Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic announced yesterday in Srebrenica that his country will donate 10 million BAM to this municipality. However, there is still no indication of when the issue of compensation that Serbia owes to B&H municipalities for flooded land could be solved.
Camil Durakovic, the Mayor of Srebrenica, said that yesterday’s donation is a modest gift to Srebrenica and that it has nothing to do with the flooded land.
“The issue of payment of the debt for the flooded land is a separate subject that will be resolved bilaterally between the two countries, at the level of B&H and Serbia. It is primarily a legal issue,” said Durakovic.
He noted that yesterday’s donation is not a reparation for genocide but a gift which is marking the beginning of a new future, as well as the cooperation between Bosniaks and Serbs.
Until 1992, Serbia was regularly paying compensation for flooded land of reservoirs “Perucac” to the Municipality of Srebrenica. Today, however, there is no precise data regarding how much Serbia owes to Srebrenica on behalf of these fees.
The municipal authorities of Srebrenica earlier calculated that Serbia is owing 30 million BAM, based on the amount of money that Serbia pays for the same purposes to the Serbian municipality of Bajina Basta.
However, Srebrenica is not the only one not to receive payment of these fees. The mayor of Zvornik Zoran Stevanovic also counted that Serbia’s debt to that municipality is also somewhere between 25 and 30 million BAM. Bratunac, Rogatica and Visegrad are counting on the same fee from Serbia as well.
At a joint session of the Government of Serbia and the Council of Ministers of B&H was agreed to form an intergovernmental expert commission that will make concrete action plan to solve this problem in cooperation with the entities.
Meanwhile, while we wait for the commission, not only that Serbia does not pay the debt, but it is also not paying for the current obligations on the same basis. Only in 2015, Serbia was supposed to pay about 6 million BAM to B&H municipalities.
(Source: klix.ba)
