Bosnia and Herzegovina: N1 Bosnia and Herzegovina

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00:00:00with greater motivation to continue working. Pudar once again
00:00:03performed among the best European swimmers, but the final
00:00:06result was not what she had hoped for. I am finishing the European Championship
00:00:09in Paris with many beautiful moments, experiences and even
00:00:13greater motivation for what is to come. Not every time
00:00:16is the result what I wish for, but even such races
00:00:20are part of the journey. And from each we can learn something, extract something
00:00:24good and continue even more motivated, said the
00:00:27Mostar Mermaid. Among other things. For Pudar.
00:00:30a period of rest follows after which she will return to training and preparations
00:00:33for the next
00:00:34competitions.
00:00:39Sarajevo football players will play the match of the third round of the domestic championship of Bosnia and Herzegovina
00:00:43against BSK from Banja Luka on Friday at the Bilino Polje stadium
00:00:46in Zenica. And the maroon club decided to open the stadium gates wide
00:00:50to its fans. After the umbrella association of Bosnia and
00:00:54Herzegovina previously confirmed that Sarajevo will not be able to play this match at its home stadium
00:00:58due to the unsuitable pitch at the Asim Ferhatović Hase stadium,
00:01:01all the details of the match are now known. Sarajevo will host
00:01:05BSK on Friday at 8 p.m., and the club announced that
00:01:09admission to Bilino Polje will be
00:01:11free.
00:01:14The human rights organization Fair Square has asked FIFA to ban Gianni
00:01:18Infantino from a new candidacy for president, claiming that he has
00:01:22already served the maximum three terms allowed by
00:01:24the statutes. Infantino claims that his first term, which began
00:01:28in 2016. After Blatter's
00:01:30departure... should not be counted because he only completed the term that
00:01:34was entrusted to Blatter.
00:01:36functioning on the basis of agreement and not on Fair Square believes that such an interpretation is contrary to FIFA's rules. Pressure on Infantino
00:01:40is mounting ahead of the World Football governing body's congress scheduled
00:01:44for March 18 in Morocco, at which his candidacy
00:01:47for the period from 2027 to
00:01:512031 is expected. UEFA, the Asian Confederation and
00:01:54CONCACAF recently requested a review of his
00:01:57actions, while the football association announced that it will not support
00:02:01his new term. Infantino, on the other hand, still has the support of the African and
00:02:05South American football
00:02:07confederations.
00:02:11Chelsea shareholders, Mark Walter and Todd Bolly are negotiating the
00:02:15sale of their stakes to Clear Lake Capital, the Financial Times
00:02:18reported. Walter's financial empire is under
00:02:22federal investigation according to reports published last month,
00:02:25investigating links between investments of his insurance
00:02:28companies and related companies. Walter also
00:02:32owns the MLB team Los Angeles Dodgers, and he reached
00:02:35an agreement to sell the Los Angeles Lakers to investor Joshua
00:02:39Kushner, former Disney CEO Bob Iger
00:02:42for a record 12.5 billion dollars. The deal was reached
00:02:46just over a year after Walter bought a majority stake in
00:02:49the NBA club. Chelsea was bought in May 2022
00:02:53by an investment group led by
00:02:55conversation about accountability, you are also a member of American businessman Todd Bolly and Clear Lake
00:02:59of the House of Representatives, from that Capital. Deportivo La Coruña football players played
00:03:03to a 1:1 draw at home against Elche
00:03:06in the first round match of the Spanish championship. Deportivo took the lead
00:03:09at Riazzor in the 21st minute with a goal from experienced
00:03:13Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang on Amatucci's assist. The new La Liga
00:03:17member held the lead well into the second half, but could not
00:03:21win. In the 76th minute, pardon, Aguado
00:03:24equalized after Villar's assist for
00:03:27a final 1:1. Deportivo,
00:03:30which returned to La Liga after eight years, will visit Malaga in the second round,
00:03:33and Elche will play against the reigning champions
00:03:37Barcelona in the next round.
00:03:41Independiente defeated Lanus 3:1 away in the Argentine
00:03:45championship match. Lautaro Milán scored two goals for
00:03:48the visitors, the first on Montiel's assist in the 37th minute, while the second
00:03:52goal came in the second minute of the second half.
00:03:55Alan Wolk reduced his team's deficit just three minutes later for
00:03:59Lanus. Independiente's victory was confirmed by Maximiliano
00:04:02Gutiérrez with a goal in stoppage time for a final
00:04:063:1. Immediately after the final whistle, there was
00:04:09a clash between players, after which Lanus midfielder Ramiro Carrera received
00:04:13a red card for an incident with Kevin
00:04:16Lomocan.
00:04:18Alexander Zverev advanced to the next round of the Cincinnati Masters after
00:04:22defeating Frances Tiafoe with a Frenchman,
00:04:26pardon, Tiafoe with 7-6, 7-6. The German
00:04:29was down 3-0 in the first set, but managed to turn the match around
00:04:32and win both sets in a tie-break. Regardless of the final
00:04:36result in Cincinnati, Zverev will return to second
00:04:39place in the ATP rankings and be the second seed at the US Open. The German
00:04:43also recorded his 46th victory in 2026,
00:04:46currently having the most wins in the season. Arthur
00:04:50Fils also advanced, defeating Jiří Lehečka 6-1, 6-7, 6-3,
00:04:536:1-6-7-6-3,
00:04:55while Alex de Minaur was better than Arthur Rinderknech 7-5, 7-6.
00:04:58Rafael Nadal convincingly
00:05:01eliminated Alejandro Tabilo 6-2, 6-1, while João
00:05:05Fonseca retired from the match against Christopher
00:05:07O'Connell.
00:05:10In the women's competition, the player advanced to the round of 16 in Cincinnati after
00:05:14coming from behind to defeat Maria Sakkari 2-1 in
00:05:17sets. The exact score was 4-6, 6-1,
00:05:216-1. After losing the first set, the Pole completely took
00:05:25control and won as many as 12 of the last
00:05:2814 games in this match. The fifth ranked tennis player in the world will play
00:05:31against Frenchwoman Diane Parry
00:05:34in the next round for a place in the quarterfinals. Victories were also recorded by American Jessica
00:05:38Pegula, who defeated fellow countrywoman Navarro 7-5, 6-2,
00:05:42and Amanda Anisimova, who was better than Alexandra
00:05:45Cîrstea 4-6, 6-4, and
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00:05:52Two-time Tour de France winner Jonas Vingegaard will not compete this
00:05:55season due to recovery from a collarbone fracture, his team Visma
00:05:58Lease a Bike confirmed. The Dane
00:06:01sustained the injury after a fall during the 15th stage of last month's Tour de
00:06:05France, after which he had to undergo surgery. Due to the injury, he will
00:06:08miss the World Road Cycling Championships, which will be held from
00:06:12September 20 to 27 in
00:06:15Montreal. Vingegaard could potentially have competed in
00:06:19October's Tour de Lombardia, but it has now
00:06:22been confirmed that the 29-year-old will not return to racing before
00:06:26next season.
00:06:51And the first guest of today's show, a member of parliament in the House of Representatives of the Parliamentary Assembly of Bosnia
00:06:54and Herzegovina, the president of the Forward Party, Šemsudin
00:06:57Mehmedović, on the eve of the elections, disputes over
00:07:00electoral reform, the southern gas interconnector, the management
00:07:04of key state institutions, we will talk about the situation in Bosnia and
00:07:07Herzegovina, relations between constituent peoples, the influence of HDZ and
00:07:11SNSD on the process of decision-making and his
00:07:14warnings about irregularities in the work of certain public enterprises and institutions.
00:07:18Good day and welcome. Good day. Many topics
00:07:21uh, I don't know where to start, maybe from
00:07:24the beginning, of course, from this claim that actually in
00:07:27the institutions of Bosnia and Herzegovina, mostly
00:07:30Serbs and Croats are employed. That's a story you've been talking about
00:07:34for a very long time, now you've come out with the number
00:07:3781%
00:07:40uh, you say that employment in the institutions of Bosnia and
00:07:43Herzegovina is in favor of Serbs and Croats, only 19%
00:07:47Bosniaks, how did you get this breakdown of numbers
00:07:51and if it's accurate, how did it actually come to this
00:07:54situation? Well, for a long series of years I
00:07:57have been warning about a very negative trend when it comes to
00:08:01respecting proportional representation, which is
00:08:05defined by the Constitution of Bosnia and Herzegovina. And of course,
00:08:08in preparation for this international conference we had
00:08:11on August 8, where we, well,
00:08:15several speakers, and among them I was too, presented
00:08:19precisely the data that I received based
00:08:22on parliamentary questions and answers that I received from those
00:08:26institutions, of course, we define tables
00:08:29what data we want to get and based
00:08:33on that, I asked the analytical research sector
00:08:36in the Parliamentary Assembly of Bosnia and Herzegovina to
00:08:39make an analysis based on that. The indicators
00:08:43are incredible,
00:08:46uh, actually, when I was preparing for that one
00:08:49presentation, I had to read a little about how it, what
00:08:53all was happening, on the eve of the collapse of our former
00:08:57common state Yugoslavia, when
00:08:59Serbs constantly said that they were threatened, then they,
00:09:03actually their then-intelligence service or
00:09:06Udba, launched a thesis
00:09:10that Serbs were threatened, but...
00:09:12in essence, they took over all institutions and controlled
00:09:16all processes within the former common state of Yugoslavia,
00:09:19today we, for the last 15-20 years,
00:09:23hear the thesis about
00:09:26some
00:09:28ethnic underrepresentation
00:09:32of Croats, which was propagated by Mr.
00:09:36Čović in such a way that there is no
00:09:39legitimate representation in the presidency. In Bosnia and Herzegovina,
00:09:43according to the same electoral law that is valid today, Mr.
00:09:47Čović, Mr. Jomirajović and
00:09:50others were, Jelavić and so on, were members
00:09:54of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina. What actually
00:09:57happened? The people punished Čović, because after Čović
00:10:00no other HDZ candidate was elected, we saw
00:10:04that Mr. Komšić was elected twice for
00:10:07two terms precisely because
00:10:11of the punishment. Uh, the behavior of Čović and his HDZ
00:10:15candidates, or members of the Presidency from the ranks of HDZ,
00:10:18because they did not represent the interests of Bosnia and Herzegovina, but
00:10:22on the contrary, they represented the interests of, first and foremost, the Republic
00:10:25of Croatia, let's remember when we in the parliamentary assembly tried
00:10:29to send a note to the Republic of Croatia due to
00:10:33the illegal disposal of radioactive waste near the border of Bosnia
00:10:36and Herzegovina in Trgovska Gora, he did not allow
00:10:39any money to be sent to the Republic of Croatia, not to mention the
00:10:43usurpation of the maritime border by the Republic
00:10:46of Croatia, uh, the former common
00:10:49state of Yugoslavia, because now Bosnia and Herzegovina as a maritime country has no access to
00:10:53the open sea and so on and so forth, the citizens of Bosnia and
00:10:57Herzegovina punished HDZ policy because of such an attitude
00:11:01towards the state of Bosnia and Herzegovina, from which
00:11:03they take
00:11:06incredibly high salaries, yes, but that situation led to a great
00:11:09polarization in political relations in the country itself and we see that
00:11:13this has been going on for a long time,
00:11:17that it actually led SNSD and HDZ to the same
00:11:20side, brought the country to a complete paralysis, we can
00:11:24call it that political situation, I have a solution for it and
00:11:27of course I can't talk about it now in this gray area on the eve of the elections,
00:11:31because it would be a promotion of the party's
00:11:35program, I don't want to talk about it publicly now,
00:11:38but when the time comes, when the campaign begins, I will clearly
00:11:41and loudly say how to solve it, because look,
00:11:45uh, it's not about ethnic
00:11:48representation in the institutions of Bosnia and Herzegovina, that it's some
00:11:51percentage 5 to 5% up or down.
00:11:55However, I proposed amendments to the law on administration
00:11:58in which I prescribed,
00:12:01proposed actually that
00:12:04the people, or the ethnic community that is missing 10% or
00:12:08more, meaning has priority in
00:12:11filling positions during competitive procedures, today we
00:12:15are witnesses that does that mean that nationally
00:12:17suitable candidates will be chosen at that moment
00:12:21over those who are the best?
00:12:25How much will that affect the quality of the chosen staff? If you followed
00:12:29the conference, you saw that in my presentation I said, it
00:12:33is implied that the legally prescribed procedure
00:12:36must be followed. Uh, today we are
00:12:40actually victims
00:12:42of the blockade of the institutions of Bosnia and
00:12:46Herzegovina by SNSD and
00:12:49HDZ and that coalition or
00:12:52partnership that they signed several
00:12:56years ago. Today we are victims of that, they have taken
00:13:00all the levers of decision-making, meaning, uh, but who enabled
00:13:03that, I want to ask you that, I asked that in the first question, how did it come to
00:13:07that, did the current
00:13:10existing structure uh, do that, as the opposition from
00:13:14the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina tries to blame
00:13:17them for, or is it a process that lasted much longer? It's a process that
00:13:20has been going on for many years, at least 10 years ago, uh
00:13:24when... it first appeared when the political agreement on the formation
00:13:28of the parliamentary majority uh, at that time it was
00:13:32SDA, DF, SNSD and HDZ, when it was
00:13:35agreed to the detriment of disrespecting
00:13:38the Constitution of Bosnia and Herzegovina, it was agreed that it would be,
00:13:42so it is about some political agreements, that's right, therefore, political
00:13:45agreements cannot go against the Constitution
00:13:49of Bosnia and Herzegovina, that is the key, key issue, because, well, with...
00:13:53the situation of the levers of decision-making, we have come to
00:13:56a situation where our institutions are being shut down, for example
00:13:59BHRT, Iga and so on. We have come to
00:14:03a situation where you cannot agree on the coefficients of distribution, well,
00:14:06the HDZ Minister of Finance has the right to veto. However,
00:14:10since 2023,
00:14:13the coefficients have not been corrected on
00:14:16the basis of final
00:14:20consumption, how it is calculated. But it is obvious that
00:14:24the SNSD and HDZ matrix
00:14:27works perfectly because they actually take
00:14:31as much as they need, as much as they want, abusing
00:14:34institutions because the most numerous people
00:14:37do not have the levers of decision-making, they do not have the levers
00:14:40of blockade, in the management board of the Indirect Taxation Authority we have
00:14:44only Zijad Krnić currently because
00:14:47that other expert who should be on the management board has not been appointed,
00:14:51who has the right to veto, the Minister of Finance of the state, that is Amidžić and
00:14:55entity Ministers of Finance, meaning from the Federation
00:14:58HDZ staff, from the Republic of Srpska SNSD staff, therefore,
00:15:01only Bosniaks can only collect
00:15:04taxes, and SNSD, HDZ will
00:15:08spend those taxes, that will no longer be possible, therefore,
00:15:11that's why all this, some
00:15:14say, we have raised tensions, we have not raised tensions, we demand that the Constitution and Laws
00:15:18of Bosnia and Herzegovina be respected, and we are constantly
00:15:21reproached, well, legitimate representation, legitimate representation. so let's
00:15:25see what legitimate representation is, is legitimate representation disrespecting the Constitution
00:15:29of Bosnia and Herzegovina, disrespecting the election law, if that is legitimate
00:15:32representation, then we, but do you think that things would relax if
00:15:36that Croatian component had, as they say,
00:15:39its legitimate member of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina,
00:15:42would things be, it's not just about the member
00:15:45of the Presidency, let's open all questions, this
00:15:49conference has shown that for example, SNSD and HDZ through Anita
00:15:53Markić, director of the agency for state service, choose Bosniaks
00:15:56and doorkeepers, because in the committee for the
00:16:00competition committee, she always chooses three members
00:16:04of the committee and two from the institution
00:16:08where the selection is made always has a majority, meaning it can also
00:16:11which is the worst thing, well, the last thing that is
00:16:15absolutely illegal and has elements
00:16:18of corruption, she herself brought
00:16:21a rulebook that
00:16:25only qualified candidates who score 100% of points
00:16:29on the exam during the competition procedure
00:16:33will have 100 points, only those who have both questions and answers, therefore.
00:16:37That is obvious corruption,
00:16:39the Council of Ministers is silent on all of that, it does not
00:16:43respect the conclusions of the Parliamentary
00:16:46Assembly nor of any house, it does not respect the law, it does
00:16:49not respect the constitution in the end, and it only matters what those
00:16:53historical centers of power will say, yes, but Bosnia and Herzegovina is conceived as
00:16:57it is conceived, we have such a state arrangement, do you see
00:17:01forces that would actually
00:17:04turn the country from a mess into a country with some kind of progress, that would actually
00:17:08reverse, overturn this paradigm, start
00:17:14the basis of conflict, are there such forces in Bosnia and
00:17:17Herzegovina at this moment, or are we all actually trapped in these ethnonationalisms
00:17:21in these conflicts that actually lead the country nowhere, of course there are forces
00:17:25and through conversations
00:17:27with colleagues, representatives and female representatives in the Parliamentary Assembly of Bosnia
00:17:31and Herzegovina uh one on one you can always
00:17:34reach a quality agreement, however... "when you enter
00:17:38the political arena in the
00:17:41hall of the Parliamentary Assembly, then it's completely
00:17:44different stories, therefore, there is no political
00:17:47agreement nor any parliamentary majority
00:17:51after the elections until these things that have gone, spun
00:17:55out of control, are agreed upon, therefore it's not just ethnic, ethnic
00:17:58representation, but it's also about spending money, it's about
00:18:02corruption, it's about disrespecting the constitution, all of that..."
00:18:05The worst that could happen in a country we unfortunately have today
00:18:09on the scene in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Yes, we mentioned that
00:18:13election law, well, again certain circles are mentioning
00:18:16a third election unit in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Of course, in an election
00:18:20year it's unlikely there will be any talk about it, nothing was managed to be
00:18:24discussed in the previous four years, although there were alleged
00:18:27announcements that the issue of the election law would be resolved. Do you think
00:18:31it's possible to reach an agreement on that issue, I don't mean
00:18:35this year, of course, but in some next period, and... that all parties will be satisfied
00:18:38or will we again have those who will lament and those who will, well, we are
00:18:42witnesses that for the last few election cycles, Mr.
00:18:46Čović has been promoting the thesis that Bosniaks elect
00:18:50a member of the Presidency from the Croatian people
00:18:53against the will of the Croatian people, but when the
00:18:57numbers are added up, it comes down to that, however
00:19:01Mr. Čović doesn't mind when, for example, the mayor of Vareš is elected
00:19:05by Bosniaks, and a Croat. Therefore,
00:19:07it's a matter of quality, offer honest candidates, why
00:19:11is it now, well, Mr. Čović offered Darijana
00:19:14Filipović as a candidate, why not, for example,
00:19:17the Chairperson of the Council of Ministers, Borana Krišto, who
00:19:21certainly has in a political
00:19:23sense the greatest potential, do you have any objections to
00:19:27Filipović, or no, absolutely not, Filipović is a very
00:19:31nice person, but uh, when you nominate
00:19:34someone, he deliberately went for the weaker ones. That's
00:19:38one thing, and the other thing is, he will consciously
00:19:41block the implementation of election results if it's not
00:19:44as he expects, in that way leaving
00:19:48Borjana Krišto to be the Chairperson of the Council of Ministers for perhaps another
00:19:51year, these are
00:19:54of course allowed in politics, but
00:19:57one should not attribute it to Bosniaks
00:20:01that Bosniaks actually don't want any
00:20:04agreement, he doesn't want an agreement, this situation suits him best. and him and Mr.
00:20:08Dodik have no responsibility to manage all processes.
00:20:11You commented on the case of colleague journalist Zoran
00:20:15Krešić, who is on the management board of federal television.
00:20:18You said that this is actually the best example of HDZ's policy.
00:20:22How do you connect these two cases? Well, look, to be the president
00:20:26of the Management Board of Radio Television of the Federation of Bosnia and
00:20:28Herzegovina, to call for not paying the RTV
00:20:31fee. Mr. Krešić, colleague Krešić himself said in our program
00:20:35that he actually pays first and has all receipts.
00:20:38To call, well, the whole political project, HDZ calls for not
00:20:42paying the RTV fee, we are witnesses that they don't pay, nor do they
00:20:45allow it, this should not be blamed on Mr. Krešić, Krešić is HDZ's
00:20:49staff, not mine, therefore, uh,
00:20:53to represent some policy that is actually
00:20:56retrograde, to use the benefits of that, I think
00:20:59it's not, it's not fair, it's not moral, it's not honest, if we can even
00:21:03talk about honesty in political waters, and when we talk about that
00:21:06honesty, well, during 11 years for severance pay, 15
00:21:10officials from the Parliament of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Council of Ministers and
00:21:14the Presidency took 440 million, or
00:21:17440,000 convertible marks, I apologize. Most of them, after
00:21:21receiving severance pay, continued to do their job, the latest
00:21:24case from Minister Helez's cabinet, namely, the chief of staff of the Minister
00:21:28of Defense, was paid almost 24,000 convertible marks
00:21:31for retirement severance pay, after which he was again appointed
00:21:35to the same position, how do you comment on that case, some say it is according to
00:21:39the law, but is it honest, is it moral, is it responsible to the citizens of this
00:21:43country, of course, of course not, well, we are witnesses that I and colleague Jasmin
00:21:46Nemira have problematized generally...
00:21:50the relationship, we have a lot of highly
00:21:52positioned officials in Bosnia and Herzegovina in the institutions of Bosnia and Herzegovina
00:21:56who are not just uh in retirement but have been
00:22:00pensioners for 17 years and still receive
00:22:03high allowances or salaries, for example, well,
00:22:06the Commission for Concessions, the man is 83 years old, he is
00:22:10still in the Commission for Concessions and has been for the last 17
00:22:13years, his other colleague from the Bosniak people has been there for I don't know 15
00:22:17years, the third is from the Serbian...
00:22:20Croatian people, I don't know 10 years and so
00:22:22on, why? Because
00:22:25there is no accountability from the Council of Ministers, or those
00:22:29who make decisions on this matter, well, we have
00:22:32made conclusions and initiatives,
00:22:36adopted initiatives in the House of Representatives, but
00:22:39this current Council of Ministers does not even want to, they
00:22:42even vote on whether they will implement
00:22:45initiatives, or the conclusions of the House.
00:22:50Well, that doesn't exist anywhere in the world in political practice,
00:22:53meaning the Council of Ministers is the one that answers to the parliament, and when the parliament makes
00:22:57a decision, they should implement it, they vote on it, of course
00:23:00and in ethnic voting it always falls,
00:23:04therefore, as long as such an attitude towards the state of Bosnia and Herzegovina, towards
00:23:08expect any
00:23:11positive step forward, what are we talking about, there are
00:23:14some things, for example in countries with developed democracies that are taken for granted,
00:23:18in Europe it's normal, "if someone makes an incident, they resign and
00:23:22the story is over, not with us, if it's not forbidden by law, if it's not
00:23:26prescribed by law, it's not respected, that's how it is with our Council
00:23:29of Ministers, they even look for
00:23:32excuses, they look for various machinations, to
00:23:36pass through ethnic and identity voting, not to
00:23:40implement, well, even the conclusions of the House, we started that
00:23:45the Commission for Transport and Communications
00:23:49position you warned about certain decisions of BH
00:23:52Ansa, this agency did not prevent it from
00:23:55sponsoring certain sports clubs with tens of thousands of convertible
00:23:58marks, it is allegedly uh media
00:24:02representation, or advertising, an agency that has no
00:24:05competition, is there a need to advertise and does it actually
00:24:09give the impression, given those attempts to question the management
00:24:12of BH Ansa, which ultimately ended up the way they
00:24:15did, that these agencies are above the law.
00:24:20above the institutions of the country, this was allowed by the Council of Ministers
00:24:23and the Council of the Agency, headed by the Council of the Agency, the head of the cabinet,
00:24:27the Minister of Transport and Communications, Mr. Forte,
00:24:31unfortunately, the Minister of Transport and Communications does not meddle in his job, that
00:24:34is a general conclusion here in the Committee for
00:24:38Transport and Communications, where, by the way, the opposition has
00:24:42a majority, so we can make any decision
00:24:46we want there, but it is obvious that we have not succeeded.
00:24:50to perform parliamentary oversight, which is
00:24:53provided for by the Law on Parliamentary
00:24:56Oversight. And of course, we informed
00:25:00the prosecutor's office about a possible criminal offense committed by
00:25:03the management of
00:25:06BHANSA. Therefore, it will come, perhaps now it is
00:25:10a slow procedure, but I am sure that instead of
00:25:13being heard in the committee, to communicate normally,
00:25:17to get information, to adopt conclusions, to direct, to
00:25:21help them and so on, they will have a hearing before
00:25:24the prosecutor's office, there is no doubt about that, in the meantime a public
00:25:28competition has been announced for the appointment of the director and one of the deputy directors in
00:25:31BH ANASA, the competition was published last month,
00:25:35if I'm not mistaken, almost four months after the expiration of the mandate for
00:25:38both Primorac and Marinković, do you expect that this competition procedure
00:25:42will be concluded in due time? That
00:25:45is just, he just, given that both of them do not, it seems
00:25:48to me, have the right to a third mandate, that's right, so
00:25:52both of them with this expired mandate, need to
00:25:55go, so new ones need to be selected, but the Council of Ministers
00:25:59confirms, meaning, the Council of the Agency elects and the Council
00:26:02of Ministers confirms, it is obvious and I am sure that this will not be
00:26:06in due time, therefore it is obvious
00:26:09that Director Primorac has political backing from
00:26:13the president of HDZ because of those family
00:26:15ties, but I am sure that we
00:26:19will persist, that is, on that the law is actually
00:26:22respected, because the whole game was about
00:26:26trying to hand over the control of the sky to our
00:26:29neighbors, uh, and B.
00:26:32Hansa plays a key role there, it's not just
00:26:36BH, there's BIH, DCA, there's the Ministry of Defense and so on. And
00:26:40they wanted to intervene on all three laws precisely to
00:26:43avoid the conclusion of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina from
00:26:472011, when it was tasked, that is,
00:26:50the Ministry to initiate a procedure to return to
00:26:53the jurisdiction of the state control of Bosnia and Herzegovina that part which
00:26:56is the Una-Sana Canton, that is a narrow strip, why
00:27:00for what, because overflights are charged, and...
00:27:02That means B. Hansa uh is actually the traffic
00:27:06controller, and the sky controller is the Ministry of Defense and
00:27:09that, meaning we must have sovereignty over our
00:27:13skies. With this crisis in the Middle
00:27:15East, terminals national terminals have
00:27:19once again come into the public's focus. You requested an urgent audit
00:27:23of the operations of the terminals in the Federation of BiH due to suspicions
00:27:26of, as you stated, millions of omissions. Do you actually
00:27:30have concrete evidence of what it's about?
00:27:33What kind of omissions are we talking about? Well, first of all, before I ask
00:27:36a question, I know the expected
00:27:39answer, that's why I'm asking to get
00:27:43official information from the terminals and
00:27:46from the relevant ministry and from the Federation government, it is obvious
00:27:50that the act
00:27:52of not allowing, or avoiding an audit,
00:27:56which is competent for all institutions, namely in the
00:27:59Federation, the State Audit, how long has it not been on... those
00:28:02terminals, I don't, I don't remember that there was an audit at all
00:28:05in the last few years, which
00:28:09is enough in itself to say that it leaves,
00:28:12it leaves room for some doubt, if everything is
00:28:15okay, why wouldn't they allow auditors to ascertain, to
00:28:19help them, to give them recommendations, to give them guidelines and so on,
00:28:23well, we can't all know everything, but it is
00:28:26obvious that through oil
00:28:29terminals, well, I used to be in the federal parliament. I remember
00:28:33well that some centers
00:28:36of power paid for
00:28:39oil terminals not to function,
00:28:42meaning that some lobbies have interests for such
00:28:45a thing, today the situation is very
00:28:48similar, therefore I will
00:28:51persist on this and it is obvious that
00:28:54the Federation government actually does not have a responsible
00:28:57attitude when it comes to the management of public enterprises and public
00:29:00institutions for... why am I saying this, it's not just this
00:29:04government composition, it's been like this for several years, well,
00:29:08a decade, imagine that you
00:29:12uh constantly conduct personnel policy and
00:29:15uh elect some party
00:29:18cadres, party cadres have
00:29:22political power, they have, they can disrupt
00:29:26political leaders, some of their ideas,
00:29:29policies, guidelines and so on, instead of... "first and foremost, competent
00:29:33people are elected who will have
00:29:35responsibility if the public enterprise does not
00:29:39operate positively, what do we have today, we have mines
00:29:42that owe funds over a hundred million
00:29:45convertible marks, who allowed that and it's not
00:29:49from yesterday, it's been several years, well,
00:29:52as I said, a decade, therefore the matter is
00:29:56the responsibility of elected and appointed
00:29:59officials in all positions and at all levels."
00:30:03because this country will not be able to bear it for
00:30:06much longer, because uh everyone is stealing it, it
00:30:10still survives, the question is only when, since we've already touched upon these
00:30:13energy topics, the Southern gas interconnector was somehow
00:30:16loudly announced as a project,
00:30:19very easily when American influences appeared
00:30:22there, it was adopted in the federal parliament, then
00:30:26criticisms started afterwards, it somehow seems, given that nothing
00:30:30else is happening on that issue, that the project. after it was
00:30:33adopted in the federal parliament
00:30:36forgotten, how do you comment on this situation, do you believe that
00:30:39it will actually be brought to an end and
00:30:43will Bosnia and Herzegovina bring some kind of relaxation regarding
00:30:47the gas supply, given that at
00:30:50this moment we only have that one branch which depends on one
00:30:54supplier? Well, I am not exactly optimistic that we will have
00:30:58a stable supply.
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