Joseph Daul: “I am mostly concerned by a distance between political elites and the citizens. And that distance has been growing in recent years”.
The topics of the meeting between the Prime Minister of Serbia Ms. Brnabić and the Ambassador of Turkey to Serbia Mr. Bilgic, were the infrastructure projects in which the Turkish side is interested, such as the Kraljevo airport, highway connecting Tutin, Novi Pazar and Sjenica, and the Belgrade – Sarajevo highway.
Milorad Dodik: “We now have a concrete document determining that Republika Srpska does not give its consent regarding the NATO integration and we will follow the position of Serbia.”
The Official Opening Ceremony of the exercise “Quick Response 2017” in the EUFOR Main Command at the Butmir base in Sarajevo. The showcase during the ceremony was attended by the members of the EUFOR reserve forces from the United Kingdom, the Reserve tactical battalion of the NATO forces in Kosovo and the units from the EUFOR Multi-national Battalion consisting of Hungarian and Turkish soldiers. The soldiers were joined by members of the SIPA and the Border Police, including their official dogs, the EUFOR reported.
Dragan Čović, Chairman of the Presidency of BiH, met with the Archbishop of the Vrhbosna Archdiocese, Cardinal Vinko Puljić, with whom he discussed the position of Croats-Catholics in Bosnia and Herzegovina, both on the pastoral – religious and political level.
The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Bosnia and Herzegovina Mr. Igor Crnadak paid an official visit to the Vatican where he emphasized that the strategic goal of Bosnia and Herzegovina was membership in the European Union and called on the Holy Chair to support with its influence the path of BiH to full membership in the European Union.
“Long live the Turkish-Serbian friendship, long live Serbia,” Vučić said in a joint address to the citizens with the President of the Republic of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, in Novi Pazar. Vučić told the gathered citizens that in the coming months he would start developing the design documentation for the road the Corridor 11 of the Požega-Boljare highway, which passes through the Pešter Plateau, in order to connect this region with Belgrade, Sarajevo and Podgorica.
Croatian President Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović will travel next week for an official visit to Russia and meet with President Vladimir Putin. One of the issues to be discussed, among many other, will certainly be the one of Agrokor, in which the Russian banks, Sberbank and VTB, have invested huge amount of money and are expecting a debt repayment. The situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina will be one of the issues to be discussed.
On Friday, October 13th, a meeting of the HDZ 1990 Presidency was held in Kupres, at which the guidelines for the HDZ 1990 political campaign for the 2018 General Elections were discussed. A special accent was put on the communion of the Croatian people, taking responsibility and fighting wrong policies in BiH.
In his address to the press after the meeting held yesterday in Banja Luka upon his initiative, which was attended by representatives of ruling coalition (SNSD, DNS and SP), as well as by the Deputy Prime Minister of the National Assembly of RS Nenad Stevandić, along with members of the organizations that emerged from the past war and representatives of the Serbian Orthodox Chrurch (SPC), Dodik said that what was noted in the meeting was the fact that the withdrawal of judges and prosecutors from the Court of BiH and the Prosecutor’s Office of BiH would be the most effective solution in this situation.
The Council of the European Union (EU) in the conclusions on Bosnia and Herzegovina today concluded that: “Bearing in mind that in the Constitution of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosniaks, Croats and Serbs are listed as constituent peoples, together with others, the Council reiterated that the principles of equality of all citizens and non-discrimination must be fully guaranteed. They stressed that no legislative or political step should be taken to make it difficult to implement the Sejdić and Finci judgment and other related judgments.
The Chairman of the Presidency of BiH Dragan Čović said on Monday in Belgrade that he hoped that a trilateral meeting of Serbia, Croatia and B&H would soon be agreed, and that he expected the expert team of Belgrade to offer a solution on the issue of the disputed borders between Serbia and BiH. As for the Declaration on the Survival of Serbian People he said: “I think that such a decision is most welcome, by virtue of which we will resolve many issues in the long run, both when it comes to the Serbian people, and all the three people in BiH “.
President of Serbia Aleksandar Vučić said today that Serbia was ready to hold a trilateral meeting of representatives of Serbia, Croatia and BiH.