Member of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina Denis Bećirović spoke with the President of the Jewish community in Bosnia and Herzegovina Jakob Finci, the President of the Jewish Municipality of Sarajevo Boris Kožemjakin, and Vladimir Andrle on the current status of Jews in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and their centuries contribution to the Bosnian multicultural society.
In the most difficult times for Bosnia and Herzegovina, Jews firmly stood with the idea of Bosnia, as the countries of the unity of diversity.
Today, Bosnian Jews, together with other citizens of Bosnia and Herzegovina, face the consequences of migration and significant youth departure, Bećirović’s cabinet announced.
During the visit to the seat of the Jewish community in Sarajevo, he said that Jews were an integral part of the Bosnian society in the last 450 years.
Arrival in Bosnia and Herzegovina Sephard Jews, in the second half of the 16th century, has significantly contributed to the multicultural character of the BH. society. He accepted the Jews, who were expelled from Spain, Bosnia and Herzegovina showed that at that moment it was one of the most open countries in Europe.
“We do everything to develop a modern Bosnian society on the foundations of multiculturalism, full of freedoms and equality, in which no individual group is not to feel vulnerable, adding that the strengthening of state institutions and consistent implementation of domestic and International court judgments, ensure the rule of law and equality of all citizens of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Thanking the visit, Jakob Finci pointed out that the state of Bosnia and Herzegovina provided Jews full security, and that members of the Jewish community for centuries, together with others, built and guarded their homeland Bosnia and Herzegovina.
However, there are still strong undemocratic forces that prevent the country’s democratization and its advancement towards European and Euro-Atlantic integration.
“On December 22, 2023, he reached for 14 years from the adoption and non-admiration of the Judgment” Sejdić-Finci “, which is guaranteed by any citizen of Bosnia and Herzegovina to elect and be elected in democratic elections. The decision issued by the European Court Rights. It has not yet been implemented, which directly affects the rights of citizens who do not belong to the peoples of the Constituents of the Dayton Peace Agreement, “emphasized.
The interlocutors agreed that it was necessary to dynamize and strengthen the work of the Interreligious Council in Bosnia and Herzegovina, as well as more powerful to promote dialogue and tolerance in Bosnian society, was published from the Cabinet of the Member of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina Denis Bećirović.
