The Bosnia and Herzegovina delegation is fully prepared for the confrontation with Croatian representatives on the Trgovska Gora case, which is scheduled for May 14 in Geneva, stated the Serbian Minister for Spatial Planning, Construction and Ecology of the Republika Srpska, Bojan Vipotnik.
Vipotnik, who is leading the BiH delegation, stressed that they are both legally and politically prepared for this event.
He stressed that they are aware that Croatia will use everything to show that Trgovska Gora is a favorable location, even though preliminary results show that it does not meet any of the criteria required for storing nuclear waste.
“We know that the environmental impact study has reached the competent Croatian ministry, but we do not yet have information about their position on it. However, according to the latest information, the study is being studied and if it is approved, it will go to a public hearing and then it will have to be submitted to the representatives of BiH,” Vipotnik stressed.
He stated that laboratory tests of the field work, carried out by the Geozavod Republika Srpska, are underway, and added that this part of the research is also nearing completion in the FBiH.
He stressed that BiH is ready to refute Croatian arguments professionally, scientifically, and politically, and that the Permanent Mission of BiH to the UN is a point of contact with the Espoo Convention.
Croatia plans to store radioactive waste from the Krško Nuclear Power Plant, as well as existing institutional waste, at the Trvovska gora location in the Dvor municipality, right on the border with BiH.
