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00:00:18Good afternoon, dear viewers, events
00:00:23to protect maritime routes in of the day. A large fire in the area of
00:00:26Konjic is not yet under control.
00:00:31The Main Board of the Union of the New Zenica Steelworks demands from
00:00:35the company's management the payment of severance pay to all
00:00:38workers by August
00:00:4010th.
00:00:43New hearings of associates of the Srebrenica Memorial Center,
00:00:47the center offers legal aid for current and former
00:00:49associates.
00:00:55A large fire in the area of Konjic is not yet under
00:00:59control. The situation is more difficult in the area of
00:01:02the settlements of Kanjina and Živašnica where the fire
00:01:05threatens residential buildings.
00:01:26Firefighters and locals fought the fire during the night, but...
00:01:30Inaccessible terrain and demanding conditions further hinder
00:01:34the fight against the fire. In some places, the fire has approached houses
00:01:37to within a hundred meters, and today, a helicopter of the armed
00:01:41forces of Bosnia and Herzegovina, as the fire.
00:01:44well as a helicopter of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Zenica-Doboj Canton, are engaged in extinguishing
00:01:48The Ministry of Defense states that this is one of the most complex
00:01:52tasks performed by members of the air force brigade
00:01:55and air defense due to the inaccessible
00:01:59terrain and working conditions. Additional difficulties
00:02:02are created by dense smoke above the fire site, which hinders aerial
00:02:06extinguishing.
00:02:09Very, very difficult situation, you see that we are fighting the fire here to save residential
00:02:13buildings, that is our priority today to save, so
00:02:16after we save residential buildings, they will start working, it seems to me that
00:02:20bigger tractors are working from Mostar, armed forces from Zenica
00:02:23Doboj Canton, civil protection, it's a difficult
00:02:26situation, we have, you see, there are still residential
00:02:30buildings in question, the situation on
00:02:33all fire fronts, the fire front up towards Džepska
00:02:36mountain, here on the right and left flank, the fire is really
00:02:40spreading abnormally, it's a very, very difficult situation, how many
00:02:43people are currently on the ground, we have somewhere with a professional fire brigade, a voluntary
00:02:47fire department in Konjic, forestry, currently around
00:02:5035 people on
00:02:54the ground, I was there last night, there was nothing dangerous, it was
00:02:57burning below Kanjina and and I am here
00:03:01above the train station, above the tracks, I have it here so I can see what
00:03:05the situation is, yesterday morning they said that the fire appeared in
00:03:09three places, Ovčari and Kanjina, it wasn't there until
00:03:12last night, I think, something was around
00:03:16eight, that it had already spread here, it was burning there all
00:03:19day, it wasn't really here, there was a little smoke, but not
00:03:22too much, then at night, around 3:30
00:03:26it went completely up to this house, the firefighters were
00:03:29here..." it went out this morning when I woke up around
00:03:33seven, it went all the way down to that house up there,
00:03:37it was contained, it went out, they went now it has gone up there, now I don't know what's
00:03:40up there, I haven't been there and
00:03:44that's it, what is this, we don't even know ourselves what
00:03:47happened yesterday, was your house in
00:03:50danger yesterday night, yes, yes, yes, there was
00:03:54danger because there is this hill up there, the hill had
00:03:57come down close to
00:03:58that's all for this news overview, thank you for the house, it was dangerous for us. really, so do
00:04:02you expect this fire to be extinguished by when? Well, I expect
00:04:06the authorities to succeed and help us, because
00:04:10we are really in danger, we are worried.
00:04:12The Main Board of the Union of the New
00:04:16Zenica Steelworks demands from the company's management the payment of
00:04:19severance pay to all workers by August 10th of this
00:04:22year, and if that does not happen, they announce protests on August
00:04:2611th in front of the administrative building and a shutdown in the plants.
00:04:31we have a noose around our neck,
00:04:34uh, bankruptcy, and simply let's try, right, to
00:04:38solve one problem before it comes, but
00:04:42as I say, we still don't know, we are not, we are not in our heads,
00:04:46judge, so we will see if it will come to that, but
00:04:50let's try, right, to take a step forward
00:04:53to be,
00:04:56what we currently have on the scene is one...
00:05:00a different way of fighting what the union advocates,
00:05:04i.e., for the continuation of production and the preservation of jobs,
00:05:06that
00:05:08is, to completely shift this situation, or rather, the responsibility
00:05:12for the entire situation to the
00:05:14union, which is, to put it mildly,
00:05:18incorrect and we are all
00:05:21aware that the management's responsibility is enormous, and
00:05:24my colleague mentioned, and you followed it during
00:05:28the past months, what was all promised, in what proportion
00:05:31what renaissance regarding the new
00:05:34Zenica Steelworks, here we are in a situation
00:05:37to think about
00:05:41bankruptcy, i.e., dismissal. agreement for all
00:05:43workers,
00:05:45ultimately, as a result of all that, we have this situation we have
00:05:49today. The next session should decide
00:05:53on the proposal for the bankruptcy of the new Zenica Steelworks
00:05:56which was submitted by the management of the new Zenica Steelworks
00:06:00on December 17th,
00:06:022025.
00:06:04Their intention was for that bankruptcy to start already from the new
00:06:07year, well, thank God, thanks to
00:06:11the activities... of the union and drawing attention to the importance of the Zenica
00:06:14Steelworks, here we are still alive today and people are
00:06:18employed, they received seven salaries in the past period, they received regression
00:06:22monetary aid according to the collective agreement, all
00:06:24rights, if the court makes
00:06:28a decision on opening bankruptcy proceedings, this will result in
00:06:31the termination of all employment
00:06:34contracts, meaning for all 1480 workers currently
00:06:38employed. Two of the 11 Zenica
00:06:42miners of the Zenica Brown Coal Mine
00:06:46were forced to leave the Raspotočje pit due to poor health,
00:06:50where they had spent three
00:06:53nights. Two miners became ill, after which they left
00:06:56the pit accompanied by Union President Nedžad
00:06:59Duraković. Emergency medical services intervened and one of the miners
00:07:03was transported to the Zenica cantonal hospital, while the other
00:07:06miner's health condition improved, and he wants to
00:07:09return to the pit. The miners continue their protest. due to
00:07:12unpaid salaries for May and June, as of yesterday, they are once again
00:07:16temporarily able to certify their health
00:07:18insurance cards.
00:07:21In Srebrenica Police Station today, another four people
00:07:25connected to the Srebrenica Memorial Center were interrogated, increasing the number of those
00:07:29interrogated so far to seven, while the list of persons to be
00:07:32interrogated totals
00:07:3526. The representative of the Memorial Center, Edin Nikanović,
00:07:39stated that today statements were given by three people who had previously collaborated
00:07:43with the Memorial Center and one current associate, and that the
00:07:46interrogations were conducted in the presence of lawyers. He announced
00:07:50that the Memorial Center, in consultation with the legal team and
00:07:53lawyer, will consider further steps regarding
00:07:56the interrogations.
00:08:06US President Donald Trump publicly acknowledged that stockpiles of certain
00:08:10types of ammunition and missiles in the United States
00:08:13have been reduced, but claims that the military is still extremely strong.
00:08:17According to reports, the military during the war with Iran spent almost four
00:08:21fifths of its stock of Tad missiles and half
00:08:24of its Patriot interceptors. Trump sharply condemned the leakage
00:08:27of this information to the media, calling it a threat
00:08:30to national security. Due to reduced stockpiles and concerns
00:08:34of allies in the Gulf, the American President ordered the Justice
00:08:38Department to investigate, while demanding an immediate increase from the defense industry.
00:08:51that we have unlimited virtual unlimited supply, we have
00:08:54others where it's a little bit tighter, we have certain types
00:08:58of munitions which are very, they may not
00:09:01be as accurate, they may not be, they're not as elite, we
00:09:05have elite to, but we're we're watching
00:09:08that very closely, but we have certain types
00:09:11which are... very powerful and very
00:09:14good, and we have an unlimited supply,
00:09:18and so we're in great shape, but uh, with that being
00:09:21said, we always want more, we have to have more,
00:09:25we have other things maybe come up, you maybe come up and maybe don't come up,
00:09:28hopefully nothing else does come up, but we're in very good shape, we
00:09:31have literally massive amounts of
00:09:33ammunition,
00:09:37Donald Trump's peace committee issued the first contract for the reconstruction of Gaza
00:09:40which foresees the construction of a small military base for 150 Moroccan
00:09:44soldiers as part of international stabilization forces. The project
00:09:48was awarded to the American company Arkel International
00:09:51and will be built in an area under the control of the Israeli army, although
00:09:55complete reconstruction and the New Gaza project were previously announced.
00:09:58The plan has been reduced to a miniature pilot project. In
00:10:02the meantime, most of the two million residents of Gaza continue to live
00:10:05in difficult conditions in camps without access to
00:10:08drinking water, while Amnesty International warns of thousands
00:10:12of bodies trapped
00:10:13under the rubble.
00:10:17Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Pakistan today in Jeddah
00:10:20signed a key trilateral defense
00:10:23agreement. For closer military coordination, the agreement covers
00:10:27intelligence sharing, joint military exercises, and
00:10:31cooperation in the defense industry. The pact combines
00:10:34the economic power of Saudi Arabia, the military technology of Turkey as a NATO
00:10:38member, and the nuclear potential of Pakistan.
00:10:41The agreement comes as a direct response to the escalating conflict between the US
00:10:45and Iran and aims
00:10:48the Red Sea and the Strait of Hormuz.
00:10:50At least seven people
00:10:53died in Thailand when
00:10:56a fourteen-year-old student carried out a deadly attack in a prestigious
00:11:00high school near Bangkok. The boy first
00:11:03killed his grandparents in the family home, then used his
00:11:07grandfather's pistol to kill teachers and students at school,
00:11:10after which he took his own life. More than 15
00:11:14people were injured, while frightened students saved themselves by locking themselves in
00:11:17classrooms and escaping over the fence. The motive for the crime is not
00:11:21yet known.
00:11:27I saw that he used a 9mm caliber pistol, in
00:11:30the bag he carried over his shoulder he had a pistol
00:11:33magazine and about 20 to 30 more bullets, when I arrived
00:11:37there was complete chaos, the students we found
00:11:40outside were also wounded in the back, chest
00:11:44and arms, we provided them with first aid, the student
00:11:47was still
00:11:49shooting at that moment.
00:12:36Bojan Lipovšćak brings the weather forecast.
00:12:40Good day, what weather awaits us today until the end of
00:12:44the day? The cold front is located
00:12:47north of the Alps, a smaller part of it has passed over the Alpine
00:12:51barrier, it was bypassed by a small amount of unstable
00:12:55air that penetrated over the northern Adriatic
00:12:58and over the northwestern parts of the
00:13:02interior of the Balkans. That
00:13:05cold front will pass very quickly north of
00:13:09the Alps and will not bring a significant change in weather for
00:13:12us. For now, we will have sunny and stable weather.
00:13:16Namely, behind the cold front, the ridge
00:13:19of the anticyclone strengthens
00:13:22and the weather stabilizes again. So this is a short
00:13:25transient small bite, a bite of
00:13:28winter, which only interrupted
00:13:30the heatwave in places. Today we will
00:13:34mostly have sunny weather with moderate to
00:13:38strong development of daily cloudiness, so
00:13:41only occasional showers and
00:13:44thunderstorms are possible. The highest daily temperatures will
00:13:48be high, hot, above
00:13:5130°C, in Herzegovina up to
00:13:5438°C.
00:13:57The sea is very warm,
00:13:5928°C, so
00:14:01it is very pleasant for swimming, and
00:14:05the ultraviolet index is
00:14:07also high and very high. On the Adriatic, the scirocco will blow,
00:14:11while in the northern part of the Adriatic, the bora will blow.
00:14:14You can follow more about the weather on our info
00:14:18našim info
00:14:19channels,
00:14:23your attention, goodbye.
00:14:45A new day begins. Sponsor of the show:
00:14:47Medicana Health
00:14:49Group.
00:14:59The announced miners' protest for today has been canceled after an agreement
00:15:02was reached yesterday on solving the problem of health
00:15:06insurance for miners from the Zenica-Doboj
00:15:09Canton, but the miners' problems are far
00:15:13from solved, debts remain, working conditions, the question
00:15:16of the future of the mines, perhaps most importantly, what will happen to
00:15:19miners in the process of energy transition, about that, but also about
00:15:23the situation in the defense industry and other important topics from his
00:15:26department, we talk with the Federal Minister of Energy and
00:15:30Mining, but also Industry, Vedran Lakić, good morning to you, thank you very much for
00:15:33taking the time, good morning to you, thank you for the invitation, mm, here... a small
00:15:37reminder of course of how yesterday only temporarily
00:15:40solved the problem of miners related to health
00:15:43insurance, however, the Health Insurance Institute also
00:15:47invites you and the government to additional negotiations, they say
00:15:50that a more sustainable model must be found very soon, that at
00:15:54some, as they stated, of the meetings that were expected to happen in these
00:15:58previous days, it seems to me that they say you were not present, what is
00:16:02it that you can, will you plan
00:16:04to do regarding this issue in the coming period? Well, it's
00:16:08not true that there were no meetings, I was certainly at three or
00:16:12four meetings and directly communicated with the director of the Health
00:16:16Insurance Institute of the Zenica-Doboj Canton and
00:16:19we explained to each other what the situation is, what it's about, we cannot
00:16:23get into a situation where uh we correct 20, 30
00:16:27years of negligence in the mining sector and non-payment of contributions in
00:16:30one month or in one day to somehow
00:16:34make miners conditionally without health care.
00:16:37"I offered the director of the Health Insurance Institute to go towards
00:16:41a systemic solution, not for miners to suffer
00:16:44at this moment, because that is the only sustainable thing for the coming period, everything that will happen
00:16:48uh in the future must be accompanied by
00:16:51a systemic solution, what we did with the fair
00:16:55transition project with which we will ensure
00:16:58miners and the community that we will take care of them in the most adequate way
00:17:01and that we will pay all contributions for pension and disability
00:17:04insurance is a project."
00:17:07a project that we prepared and worked on for two years, now
00:17:11it is coming to implementation, soon this credit will be effective,
00:17:14so we can already now take a
00:17:18systemic approach to solving these problems, on the other
00:17:20hand, we proposed to the parliament amendments and
00:17:24additions to the law on financial consolidation with which we want
00:17:27to utilize non-perspective assets, sell
00:17:31mining assets, and in that way provide for all those
00:17:34whose contributions have not been paid for the last 20 years, which is truly
00:17:38a huge problem for the mining sector, these are the ways
00:17:42these things are solved, these things are not solved in one month, in
00:17:46one day. I absolutely understand the position of the Health Insurance
00:17:49Institute of the Zenica-Doboj Canton, pardon me, not only of that
00:17:53canton, but also of other cantons, I said that to the director, I am
00:17:57a child of the Health Insurance Institute from Tuzla Canton, because that was my first
00:18:01job and I absolutely understand the way of
00:18:05thinking, it is also part of the state apparatus, part of the state
00:18:08system that offers health care to insured persons,
00:18:12for that reason, I absolutely support efforts towards a systemic
00:18:16solution, but this cannot be done with only one
00:18:18ministry, we have cantons that are absolutely responsible for
00:18:22the Health Insurance Institute of Tuzla Canton, because health
00:18:26care is divided between cantons and the Federation, we have the Federal Ministry
00:18:30of Health, within which is the Health Insurance and Reinsurance Institute
00:18:34of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, we have the Ministry of Labor and Social Policy. So
00:18:37that is a wide circle that needs to be included in the systemic
00:18:41resolution of this problem, this cannot be done in
00:18:44one month, and I think that the director of the Health
00:18:48Insurance Institute is aware of that, and of course, we now have
00:18:52uh the definition of a systemic solution because neither
00:18:55our citizens should be left without health care, contributions for health care are
00:18:59paid exactly what I want to ask you, what and how
00:19:03does that definition of a systemic solution look like because
00:19:05for many, I believe, viewers and certainly mining
00:19:09families, perhaps especially, that
00:19:12term "systemic solution" does not mean much, if there is a threat that
00:19:15a similar problem will be repeated after these 30 days, absolutely,
00:19:19well, one of the first and short-term, so to speak,
00:19:23solutions is that our mines start
00:19:26paying a higher amount of contributions to the health insurance
00:19:29institutes in the cantons where we have our mines, and we agreed on
00:19:33this in three or four meetings, some of these meetings were also
00:19:37by phone, so to speak, but my presence was always
00:19:40there, so that would be short-term, meaning we have to start
00:19:44allocating more for health insurance to have
00:19:47continuity, and in parallel with that, seek a systemic solution, I said that, and
00:19:51what are the chances that this will happen, that the problem will not be repeated soon? Well, it happened,
00:19:55it happened, here's the fair transition project, so we're entering it,
00:19:58amendments to the law on financial consolidation have happened, we're entering
00:20:02it, meaning we have to move forward and solve it, these are debts
00:20:06accumulated over a billion. KM are debts for
00:20:09contributions of the entire mining sector that have been accumulating for 20, perhaps
00:20:12even more years, meaning it cannot be solved in this way, but
00:20:16we must try to create a solution for the future, I think that now we should
00:20:20use the time in the next month or two to define what it is that
00:20:24we will do in 2027 and in the coming years, because this is an acute problem
00:20:27that cannot be broken over the backs of miners, mhm, what is
00:20:31most important to define for now for these coming months for the beginning of
00:20:352027? Absolutely, already the
00:20:38for health insurance institutes, for health care contributions, that is
00:20:41the first and foremost thing we must do, that in order to be, we come into a
00:20:45situation where we have to increase coal production, which, thank God, has been
00:20:48rising to good levels of coal production in recent months, I also told
00:20:52the director of the Health Insurance Institute of Zenica-Doboj
00:20:55Canton, if you stop, if you stop certifying
00:20:59our miners' cards, automatically there will be no coal production, the consequence is
00:21:02no coal in the thermal power plant in Kakanj, the consequence of that
00:21:05is no electricity, the consequence of that is that
00:21:08Elektroprivreda has to buy electricity on another
00:21:12market, the consequence of that is that the Kakanj mine will not receive
00:21:16funds again for that is a vicious circle that cannot be broken
00:21:20only at the expense of the miners, meaning we must turn to a systemic solution, and I think that
00:21:24the director understood the message, mhm, when you talk about the new law
00:21:27that should solve certain
00:21:30problems of miners, you are talking about the sale of non-perspective assets,
00:21:34mm, how do you assess its fate, it's not the first
00:21:38time that something like that has been discussed and it didn't pass, will it,
00:21:41can it now, in what phase is it? Well, I think that all those who did not vote or who were
00:21:45abstaining, or did not understand or were very wrong when
00:21:49they... voted that way, I call on all of them this time when they come to parliament not to
00:21:53play with the fates of miners but to solve it together, because we have
00:21:57reached a systemic proposal from the ministry and the government of the Federation, I think that
00:22:01the fates of miners should not be played with at all because they are people who
00:22:04built both our former state and this state, and they must be provided for in
00:22:08the most adequate way, I think that there will be political will, I
00:22:11call on all those who did not vote, and I thank all those who
00:22:15voted for this law in the next parliamentary cycle
00:22:18when this law comes. I sincerely hope that in the next month, month
00:22:22and a half, we will then have an adopted law that the tax
00:22:26administration will sell non-perspective assets, I cannot
00:22:28understand that for 20 years we were in a state that
00:22:32we have something that is worthless, that we have assets that serve no purpose, that
00:22:36coal will never be mined there again, that on the other hand we have
00:22:39accumulated debts for contributions for health, for pension and disability, for the unemployed and
00:22:43all others, and that we did not match those two through
00:22:47an adequate legal framework, the ministry has offered it and... we are moving towards a solution, what is
00:22:51important here is that the mines will not sell their assets, but the tax administration to whom
00:22:55money is owed will sell the assets and intend, and that is the way
00:22:58mm of experts who will assess those assets and through
00:23:01auction, a completely transparent process where we gain many
00:23:05benefits, miners go into retirement, deservedly, all their
00:23:09contributions are paid, non-perspective assets go to the development
00:23:12of local communities in cities, municipalities and cantons where
00:23:16where we own them, and on the third hand, we come to a situation where...
00:23:20We have in the funds public revenues that
00:23:24have increased, I think this is one of the best solutions
00:23:27that has been offered in the last, I can surely say, ten
00:23:31years, and I think we should no longer play with this, what was the reasoning for those who did not
00:23:35support it, well I think you should ask them,
00:23:38mhm, we will then
00:23:41certainly have a lot of work when it comes to discussions about
00:23:45the entire future of miners, mines in the Federation of Bosnia
00:23:48and Herzegovina, we don't have... "we have a lot of time with you given your upcoming
00:23:52obligations, so I suggest that we move on to the next important topics,
00:23:56to mention the Zenica Steelworks, we know how
00:23:59the decision of the cantonal court ended,
00:24:02more precisely that the decision of the municipal court in Zenica was confirmed, where
00:24:06your proposals were rejected, then yesterday or the day before yesterday
00:24:10a meeting followed, right, with the owners, where your proposals
00:24:14were rejected again, what can be the future
00:24:17of the workers now, I think it is most important to communicate
00:24:21to the public what the real situation is, the Zenica
00:24:24Steelworks is 92% owned by private capital
00:24:28and less than 8% is owned by the government
00:24:31of the Federation. The moment that was
00:24:34crucial was the sale of the steelworks for one Mark
00:24:37in the previous period. We
00:24:40gave something that built the state, a steel
00:24:43industry to which ten to twelve thousand
00:24:47jobs were linked, to someone for one Mark,
00:24:51that's where all the problems start, the Federation
00:24:54of BiH with 8%, you know what it means to manage a company
00:24:58with 8%, but we saw that it is of
00:25:02systemic importance for the industry of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina and for that
00:25:05reason we proposed that the law which, well,
00:25:09did not receive support either from the municipal court or from the cantonal
00:25:12court, we will go further to the appellate court, to the Supreme Court, and
00:25:16finish our legal process to the end, respond to all those appeals that
00:25:19followed both from the municipal court in Zenica and from
00:25:23the National Assembly of the Republika Srpska, we will carry out this process to the end, and as
00:25:26for that, we will also consider the possibility
00:25:29of initiating the procedure of introducing extraordinary
00:25:32administration, uh, but we must be aware, private capital
00:25:36manages the Zenica Steelworks, it has its own
00:25:39goals, it has its own plans, we allowed
00:25:42that some twenty or more years ago, for it
00:25:45to go into the hands of private capital, that decision was not
00:25:49good... These are the consequences of that decision, unfortunately we are in
00:25:53a situation where the Steelworks may go into bankruptcy,
00:25:56I sincerely hope that this bankruptcy will not
00:25:59completely stop steel production
00:26:03in Bosnia and Herzegovina, but rather that other
00:26:06perspectives will open up. We also had two discussions with
00:26:10the management and owners of Zenica Ironworks, the majority
00:26:13owners. We tried to ask that we move in the direction that the company does not go into
00:26:17bankruptcy, that we all get involved, because by going into bankruptcy
00:26:21all workers immediately get their employment contracts terminated. There
00:26:25we have 1500 jobs, that's 1500
00:26:28families who will at that moment lose their jobs. This
00:26:32is a huge blow to the entire industry. Of course, on the other
00:26:35hand, we are preparing everything we can to help those
00:26:39workers if that scenario happens,
00:26:42but we must understand one thing, that it is not in the hands of the Federation
00:26:46of Bosnia and Herzegovina. 8% is not enough to turn things around
00:26:50the way we would like. After all, we tried with
00:26:53the law, we will finish the procedure to the end, we will not give up
00:26:57when it comes to the ironworks, but we must be realistic, 92% is
00:27:01a private company, mhm.
00:27:03Excuse me, the new owners say that at the last meeting, which happened two days
00:27:07ago, you proposed something that
00:27:11the courts have already rejected, will there be new meetings
00:27:14in the coming period or will you wait, for appeals, you said the Supreme,
00:27:18no, we will not stop with uh with communication. That
00:27:22communication, I'll tell you, has never stopped, at least from my side, from
00:27:25the side of the owners. So we constantly communicate to reach
00:27:29a solution. We have owners, so the Federation
00:27:32of BiH with 8%, private capital with
00:27:3592%, we have workers, these are three
00:27:38partners who must make the maximum in this agreement.
00:27:41However, the Federation and the workers are at this
00:27:45moment not asking so much for our wishes and
00:27:48priorities are not those priorities that are currently with
00:27:52the private owner, because we offered not to go into
00:27:54bankruptcy, and a priori they immediately rejected it, that they
00:27:58do not want to think about it at all because they believe that bankruptcy is the only way
00:28:02the ironworks will produce again in the future,
00:28:05but on a smaller scale with fewer people,
00:28:09which was presented to us
00:28:12at the last meeting, so we will not
00:28:15stop talks, meaning 8%, not only because of those 8% but because of
00:28:19the workers who are the ironworks, mhm. When we take into
00:28:22account how all that now functions, how much
00:28:25the railways of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina
00:28:28are endangered, very much. So, before
00:28:32and before... the railways, I would mention the mine in
00:28:35Ljubija, that is, the iron ore mine where
00:28:38600 workers lost their jobs, the mine located in
00:28:42the Republic of Srpska, also the railways of the Republic of Srpska
00:28:45which will be threatened by a reduction, a significant reduction in revenue, because
00:28:48the ironworks generated revenue in the ironworks, in
00:28:52the railways of the Republic of Srpska. Then there are the railways of the Federation of Bosnia and
00:28:55Herzegovina which will surely have 30, 40% less
00:28:58revenue. Let's not forget
00:29:00the iron processors
00:29:02located in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Let's not forget all
00:29:05suppliers of all input components for
00:29:08the production of iron in the Zenica
00:29:11Ironworks. This is an entire system that will surely feel
00:29:15uh the impact if it happens that this
00:29:18is bankruptcy or something else that happens in the coming
00:29:22days.
00:29:30We'll be back soon with current topics. to us and our guests, a friend
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