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00:00:24Good afternoon, you are watching Live Day. Lana Pudar has qualified for the semi-finals
00:00:28in the 100m butterfly at the European Championship, but she and her team
00:00:32our attempt to have devised a strategy. She is withdrawing from tonight's race
00:00:35to conserve energy for her signature event (200m
00:00:38butterfly). It is the eighth day of hell in Konjic, fires
00:00:42are raging, wind is spreading them, the terrain is inaccessible.
00:00:45Firefighters are at their limit, vehicles are breaking down, a helicopter
00:00:49of the BiH Armed Forces is on the ground, and the city is asking for
00:00:52we had a city council session, at international assistance. Firefighters from the Canton of Sarajevo
00:00:55are arriving, as are firefighters in Jablanica, Mostar
00:00:59citizens of Mostar in the future. We forget that and Stolac. The Director... of the Srebrenica Memorial Center, Emir
00:01:01Suljagić, has filed a criminal complaint against the State Minister of Finance,
00:01:05Srđan Amidžić, the reason being the ignoring of decisions by the High
00:01:08Representative and the conscious blocking of funds for the Genocide Research
00:01:12Department. These are the key topics of the day, here's what you can follow
00:01:16in today's
00:01:17Live Day.
00:01:20Nova željeza Zenica is going into bankruptcy. What does this mean for the workers,
00:01:23but also for the entire industry in the Federation of BiH and the state, are we facing
00:01:27a complete collapse or is there an opportunity for recovery? We analyze all of this
00:01:31in today's edition of Live
00:01:32Day.
00:01:35On that very occasion, we have a guest, metallurgy engineer Dina
00:01:39Dogdiberović. We also analyze what the bankruptcy of Nova željeza Zenica
00:01:42practically means for workers on the brink of existence. Is it about
00:01:46saving the industry or the final collapse of a former
00:01:49giant? Edina, as an activist of the clean air association,
00:01:53will speak about the high pollution index
00:01:56is simply something impossible that in Kakanj, which is present even in summer, as well as
00:01:58the import of waste from the European Union that is being destroyed in Bosnia and
00:02:02Herzegovina.
00:02:06We will also talk about the general elections, constitutional blockades, and burning
00:02:09issues in Mostar. Can the opposition threaten the long-standing
00:02:12rule of HDZ, BiH, how do they comment on new messages from Croatia about
00:02:16the third electoral unit? We also ask whether Mostar's public utility
00:02:20companies and the Uborak landfill have once again fallen victim
00:02:23to party and national divisions. Our guest is Slaven
00:02:27Bevanda, Vice President Secretary of the Croatian Republican Party and
00:02:30city councilor in the City Council
00:02:32of Mostar.
00:02:36We are also analyzing the political turmoil in Krajina and the appointment of the new government
00:02:40of the Una-Sana Canton, headed by Ibrahim Dizdarić from
00:02:43Pomak, as well as electoral alliances, what is hidden behind
00:02:46the formation of a new majority, why did Pomak decide to support Semir
00:02:50Efendić in the race for a member of the BiH Presidency, how
00:02:53do they respond to the harsh accusations of the SDP, how does he evaluate the summer
00:02:57season in Bihać, we ask Elvedin.
00:03:00The Mayor of Bihać and the President
00:03:18you can follow all current events on our web portal
00:03:21n1info.Ba, currently featured is an analysis of Oil
00:03:24Price. Trump's new game in BiH began with
00:03:27Dodik's rehabilitation. The Federation government
00:03:31of BiH announced that the workers of Nova željezara Zenica will not be left to themselves,
00:03:36Elmedin Konaković. How do you view and Mar Dedić is one step away from a career transfer, what is it about, check it out on our web
00:03:40portal, also Marjanović, director
00:03:43of the Sarajevo Film Festival, spoke to N1, the festival born under
00:03:47siege became the leading film event in Southeast
00:03:50Europe. The Canton of Sarajevo government approved the engagement
00:03:54of Sarajevo firefighters in extinguishing fires in the Konjic
00:03:57area. All of this can be found on our web portal
00:04:00n1info.ba, where you can always find all
00:04:04the latest news from Bosnia and Herzegovina, the region, the world,
00:04:07sports, magazines, lifestyle, so whatever
00:04:11you're interested in, check out our web portal
00:04:13n1info.ba.
00:04:22It is the eighth day since in the area of the city of Konjic, in the villages of Kanjina,
00:04:26Živašnica, Brđani, Džepi, and Džepska Planina, a fire
00:04:30broke out which is still not under control. As announced by
00:04:33the operational center of civil protection of the Herzegovina-Neretva Canton,
00:04:37the fire has a tendency to spread, which is favored by high temperatures and
00:04:40wind. The terrain is mostly inaccessible for ground extinguishing,
00:04:44which prevents the spread of the fire. And today, from
00:04:48the early morning hours, a helicopter
00:04:51rulings that point to of the BiH Armed Forces continues its activities in extinguishing the fire in the area of the city of Konjic. From
00:04:54the city administration, an official request for international assistance
00:04:59and implementation of the adaptation plan at in aerial firefighting was sent, and civil protection warns that firefighters and personnel are at their
00:05:02limit, and during demanding interventions, several vehicles suffered
00:05:07work actually when it comes to breakdowns, tire blowouts, brake failures, and water pump failures.
00:05:11Fires were also recorded in the areas of Jablanica, Mostar, and
00:05:14Stolac.
00:05:16Currently, the situation at the fire site, meaning
00:05:20the fire is still active, mm, we have
00:05:23mm, meaning
00:05:25that the fire is spreading, there are
00:05:29high temperatures on the ground, the spread is fueled by strong wind,
00:05:33mm, today's focus is to prioritize trying to prevent
00:05:37the spread of the fire in the direction from Dževska Planina towards Brđani,
00:05:40which is spreading. This is
00:05:45try to localize that direction, and this morning we had the action
00:05:48of helicopters of the Armed Forces of Bosnia and Herzegovina, it was active from
00:05:527:10 AM to 9:20
00:05:55AM, it made five
00:05:58passes.
00:06:06And it's time for our first guest, we're talking about general
00:06:09elections, constitutional blockades, and burning issues in Mostar. Our guest
00:06:13is Slaven Bevanda, Vice President of the Croatian Republican Party,
00:06:17General Secretary of this party, and a city councilor in the City Council
00:06:21of Mostar. Good day to you and welcome
00:06:28these state topics, general elections are coming up,
00:06:31HRS supports Zdenko Lučić. Do you
00:06:34think that the opposition has the capacity to
00:06:37replace the long-standing rule of HDZ Bosnia and
00:06:40Herzegovina, is it possible at all
00:06:44to replace HDZ Bosnia and Herzegovina, and do you again believe that
00:06:47the problem when it comes to votes can be caused by the candidacy
00:06:51of Slaven Kovačević? Well, look, we are in the process of a ban
00:06:54on political activity, you must
00:06:57understand that situation, I must remain partially reserved with this
00:07:01answer, for the reason that HRS is currently
00:07:04the second most punished party by
00:07:07the Central Election Commission, meaning that a lot
00:07:11more is measured for us than for others, you know,
00:07:14some benign posts on portals that were, that were, caused
00:07:18fines from CIK, we are in the process of appeal proceedings both before the court and
00:07:22before the Constitutional Court, what I want to say in the context of general elections,
00:07:26it is still a, as some like to say, festival of democracy, but
00:07:30this time, this time, this time I hope it will be the first truly
00:07:33fair elections thanks to election technologies, for which
00:07:37all of us from the opposition parties fought
00:07:40hard, we expect that the citizens will have
00:07:43for the first time a government as they
00:07:46chose in the elections, that their vote will represent their
00:07:50true will, so you expect that the new election
00:07:53technologies will bear fruit, well, also the contacts we have with
00:07:57the Central Election Commission and the advertising
00:08:01campaign of CIK that starts today, meaning we expect and hope that
00:08:05election technologies will be applied in the elections in October
00:08:08and we expect for the first time that we will
00:08:12know the election results on election night and not wait for
00:08:22has been caused by renewed statements from the Croatian Foreign Minister, Gordan
00:08:26Grlić Radman, he spoke again about the necessity
00:08:29of forming a third electoral unit in Bosnia and Herzegovina,
00:08:32saying that it would not actually lead to
00:08:35the division of Bosnia and Herzegovina, however, we immediately saw sharp
00:08:38reactions from the member of the Presidency
00:08:42Denica. Ćirović and candidate Slaven Kovačević, as well
00:08:45as the BiH Foreign Minister
00:08:49that, those statements, and the responses that followed? Well,
00:08:52look, it sits. Well, I will state my opinion,
00:08:56I personally think that it is high time that such initiatives
00:08:59should stop coming, specifically from Zagreb regarding the introduction
00:09:03of electoral units. Personally, I believe that such initiatives
00:09:07for similar initiatives should come from Sarajevo. Because I think that
00:09:11the question of Croatian equal rights can only be resolved through internal consensus
00:09:14in the Federation, and I think that a turnaround in
00:09:18Bosniak politics, majority Bosniak politics, is necessary, and
00:09:21eventually, it would represent a historic
00:09:25step forward in resolving accumulated
00:09:28problems, stabilizing the Federation as a larger entity, and this would
00:09:32ensure the path to the European Union for both the Federation and
00:09:35the entire Bosnia and Herzegovina. Croatia would then be very
00:09:39helpful to us, as it would be our engine for joining the European
00:09:42Union for accelerated accession, negotiations, what we are not using now with these
00:09:46relations with Croatia is cross-border cooperation and other issues,
00:09:50that is the question of all complex relations that exist, but I think that
00:09:53a turnaround in Bosniak politics is necessary regarding this issue.
00:09:57There is constant talk about the necessity of amending the Election Law of Bosnia and
00:10:00Herzegovina, we also have
00:10:03this, however, constantly, even representatives from the Bosniak people
00:10:07and from the Croatian people say that it should be done,
00:10:11but we don't have concrete
00:10:13steps and moves, why do you think there aren't any, well, I think, I think there aren't any
00:10:17because the existing policies, when I say existing policies that
00:10:20have been in power for, let's say, the last 20 years,
00:10:24this... situation suits them, because in that way they feed on certain
00:10:28fears, so-called fears or real
00:10:32fears, meaning they manipulate their electorate,
00:10:35we have been at a standstill the whole time, I think we have been at a complete
00:10:39standstill since 2006.
00:10:47the Constitutional Court of the Federation of BiH stated in its submitted opinion that
00:10:50local self-government units are obliged to form local
00:10:54communities, as a form of local self-government.
00:10:58What specifically changes now with this decision in Mostar, can we
00:11:01now expect that the city must now enable
00:11:05the actual functioning of local communities, who is responsible
00:11:08for this not having been done so far? Well, responsible is, we are
00:11:12all responsible in the city, but of course those who form the political majority in the city
00:11:16council and who govern the city of Mostar are the most responsible, meaning in the last six years
00:11:20certain initiatives have been launched since we again have a city
00:11:23council, certain initiatives have been launched to establish
00:11:26local self-government, meaning we have local communities in
00:11:30the city of Mostar, but in these local communities local
00:11:34self-government is not realized, what the Law on
00:11:37Principles of Local Self-Government in the Federation mandates, meaning
00:11:41we had some small initiatives, let's say to form a new
00:11:45network of local communities, to organize elections for these local
00:11:48communities as in other local self-government units, but
00:11:51uh for all that we need a change of the statute, we haven't... implemented even
00:11:55the decision of the Constitutional Court, or rather only partially implemented the decision
00:11:59of the Constitutional Court regarding Mostar, and I think in the next
00:12:02period, besides that part of this opinion
00:12:06of the Constitutional Court which referred us to
00:12:10the necessity of implementing the statute, we have another opinion
00:12:13also and I think that in some next
00:12:16period, not before these elections, but after the elections, the time will come
00:12:20to seriously sit down to discuss appropriate amendments to
00:12:24the statute to align it with the Federation Constitution and the Constitution of Bosnia and Herzegovina. And
00:12:27how many, well, necessary amendments to the statute? What all needs to be
00:12:31changed in the statute? Well, look, we have what is obligatory by the
00:12:35Constitutional Court to implement a part regarding the decision-making process in
00:12:38the central zone, that is, the use of financial
00:12:42resources, which is decided by councilors who are elected from
00:12:45urban areas. That issue remained
00:12:49unresolved in the decision of the Constitutional Court, and only
00:12:52the issue of holding elections in the city of Mostar was resolved, meaning
00:12:56we have a situation where we must ensure
00:12:59changes, changes regarding local communities,
00:13:02their establishment, functioning, that is, ensuring local
00:13:06self-government for all citizens in the city, the second part concerning
00:13:09the new opinion of the Constitutional Court, meaning it's an opinion, not a decision, it
00:13:13didn't annul certain provisions of Mostar's statute, that is
00:13:16for ensuring the candidacy of others, I
00:13:20wanted to mention that, others, others in the city, in the city
00:13:23of Mostar, because the current city statute of Mostar, which we must say
00:13:26was imposed by the High Representative then,
00:13:30Paddy Ashdown, did not foresee the possibility for the club
00:13:33of others to nominate the vice president and president of the city
00:13:36council, do you expect that these changes will occur, that
00:13:40this clause will be included, well, look, we will, we will implement those changes
00:13:44if we are responsible, if we have such an opinion of the Constitutional Court
00:13:47uh embed, such issues are resolved at certain
00:13:51levels of the Federation, that is, for elections, for the election of, for example...
00:13:56the leadership of the House of Peoples and the House of Representatives
00:13:59of the Federation Parliament, meaning there are models we can use to solve it, I don't see
00:14:03any reason why we shouldn't proceed with that solution, meaning we from HRS
00:14:06have full political will to resolve all these
00:14:10issues, you said that it's resolved when it comes to elections
00:14:14in the city of Mostar itself, however, does the current statute
00:14:17of the city become an obstacle to the normal
00:14:20functioning of Mostar, what would a statute that you and
00:14:24HRS would propose look like? Well, look, there is
00:14:26that statute, as we've already said, it was imposed by
00:14:29the administration, that is, the High Representative,
00:14:33he abolished the previous six municipalities and the city structure
00:14:36that previously existed, replacing it with a unified city administration, we
00:14:40then from the beginning with that statute got a unitary
00:14:44organization of the city, we have five departments in the city,
00:14:48the opinions that are appearing are that we should make
00:14:50a reorganization of the city administration, we believe that we
00:14:54should, uh, should regulate a number of issues
00:14:57regarding the method
00:14:59of appointment, receiving people, meaning, well, and fulfilling
00:15:03constitutional competencies, meaning everything that should be is something
00:15:07that necessarily requires and at all times changes in legislation at
00:15:10higher levels and we have an obligation to harmonize with them,
00:15:14but we first need to adopt this statute that was imposed by
00:15:18the High Representative, meaning then change it,
00:15:21meaning it is still with us, let's say, on a temporary basis. And
00:15:25what about the possible return of city municipalities, are you
00:15:28for that? Well, look, there is a proposal, meaning we always have some
00:15:32emissaries, well, specifically in this case it was Mr. Efendić who came to Sarajevo,
00:15:35allegedly concerned about the status of Bosniaks in the city of Mostar,
00:15:39and he proposed the return, the return of city municipalities, that is,
00:15:42a return to the situation before 2004,
00:15:45meaning we have situations in cities of Bosnia and Herzegovina like Sarajevo, well,
00:15:49specifically Sarajevo, which has a regulated issue, has city municipalities, has
00:15:53a city, has a city as an institution with very small
00:15:56powers, uh, in principle, if we are all in the majority
00:15:59for it, even if it's a good model, I could talk about it to see what the
00:16:03competencies would be, we from HRS would discuss what the competencies would be, but it would be
00:16:07necessary then to apply that model, if it's good for Mostar, I don't see any reason why it
00:16:11shouldn't be applied to other municipalities in the Federation,
00:16:14for example Travnik or something similar, one, one
00:16:18of the actually bigger problems are actually public enterprises in
00:16:22the city of Mostar, in recent times the most current are somehow
00:16:25the Uborak landfill and Komunalno, you spoke
00:16:29about serious suspicions regarding the work and management
00:16:33of Komunalno, are there certain proofs, do you actually
00:16:36expect that there will be... an investigation regarding the work and management of
00:16:40the public enterprise Komunalno in Mostar? Well, look, in the city of Mostar,
00:16:44in the city of Mostar we have stipulated in that statute a department
00:16:47for internal supervision, it was until half a year ago
00:16:51unfilled for six or seven years, one of the powers of that
00:16:54department for internal supervision was to oversee the work of these public
00:16:58enterprises, you know, what we
00:17:01are witnesses to, we are witnesses that these public enterprises, that
00:17:05these public enterprises in the city of Mostar for example had a fire at
00:17:08the landfill, at the Uborak landfill where according to initial estimates the damage
00:17:12is 20 million marks, we are talking about material damages, damages
00:17:16that occurred to the health of citizens due to that disaster are
00:17:19unfortunately immeasurable, they will be seen in the
00:17:22future, we currently have an unresolved situation with that
00:17:25enterprise, in the public utility enterprise we have major problems,
00:17:29major problems with the way it operates and is managed, we are witnesses that
00:17:33a series of criminal charges have been filed these
00:17:36last few days due to abuses in this
00:17:38enterprise, and at the current council session we witnessed that
00:17:42certain councilors accused each other that funds
00:17:46and resources, that is, resources or
00:17:49or or or equipment of that enterprise, were used for certain
00:17:53councilors or political officials to pave their
00:17:56yards, courtyards, meaning that is, that is something
00:18:00that would, that is something that in a normal state after such a
00:18:03council session where councilors, certain councilors present these
00:18:06information, the public would call for an interview
00:18:10and request information on who had
00:18:13something paved with city funds, or rather benefited, but there are no
00:18:16investigations yet, we have no information about investigations yet,
00:18:19it wasn't that long ago that criminal charges were filed, what we are waiting
00:18:23for, we are waiting for an investigation into the fire at the Uborak
00:18:26landfill, because there were, there were from the beginning
00:18:29well-founded suspicions that the fire was arson
00:18:33and without
00:18:36without... conducting a full investigation, it is difficult to draw any
00:18:39conclusions, if it was arson and if, look, that
00:18:43was an attack on the citizens of Mostar, that is the least of the questions,
00:18:46the least of the questions regarding the value of destroyed property, what is
00:18:49the value and costs that today arise in the city of Mostar
00:18:52regarding the organization of waste disposal,
00:18:55we will talk about that too, but let's just touch upon
00:18:59the management and operation of the public utility
00:19:03company itself, you spoke and said that there are two
00:19:06utilities under the same roof, do public
00:19:09enterprises in Mostar divide along national
00:19:12political lines, who does it, why, how long would it actually
00:19:16take now to start recovering the system, how long would it
00:19:20take primarily to uncover all these
00:19:22possible malversations, frauds, divisions, and only then
00:19:26to actually recover everything and establish it as it should be? Well, look,
00:19:30it is clear that these companies of ours did not function in accordance with
00:19:33the law, that is, the law on public companies and the law on economic
00:19:37companies which they are obligated to
00:19:40apply, we are witnesses that the managements of these companies that were
00:19:44appointed had a sharp division of competencies
00:19:48regarding, to be completely honest, regarding
00:19:51the implementation of the activities of these companies in certain urban
00:19:54areas, both with a Croatian and a Bosniak majority, meaning we
00:19:58don't need to hide that, it's clear to everyone, we have a situation where in certain
00:20:02companies "working units" were formed, I call them that,
00:20:05working units one and two
00:20:08which were essentially formed from former separate companies during the merger,
00:20:12so the citizens and these companies still have not fully functioned
00:20:15in, functioned, been in that common,
00:20:19common form, meaning because of that we have chaos
00:20:22in that management, we have been witnesses for many years
00:20:26and also through citizen reports, public announcements that funds, specifically
00:20:29machines, excavators, backhoes of these public companies
00:20:33not only... outside working hours, are found
00:20:36in private, are found in the area, are found in the area of other municipalities, people
00:20:39filmed them, published them, meaning huge abuses,
00:20:43there is huge suspicion of abuses, mhm,
00:20:46and well we will see what will be the subject
00:20:50of those investigations, whether the prosecution, I don't see
00:20:53any reason for delay there, these are not some cases in
00:20:57which huge investigative actions need to be carried out,
00:21:01you know and what is necessary in all these
00:21:04companies is to conduct an independent audit of operations, if
00:21:08possible, we advocate for an international audit, we know that
00:21:12it costs a lot, but I think a cross-section needs to be made,
00:21:15how do you then view these recent dismissals
00:21:19that we witnessed in Komunalno, are these dismissals
00:21:23of workers a consequence of economic and organizational
00:21:26problems that certainly exist or precisely political and national
00:21:30relations within the company, we now see
00:21:33workers talking about pressures they
00:21:36suffered, how do you view this entire situation now? Well, look, we were,
00:21:42which no one wanted to publish that alleged petition, let's say, of workers
00:21:46who refuse to work from allegedly
00:21:48working unit two, but stop working in the area of working
00:21:52unit one or vice versa, to be clear,
00:21:55in the area where Croats mostly live or in the area where Bosniaks
00:21:59mostly live, meaning we have workers who refused
00:22:02to work, allegedly, again, we're talking about that part of fulfilling
00:22:06their tasks, uh
00:22:09which they are obliged to do throughout the city, and
00:22:12they have the right to choose where they will work, that is impossible,
00:22:16it shows a multi-layeredness in the management of these
00:22:20companies, meaning these companies were not merged in
00:22:24a proper way, when we merged we
00:22:27warned that it might not be best in that way,
00:22:31it was proposed to form a holding company to know exactly in a
00:22:35holding company there would be more companies, landfill,
00:22:38cleanliness, waste collection, execution of works, to be
00:22:41controlled through a common holding company, there were more proposals, unfortunately it seems
00:22:45that the worst was chosen and it does not function today, it is obvious
00:22:49that in this whole process there was manipulation of workers, mhm,
00:22:53absolute manipulation, certain people stated that they didn't know what they
00:22:56signed in that petition, you didn't even see the
00:23:00petition, uh, we saw a letter, but
00:23:03I personally didn't see a signed petition, it wasn't presented, also
00:23:07we didn't see any decision about termination of employment
00:23:10contract for what reason some worker
00:23:13was given that notice, well, specifically I am a lawyer so
00:23:16I cannot evaluate if that decision, let's say, at least... for formal
00:23:20legal reasons is lawful or not, but it is very, well,
00:23:24evident now the supervisory board as
00:23:26a second-instance body is resolving the appeals of those
00:23:29workers, that is, requests for review of those decisions, and
00:23:33I, as I may have heard from the media, have even heard that some decisions were
00:23:36adopted, yes, but well, what can the city
00:23:40council do now, what can you order the public
00:23:43company to do, can we perhaps
00:23:46expect, uh, well, an audit again,
00:23:50some new establishment of a different kind, a different
00:23:53way of working in the municipal company, so what we
00:23:57witness, means that these public companies that we have, not only in the city of
00:24:01Mostar, but at higher levels or other cities are in huge problems,
00:24:05mhm, we witness that maybe some companies that have entered into
00:24:08public-private partnership with private companies in some municipalities have much fewer
00:24:12problems, maybe it costs a little more,
00:24:16maybe it looks a little different, but obviously we need new... in question
00:24:20in question in question in
00:24:23regulating these issues, but what is worrying is that all these
00:24:27companies operate, have poor business
00:24:30results, meaning not only in the city of Mostar, look,
00:24:34look at the list of tax debtors at the federation level, and you will
00:24:38see at the federal administration, the federal tax administration or
00:24:42the indirect taxation administration, which public utility companies
00:24:45are the biggest debtors, meaning that contributions are not paid,
00:24:49that... VAT is not paid, at the same time, these companies, unlike
00:24:53private companies, are not blocked by the tax administration, so
00:24:56that one chaos,
00:24:59be resolved,
00:25:02uh, we are witnesses that in some other municipalities there were bankruptcies of public utility companies,
00:25:06establishment of new ones, I don't know what the future of the city is in the city of
00:25:10Mostar, we have a difficult situation at the landfill which burned down, we have
00:25:13workers currently working on disposing, discarding,
00:25:17sorting that waste that is there... it comes from I think there are
00:25:21about 55 workers, uh,
00:25:23they have a very difficult situation, all this concern
00:25:27for these layoffs prompted me in a way to ask myself how no one takes care
00:25:31of those 55 people who did these jobs whose future is
00:25:35uncertain, we hope that these people will fit into other
00:25:38other city public utility
00:25:41companies, that they will remain at that landfill for guarding
00:25:44and disposal
00:25:49that landfill. That is all that awaits us in the next period
00:25:57public utilities and that problem with waste disposal,
00:26:00can we tell the citizens
00:26:02of Mostar and this whole region actually when Uborak
00:26:06will stop being a city landfill and where Mostar will dispose
00:26:09of waste after that, has an alternative been
00:26:12found, is it being discussed, there have been many
00:26:15ideas for years back, but is there a
00:26:19final decision? There is no decision, so we don't even have
00:26:22a new location planned for a regional landfill in the
00:26:26spatial plan of our canton. in the Herzegovina-Neretva
00:26:29Canton. So, what the city of Mostar, the Uborak
00:26:33landfill, must implement in the area, in the area of the Uborak landfill, it must
00:26:36implement, it is the implementation of the adaptation plan adopted by the federal
00:26:40Ministry of Environmental Protection, this means that for the next five years
00:26:44that landfill will be rehabilitated
00:26:47according to regulations, that
00:26:51all hazardous materials that are there
00:26:54will be separated, that it will be greened and that it simply will not
00:26:58pose a danger to the
00:27:01waste has been deposited at that landfill for 60 years, that it
00:27:05burned very badly before the war, anyone living in Mostar before the war knows that
00:27:09it burned very badly before the war, but it's a chaos,
00:27:12simply something we have to, we have to, we have to solve,
00:27:16will we be able to solve it without European partners, I don't know, and
00:27:19it's constantly being discussed, but it seems that a solution is not
00:27:22being found, how do you view this, well
00:27:26look, Mostar is not alone in that problem, there are many other
00:27:30cities, there are some small municipalities. smaller municipalities, local
00:27:33self-government units, who solved it in a way that they have illegal landfills and no one
00:27:37mentions them, the city of Mostar had a sanitary landfill that was
00:27:41newly opened after the European Union, I think it might not have been well
00:27:44managed, mhm, that's another problem, meaning that
00:27:47landfill, if all legal regulations had been applied, it would not
00:27:51look like this today, and this horror that happened with this
00:27:54fire
00:27:58of course no one expected, was this an accident or is it the cause?
00:28:03as I said, the investigation will determine whether it was intentionally caused, do you have
00:28:07any information on what stage the investigation is in? I really don't, because look,
00:28:10the prosecution will not give any information, it reserves the right for
00:28:14protection, not only in this, but in all other
00:28:17cases, but here we say appropriate expert opinions need
00:28:20to be conducted, probably a large number of people, workers,
00:28:24of the landfill, a large number of firefighters who
00:28:28told us, let's say internally when we thanked
00:28:31those people for all they did because they were
00:28:35exposed to a great danger
00:28:38when they extinguished that landfill, they were, because
00:28:41the landfill didn't just have one fire, it had new fires on the second and third day,
00:28:45they expressed suspicion due to their
00:28:48professional experience that it was arson. Uh, so
00:28:52now when we talk about public enterprises of the city of
00:28:55Mostar, are they today professional city
00:28:58companies or still political spoils for parties? How do
00:29:01you? "I personally think that we in public enterprises
00:29:05do not have professional companies, not only in Mostar, but in the entire
00:29:09Bosnia and Herzegovina, meaning these
00:29:12companies are simply under
00:29:15the supervision of political parties who appoint their members
00:29:19of supervisory boards and management and they manage those companies and
00:29:22we are witnesses that their results, as we said,
00:29:26who are the biggest tax debtors contributions tell
00:29:30us that either we don't know how to manage."
00:29:32the sector, that we don't know how to manage that sector, or that
00:29:36there is a high degree of corruption, crime, where citizens' funds,
00:29:39look, the funds used by these public utility companies, we all pay
00:29:43through garbage collection or by paying appropriate utility
00:29:47fees adopted by our local self-government units, so we are
00:29:51witnessing problems in highways, problems
00:29:54in telecommunications, and now big problems in Elektroprivreda Bosnia and
00:29:58Herzegovina, in Mines, meaning all
00:30:01public enterprises. are simply either very
00:30:05few of them operate responsibly,
00:30:07is it even possible then to solve that problem, we are talking
00:30:11about local communities, then through the level of
00:30:15cantons and
00:30:17entity levels and the level of Bosnia and Herzegovina,
00:30:21all public enterprises are actually in a similar situation,
00:30:24similar state, is it even possible then to come and
00:30:28solve these problems? Well, it is possible to solve these problems, but these problems
00:30:31will not be solved until Bosnia and Herzegovina joins the European
00:30:34Union, mhm, I'm afraid they won't be solved, the moment we
00:30:38will not only have our prosecutor's offices, but European prosecutor's offices, we are witnesses now in
00:30:42Croatia that anyone who spends funds from European
00:30:45funds falls under the jurisdiction of the European prosecutor's office, so
00:30:49you see, for example, specifically on landfills in
00:30:52Croatia and and certain collectors, I'm talking
00:30:56about that municipal infrastructure...
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