The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), Elmedin Konakovic, stated that the Constitutional Court of BiH will certainly be discussed, and that he is ready for talks, but not for blackmail.
He added that the law on the Constitutional Court of BiH must be passed.
“Now, under pressure to exclude foreign judges, to introduce ethnic voting in the Constitutional Court, that would really confirm the lies about us that we are there because of some functions and that we meet some demands, which is not the case,” pointed out Konakovic.
He added that they are ready to talk 24 hours a day about state property, the Constitutional Court, and everything from the 14 priorities, and to make a schedule of when and what should happen.
“The 14 priorities do not say the departure of foreign judges, but the resolution of the issue. We are ready to sit down and discuss the issue. We have some solutions ready for state property. Some will not like it, but we can discuss them. We are ready to talk, and we are not ready to respond to any kind of blackmail,” stressed Konakovic.
As he said, the Constitutional Court is a topic, “for us, it is one of the most important things in BiH, a corrector of all bad behavior, a guarantor of the existence of BiH, and no one can play with the Constitutional Court”.
“We can talk about it, negotiate, and we will never vote for it to introduce an ethnic possibility to stop any judicial or court process. We are ready for talks, we are not ready for blackmail. If someone says vote now so that foreign judges could leave the Constitutional Court today, then we will continue, there is no more. That is some kind of ultimatum to which we do not agree. Let us agree to talk as soon as possible about state property, about the Constitutional Court, its convening, the position of foreign judges inside, and not their departure, that is, their departure or stay, that’s a topic we can talk about every day. An ultimatum, we really don’t have the strength,” said Konakovic.
When asked if there is any indication of when the coalition partners will “sit down at the table” again, Konakovic said that they should offer a solution at the beginning of next week.
“To offer de-escalation, so let’s say what is acceptable at this moment and what is it that BiH can continue to move”, stressedKonakovic, and added:
“If there’s any sense, if they cool their heads, we can make a package at the beginning of next week that is already part of our agreement and say ‘okay, let’s go to the session of the BiH Parliament’. At those sessions, such and such acts will be adopted and the minister of finance will be appointed. Just appointing a minister, and then pretending to move on, it doesn’t make any sense for us.”
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