:49aerial forces have been activated, i.e.
00:06:52helicopters and air tractors, so we are following
00:06:56the situation further and reporting from
00:06:59the field.
00:07:01Nataša Kerezović is following the fire in the municipality
00:07:04of Konjic.
00:07:08The Main Board of the New Željezara Zenica Trade Union demands from
00:07:11the company's management to pay severance pay to all workers by
00:07:15August 10th or they will go on strike. At today's
00:07:18conference, they emphasized that if protests occur, they invite
00:07:22citizens of Zenica to join them, because it is certain that
00:07:25there will be no district heating in that
00:07:28city next season.
00:07:30Demands for payment of severance pay for all
00:07:33workers by August 10th, otherwise,
00:07:36the plans of the workers' union
00:07:40are different, about which we will inform you during today's press conference.
00:07:44and notify you,
00:07:47as for the fight,
00:07:50you are aware, it has been going on for seven
00:07:53months, after all, since the new
00:07:56owners took over, we really, really gave our best to try to
00:08:00preserve, you know, integral production,
00:08:03jobs, well, up to this moment we haven't succeeded
00:08:07and what I want to say,
00:08:10really what was asked of me, "I mean, even from the management that I
00:08:13apologize to the workers and so on, I will
00:08:16never apologize, because I have no reason to apologize, I clearly
00:08:20claim that I honestly and fairly performed my
00:08:23duty, tried to protect
00:08:27jobs and integral production, this was
00:08:31too difficult and unequal fight, we are not
00:08:34giving up today, but for new options, time
00:08:37is needed, we knew that the chances of success were not
00:08:41great, but that shouldn't have been a reason not to try with
00:08:44the aim of preserving jobs and steel production, we gave our best,
00:08:48more than that we had great media support,
00:08:52for which we are truly grateful, we did everything to save jobs
00:08:55and start production, because
00:08:59of that we will never apologize to anyone, I repeat that again, we raised
00:09:03the federation to its feet, the government, then the parliament, more
00:09:06or less we informed both the media
00:09:09and everyone, since the new owners came in, we did everything
00:09:13in our power to save production, I repeat again,
00:09:16I emphasize those things, we reacted to all possible
00:09:19problems, we sought reactions from
00:09:23the responsible institutions, there was no one
00:09:26we didn't turn to, as they say, we reacted for days and weeks,
00:09:30pointing out Serbia's decision to introduce import
00:09:33quotas for steel in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and
00:09:36reacted to the Council of Ministers, Minister Košarac,
00:09:39the CEFTA Secretariat. Indeed,
00:09:43in this past period, I think we gave
00:09:46500% of ourselves, I also want to mention that we organized
00:09:50protests before the Council of Ministers on March 23rd, where there were
00:09:52about 600 of our colleagues,
00:09:55really, I must mention this,
00:09:59the management said that it was the only reason for
00:10:01stopping integral production,
00:10:05March 23rd, the Council of Ministers' failure to adopt a decision
00:10:08on imports and protection of domestic production,
00:10:12we must say that on December 17th they filed
00:10:15a request for bankruptcy, it is obvious that they
00:10:19were three months ahead and that they
00:10:22knew, you know, that it would come to that.
00:10:26"If it's not finished by the 10th regarding
00:10:28our demands, on the 11th, all of us workers,
00:10:32our families, we will call the citizens
00:10:35of Zenica in front of the main directorate, it is certain that
00:10:39we will not withdraw until our demands are met
00:10:42and I must mention that this very much concerns
00:10:45the citizens of Zenica because
00:10:4899% will be left without heating, which
00:10:52Mr. Hamzić immediately threatened at the beginning, saying that he has a model
00:10:56how to deny citizens heating.
00:10:59The previous period was very difficult in the context
00:11:03of the complete situation, the development
00:11:05of events. What we currently have on the scene is
00:11:09a different way of fighting against
00:11:12what the trade union advocates for, i.e., for the continuation of production and the preservation
00:11:16of jobs, is that the entire situation
00:11:19is intended to be shifted, or the responsibility for the entire
00:11:22situation, to the trade union,
00:11:25which is, to put it mildly, unfair,
00:11:28and we are all aware that the
00:11:32management's responsibility is huge, and my colleague mentioned,
00:11:35and you followed that during the past months, what was promised
00:11:39and to what extent, what
00:11:42renaissance there was regarding the new Željezara Zenica, we are in
00:11:45a situation where we are considering bankruptcy,
00:11:49i.e., the termination of contracts for all workers. What is
00:11:53very important to emphasize in this whole situation is that we have been
00:11:57open and transparent, so today's invitation to the management for
00:12:00addressing at a joint press conference
00:12:04clearly shows in which direction the management is thinking, ultimately
00:12:07as a result of all that, we have this situation that we have today,
00:12:11next week a decision should be made
00:12:15on the proposal for bankruptcy of the new Željezara Zenica,
00:12:18which was submitted by the management of the new Željezara
00:12:22Zenica as early as December
00:12:2517, 2025. Their intention was for that bankruptcy
00:12:28to start already in the new year, well, thank
00:12:31God, thanks to the activities of the trade union and drawing
00:12:35attention to the importance of Željezara Zenica, here
00:12:38we are still alive today and people are employed, they received seven
00:12:42salaries, in the past period they received vacation pay and financial aid under the collective
00:12:45agreement, all rights.
00:12:48If the court makes
00:12:50a decision on initiating bankruptcy proceedings, this will result
00:12:54in the termination of all
00:12:56employment contracts, meaning for all
00:12:591480 workers who are currently
00:13:01employed, bearing in mind that
00:13:05fact, the main board of the new Željezara trade union
00:13:08and I was present at the meeting held its extraordinary meeting
00:13:12this morning at 9 am,
00:13:15conclusions and demands were adopted,
00:13:18which I will now read, we
00:13:21will of course distribute them to you in printed form so that you can
00:13:25present them further to the public, so number one,
00:13:29we demand from the management of Nova Željezara Zenica to pay
00:13:33severance pay based on technological surplus to all workers before the opening
00:13:36of bankruptcy, in the amount in accordance with Article 111 of the Labor
00:13:39Law, the request for payment of severance pay does not mean
00:13:43our giving up the fight for production and jobs, but
00:13:47securing the existential basis for workers until
00:13:50the eventual resumption of production, entering
00:13:53bankruptcy converts into a claim in bankruptcy
00:13:57for which it is difficult to predict when it will be realized.
00:14:01Second: we demand immediate measures to take care
00:14:04of workers who will lose their jobs, financing
00:14:08retraining, additional training, mediation
00:14:11in finding a job with another employer, subsidies for
00:14:14employment with another employer, so-called voucher
00:14:18employment, purchase of years of service in accordance with the law, as well as
00:14:21material assistance. The bearers of these activities must be the Management
00:14:25of Nova Željezara Zrenica and the Government of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina as
00:14:29co-owners, each in accordance with their
00:14:32competencies. Under three. We demand from
00:14:35the employment service of the Zenica-Doboj Canton
00:14:37to immediately take action to secure
00:14:41the necessary funds for the payment of monetary compensation for
00:14:44unemployment to workers who register with the labor office, or
00:14:48to request the missing funds in a timely manner
00:14:51from the Federal Employment Agency, such is the procedure
00:14:55written in the Law on Employment Mediation, meaning if the employment service of the Zenica-Doboj Canton
00:14:58estimates that it will not have enough
00:15:01funds, it must address the founder, which is the canton,
00:15:05and then together they address the Federal Employment Service which should
00:15:08allocate the missing funds, it is estimated that more
00:15:12than a thousand workers of Nova Željezara Zenica could initially
00:15:15register with the employment service for their benefits, bearing
00:15:19in mind that this benefit is 40% of the average salary in the federation, or some
00:15:22600.80 marks, and the average duration of payments would be about 12
00:15:26months, so for their benefits about
00:15:30900,000 marks per month would be needed,
00:15:32which is more than 10 million, meaning for those approximately
00:15:36one year.
00:15:39Fourth, we demand the continuation of negotiations and activities
00:15:43of the Federation Government and the management
00:15:46to ensure conditions for the re-launch
00:15:49of production with the employment of as many
00:15:52workers as possible. Otherwise, we demand from the Government of the Federation of BiH to submit
00:15:56a new proposal for the opening of extraordinary administration proceedings in
00:15:59Nova Željezara Zenica in accordance with a special
00:16:02law. Under five. The facilities
00:16:06for integral steel production of the company Nova Željezara
00:16:09Zenica are a resource of special strategic importance for the Federation of Bosnia
00:16:13and Herzegovina. We demand from the Government of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina to
00:16:17ensure by appropriate legal, statutory
00:16:20or other means that they must not be
00:16:23destroyed, damaged, alienated, mortgaged
00:16:26or encumbered in any other way
00:16:29except with the explicit consent of the Federation Government as
00:16:33co-owner of Nova Željezara
00:16:36Zenica. The factory is there, you all see it,
00:16:39the factory won't go anywhere, what is currently happening doesn't mean that
00:16:43it will never work again, the blast furnace was renovated in 2018,
00:16:47over 50 million marks were invested, it can
00:16:50work for the next 15 to 20 years without any problems,
00:16:54if, of course, the conditions
00:16:57are met, meaning we are not
00:17:00giving up, absolutely, this is perhaps the end of the first
00:17:03half for us, this match has a second half, with all our
00:17:07might we will try to get that factory running again, to get people, and as many
00:17:11people as possible, back to
00:17:12work.
00:17:16From the Srebrenica Memorial Center, it was announced that the hearings of employees
00:17:19and associates of the Memorial Center have continued,
00:17:23both current and former. The center's management
00:17:26called on all affected parties to contact
00:17:29them immediately to organize legal protection. So far,
00:17:3328 associates
00:17:36questioning. due to an investigation into alleged tax
00:17:39evasion.
00:17:42A conference is being held in Sarajevo on the position of constituent peoples and
00:17:45others in institutions in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Here's what the conference
00:17:49speakers, Minister of Foreign Affairs Elmedin Konaković and
00:17:52MP Šemsudin Mehmedović, said.
00:17:56Today we will for the first time have an
00:17:59international conference that will open some
00:18:03issues that are
00:18:05very important in relations.
00:18:07between ethnic groups in Bosnia and Herzegovina, first
00:18:11of all, respect, or rather non-respect of the constitutional provisions of Bosnia
00:18:15and Herzegovina in terms of not only ethnic
00:18:18representation, but also in terms of the functioning of the institutions
00:18:21of Bosnia and Herzegovina, which are obviously
00:18:24captured by anti-Bosnian political factors in
00:18:28Bosnia and Herzegovina. For this reason, it will be very interesting
00:18:32to see, based on
00:18:35analyses and clearly
00:18:38and precisely determined data, where the
00:18:42constituent peoples are today in
00:18:45terms of the functioning of the institutions of Bosnia and Herzegovina,
00:18:49and what is very important is to see
00:18:51what the attitude of our neighbors is towards
00:18:55political proxies in Bosnia and Herzegovina who behave
00:18:58completely anti-Bosnian when it comes to the interests of the state of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
00:19:02For this reason, we will not count
00:19:05"blood cells", as they say,
00:19:08but we want to clearly point out
00:19:12the problem of the disappearance, extinction,
00:19:15not only political, but every other influence
00:19:17of the most numerous people in Bosnia and Herzegovina, which can
00:19:21lead to the radicalization of the political scene,
00:19:25can lead to the non-functioning
00:19:28of a complete blockade of all institutions in Bosnia
00:19:31and Herzegovina, for this reason I invite you
00:19:34to follow today's presentations at
00:19:38the conference, it will certainly be very
00:19:40interesting
00:19:42to look at and listen to the data that we will present based on
00:19:46serious analyses that were made primarily by
00:19:49competent experts in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Thank
00:19:52you very much.
00:19:54Mr. Minister, please. Thank you.
00:19:58Good morning, I greet you all, I thank my colleague Mehmedović for this introductory
00:20:02address and I can really say I am happy that today
00:20:06institutionally we have a topic that is mostly
00:20:09used to stir up the political atmosphere,
00:20:12most often in pre-election time, apart
00:20:15from those who do it in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the influence
00:20:18of other countries is increasingly noticeable, and this resolution adopted
00:20:22in the Croatian Parliament was perhaps the trigger, I announced this topic
00:20:25earlier and we wanted to do it sometime in
00:20:29the spring of this year, due to some obligations we didn't, so
00:20:33in the meantime we have that resolution and my colleague Mehmedović has been dealing with this topic since the very
00:20:37beginning of this mandate when he received
00:20:40those shocking figures in the Council of Ministers that speak about the real position
00:20:44of the constituent peoples in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the resolution was
00:20:47a trigger to return to the framework of arguments, to return
00:20:51to the real situation, to numbers, to define, first
00:20:55of all, terms that some misuse in Bosnia and
00:20:58Herzegovina, what is constituent status, what is legitimate
00:21:00representation, what do the laws of Bosnia and Herzegovina say,
00:21:03I am really happy that we have a serious response today at this
00:21:07conference, I am a little disappointed that from Croatia, where this
00:21:10resolution was adopted, today we have Dalija
00:21:13Orešković as a panelist in this second part and the head of the SDP club and
00:21:17the head of the HDZ club did not respond to our invitation,
00:21:20if they have good intentions, I expected them to be here today to discuss
00:21:24it, and we again invite them to open a constructive
00:21:28dialogue, and the government of Andrej Plenković, of course, and
00:21:31his associates with whom we have many good examples,
00:21:35but obviously this neuralgic point is something we
00:21:38need to discuss further, apart from that issue
00:21:42that the Croatian side raises, which is completely
00:21:45constitutional, legal, legitimate at the state level and concerns
00:21:48the position of the member of the presidency. Most Bosniak leaders
00:21:52commented on whether it is fair or not, and we all have the right to
00:21:55our own views, so there are a series
00:21:59of other indicators that are shockingly to the detriment
00:22:02of Bosniaks in this country, it's not a weakness, it was the desire
00:22:06of previous authorities, that maybe precisely because
00:22:09it is about the smallest constituent people, they would meet them halfway
00:22:13in some positioning, but then when today you have those who disregard
00:22:17all that, do not appreciate and understand at least
00:22:21problematize one issue, then they roughly interfere with the constitutional order
00:22:25in Bosnia and Herzegovina, we believe that such a response today
00:22:28is institutional, official, expert, there will be many people who
00:22:31know this area, this area, truly the only right
00:22:34way of communicating, there will be a lot of information,
00:22:38interesting topics, thank you for coming, of course we remain available
00:22:42in the coming days after this conference to
00:22:45discuss it, I will just ask some questions, for example, at the state level.
00:22:49there are 36 institutions
00:22:53in which leading personnel are appointed, since
00:22:56the time of Adnan Terzić's government, the structure is 12 12 12,
00:23:00I ask why, it is nowhere prescribed, why would Croats and Bosniaks have 12 each
00:23:03leading positions when
00:23:07the Constitution of Bosnia and Herzegovina says that
00:23:10in that kind of
00:23:12positioning, proportionate representation will be taken into account,
00:23:16i.e. the composition of the Council of Ministers itself, rotations at the head of the Council
00:23:19of Ministers, the composition of the Constitutional Court, a series of other
00:23:22institutions, we will draw a parallel today and how it is
00:23:25in the cantons where the
00:23:28government is under the control of HDZ, and how in other
00:23:32cantons, for example, the city of Sarajevo as an example in its statute
00:23:36prescribes that the structure of the city council looks like six Bosniaks, six
00:23:39Croats, six Serbs, four, I think, others, then seven are elected
00:23:43or some number from this concept of votes, so
00:23:46in the leaderships of councils, in governments, in the leaderships of cantons.
00:23:50we will make a comparison of how it is with those who misuse
00:23:54this topic for political
00:23:58purposes and actually blur the picture of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the goal
00:24:01is not for us to argue here, but the goal is to
00:24:04channel the discussion so that we can eventually more easily reach
00:24:08some solutions, and in fact we only have one goal, how to move
00:24:12from these discussions to the essential ones, you have again
00:24:15seen the information from the Statistical Office which shows that Bosnia and
00:24:19Herzegovina... is demographically disappearing, that the BiH entity Republika
00:24:22Srpska is disappearing twice as fast, that the mortality
00:24:26and birth rates are catastrophic, that people are still leaving,
00:24:29so I ask those who only want to talk about
00:24:33legitimate representation what that kind of discussion
00:24:36has brought to the citizens of Bosnia and Herzegovina so far.
00:24:38Thank you.
00:24:48In the continuation of the news. you see in the studio with me is Esmir Milavić, Esmir,
00:24:52good day, good day, Amir, what is the situation with reserves in America due to
00:24:56the war in Iran? Well, the reserves are,
00:24:59it seems, exhausted, but Donald
00:25:03Trump says that those who talk about these
00:25:07reserves are traitors, he says, we have
00:25:10unlimited supplies. No country in the world has unlimited
00:25:13supplies, so neither do the United States, and
00:25:17uh, when he starts threatening someone, he knows that
00:25:20probably that other person is not right,
00:25:23the American president, also, what is very interesting, he
00:25:27shows a great deal of nervousness because of
00:25:30the primaries that were held in
00:25:33the past few days and now, when it comes to, say,
00:25:37Michigan, I'm putting this together with these two things, because if the Democrats
00:25:41win the elections, Trump knows that numerous things will have
00:25:45to be clarified within
00:25:48his administration, what was done, he says: if they win in
00:25:51the Senate, al-Saed says, they will get
00:25:54votes in the House of Representatives, in the Senate, they will have
00:25:58a majority, it seems that he already feels it and
00:26:02says: "it will lead to changes in the Supreme Court, because he says, there will be
00:26:0523 judges, no one within the Democrats ever
00:26:08said 23, they said 13 judges to
00:26:12expand the composition of the current nine members, he says that
00:26:16it could lead to him being the last Republican
00:26:20uh president, uh I don't believe that there is such
00:26:23a possibility that one or the other party can
00:26:27completely remain in power, but
00:26:30uh what Trump here simply..." shows is already
00:26:33nervousness about what could happen in November, that's
00:26:37why he behaves like this, threatening "traitors" who
00:26:41provide information to the media about what is happening with the war
00:26:45in Iran, which absolutely is not going as
00:26:48planned. The information favors Zelensky, well,
00:26:51the man has been the president of Ukraine for a long time, it's logical that his rating has dropped,
00:26:55but that it has dropped so low, well now
00:26:58complete, complete trust in Zelensky
00:27:01gives. 18% of respondents in the latest
00:27:04survey, 24.5% say
00:27:07that they somewhat trust him, little trust,
00:27:1117% of respondents,
00:27:1337% of respondents in this poll say that
00:27:17they do not trust him at all, General
00:27:20Zaluzhny, who is the head, former chief of
00:27:22staff, now mm
00:27:25ambassador to Great Britain has
00:27:28extremely high support, that's what should concern
00:27:32uh President Zelensky. In front of
00:27:35him is another person, and that is Mykhailo
00:27:38Fedorov, the former Minister of Defense, because of whom these
00:27:42last problems arose for Zelensky, so
00:27:46at this moment we have a situation in
00:27:48which Zelensky has less and less support at a time when he is
00:27:52visiting Serbia, but also when there is more and more talk about
00:27:56elections that could happen in Ukraine, despite
00:27:59the war still ongoing. That there is no possibility
00:28:03for elections to be held across the entire territory of Ukraine.
00:28:07Let's go to Gaza, the peace committee that should manage that
00:28:10area, made a small agreement
00:28:13in a camp exactly, a small camp for
00:28:16150 soldiers who should be
00:28:19the backbone of something that could happen
00:28:23sometime in the future related to the reconstruction of Gaza,
00:28:27security
00:28:31uh new infrastruc- structure, allegedly there should have been
00:28:345,000 soldiers in that security force, but at this moment there will only be
00:28:38150 people, these 150 people cannot do
00:28:41anything against several thousand
00:28:44people who have weapons, further heavy weapons within
00:28:48Hamas, so
00:28:50from reconstruction and renovation and
00:28:53security and change of the situation on the ground,
00:28:57I think that for a long period of time there will
00:29:01be nothing and this again shows
00:29:04that these partial plans uh
00:29:07not unstructured plans but something
00:29:10conceived hastily simply do not work, that everything
00:29:14that is currently being done regarding Gaza and Ukraine and
00:29:18the Middle East when it comes to the American administration
00:29:21absolutely uh does not work, that
00:29:25there is no old
00:29:28diplomatic approach, let's prepare everything and then we will try to
00:29:32realize it on the ground as soon as possible, because this should have started
00:29:36being realized last year in November, well, until
00:29:39August of this year, nothing has moved. It will be underestimated,
00:29:43but Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Pakistan, a defense alliance,
00:29:47it's not a bad alliance, not a bad alliance
00:29:50and here practically, uh,
00:29:54Erdogan sends a message to Donald
00:29:57Trump, because after the summit in Ankara, he promised him F35s.
00:30:00Now he is rethinking, and
00:30:02now Erdogan says, I'm going to sit with these
00:30:06two others and talk, that is, with Mohammed bin Salman
00:30:09and Shabaz Sharif, and here is a very
00:30:12important thing, uh,
00:30:15through this, Pakistan will provide
00:30:19a kind of nuclear umbrella to Saudi
00:30:22Arabia, it says joint defense and strengthening
00:30:26deterrence, that is a message to Israel, that is a message to
00:30:29Iran, that is a message to the rest of
00:30:32uh the region, all three of them,
00:30:35also, uh,
00:30:38they have a kind of NATO Article Five, meaning
00:30:41if one is attacked, all are mm attacked, and another
00:30:45very important factor here is cooperation within the
00:30:49intelligence community, we know that Pakistan has a very
00:30:52strong intelligence community when it comes to that part of the world, Turkey plays
00:30:56a very important geostrategic role here.
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