The Republika Srpska President Milorad Dodik said that the Republika Srpska will enter into the process of passing and adoption of the new constitution of the Republika Srpska next year (2018).
The United States Ambassador to Bosnia and Herzegovina, Maureen Cormack, pointed out that the Referendum on the Court of BiH and the Prosecutor’s Office of BiH needs to be completely abolished, and not suspended, in the National Assembly of RS, thus preventing the issue from being re-activated in the future.
The Chairman of the Council of Ministers of Bosnia and Herzegovina Denis Zvizdic said that after some time and certain blockages, in the last three months all the bodies of the Coordination Mechanism are working very valuable, very expertly, in accordance with the planned dynamics.
Mirko Šarović reiterated that if BiH adopted the Rural Development Strategy by the end of the year, EUR 75 million would be available from the European Commission for the next three years, but the opinion of the Republika Srpska and the Brčko District is still pending on the proposed document.
The RS President Milorad Dodik spoke in Banja Luka with the delegation of the Balkan Club of the Moscow State Institute for International Relations of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia. He spoke about possibilities of opening a representative office of the Balkan Club of the Moscow State Institute for International Relations in RS, and holding events titled “Days of RS in Moscow” and “Days of Russian Federation in Banja Luka”.
The results of the visit of the Chairman of the Presidency of BiH Dragan Čović are conversations with the associations that gather our emigrants including at least the second and third generation, and the goal is to tie them to the country in order to give their contribution to the quality of life in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia.
Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives of BiH Mladen Bosic said in an interview with Anadoli that “Mostar is something that is inconceivable in any democracy, that the elections could not be held for so long”. Furthermore, he states, “Practically, you have a dynastic power that is not voted. I do not know on the basis of what credibility, or from where it is drawn to rule at all,” Bosic says.
The President of the National Assembly of the Republika Srpska Nedeljko Cubrilovic spoke today in his cabinet with the US Ambassador in Bosnia and Herzegovina Maureen Cormack. Čubrilović expressed his expectation that the National Assembly Collegium will determine the agenda of the special session, which will discuss the decision on putting out of force the Decision on Calling the Republican Referendum on the Court and the Prosecutor’s Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The minimum hourly rate is 2.60 KM, the duration of the working week is 37.5 hours, and the coefficient of past service is 0.5. With this agreement the Prime Minister of the Sarajevo Canton Elmedin Konaković and the union president Edo Selimić signed a Collective Agreement on the rights and obligations of employers and health workers in the Canton of Sarajevo, which ended the strike of healthcare workers that lasted for 21 days.
Minister of Defense of Bosnia and Herzegovina Marina Pendesh pointed out in an interview with Fena that efforts in the context of rapprochement with Euro-Atlantic integration remained in the focus of the activities of the Ministry of Defense of BiH (MoBiH) and the Armed Forces of BiH (OSBiH).
Representatives of the SDP BiH, DF and SBB held a meeting on the joint proposal of the Law on Electoral Units and the number of mandates in the FBiH Parliament. Irfan Čengić, Secretary General of the SDP of BiH, said that the scope of electoral units would not be changed, except for the number of mandates in accordance with the valid population census.
“I think that they (Croatian representatives) have been pre-combined so far in political calculations since the disintegration of former Yugoslavia. First they clearly supported the referendum on the independence of BiH, then they fought against Muslims in a few years, and you see the epilogue of that war in yesterday’s judgments”, the RS President Milorad Dodik responded to the question to comment on the yesterday’s verdict of the Herceg-Bosna leaders before the Hague Tribunal.
The Financial Action Task Force (FATF), in a plenary session in Buenos Aires (Argentina) issued a decision granting “on-site visit” to Bosnia and Herzegovina as an essential step towards the final removal of Bosnia and Herzegovina from the FATF “gray list”.
After Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said that Serbia is a guarantor of the Dayton Accords and so that it may not interfere with internal affairs of BiH, the OHR says that Serbia is only one of signatories to the Dayton Agreement and that it must respect the sovereignty of its neighbor.
Ratko Mladic was sentenced to life imprisonment. The first-instance verdict that has been awaited for more than twenty years has been pronounced at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY).
Before the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, the verdicts have been reached in the case against former political and military leaders of the self-proclaimed Herceg-Bosna – Jadranko Prlic (25 years in prison), Bruno Stojic (20 years), Slobodan Praljak (20 years), Milivoje Petkovic (20 years), Valentin Coric (16 years) and Berislav Pusic (10 years in prison).
