It is necessary to continue the joint struggle of institutions at all levels of government against Croatia’s intention to build a repository for radioactive waste and spent nuclear fuel right on the border with Bosnia and Herzegovina, it was announced after today’s meeting between the Minister of Foreign Trade and Economic Relations of Bosnia and Herzegovina Staša Košarac and the Prime Minister of the Federation BiH Nermin Nikšić.
They discussed the controversial construction of such a landfill on Trgovska Gora.
According to the statement of the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Relations of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the meeting held in the Government of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina was attended by the representative of the Green Club in the Parliamentary Assembly of Bosnia and Herzegovina Saša Magazinović and the Federal Minister of Environment and Tourism Nasiha Pozder, who will be appointed to the Coordination Body for Trgovska Gora.
The previous Government of the Federation of BiH, it was pointed out at the meeting, was in a certain kind of deadlock in relation to the institutions of the Republika Srpska when it comes to the implementation of activities from the work plan of the Expert Team for Trgovska Gora. It was stated that this primarily refers to the adoption of entity action plans and the provision of money for conducting geological, hydrological and seismological research in the territory of the Republika Srpska and the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, which will be indicators of the impact of the eventual construction of a landfill at the specified location.
“I am encouraged by the fact that at one of the first sessions, the new Federal Government adopted the information with all the recommendations of the Expert Team and the Coordination Body, which refers to the necessity of research in the territory of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina. This will allow the Federation of BiH to follow the pace of activities of the institutions of the Republika Srpska,” said Minister Košarac.
A model was also accepted that the institutions of the Republika Srpska finance and conduct research in that entity, and the institutions of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina in this entity.
“It is also significant that the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina allocated certain funds from the budget for financing research in the first phase and that they are determined to provide funds in the budgets for the following years. Republika Srpska previously provided financial resources, as well as institutions at the BiH level,” said Minister Košarac.
He informed the interlocutors about the results of his meetings with the governments of Slovenia and Hungary regarding the disposal of radioactive waste and spent nuclear fuel at Trgovska Gora, stressing that he received support for the position that the best solution would be to dispose of radioactive waste and spent nuclear fuel in a place where occur, that is, in the Krško Nuclear Power Plant.
During today’s meeting, it was agreed to intensify diplomatic activity and that the issue of the construction of the disputed landfill on Trgovska Gora be a topic of discussion at international conferences and meetings with foreign officials.
“We have agreed that through joint activities we will try to provide support not only to Slovenia and Hungary, but also to other EU member states, in order to help the efforts of local communities, institutions of the Republika Srpska, the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the common level in the fight against the construction of a landfill on Trgovska Gora,” emphasizes Minister Košarac.
