The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Bosnia and Herzegovina(BiH), Bisera Turkovic, yesterday sent a demarche to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Israel and the embassy of this country in Tirana, regarding the embassy’s positions on the election law of BiH.
To recall, the Israeli Embassy pointed out that the proposals of the “Croatian side” in BiH regarding changes to the national Election Law are welcome.
State Minister of Foreign Affairs Bisera Turkovic pointed out in her demarche that:
“Any support for electoral reform that would discriminate against the citizens of BiH because of their ethnic or religious affiliation was unequivocally rejected by the majority of parliamentary parties in BiH.”
The proposals of the “Croatian side” or HDZ BiH are mainly aimed at maintaining the concept of “constituency of the people” which is opposite to the civil concept, and among others they discriminate against the Jewish minority in our country.
“Today, during a telephone conversation with Ambassador HE Noah Gal Gendler, I conveyed the message that the demarche sent to the Embassy of Israel in Tirana is not the official position of the state of BiH, but only the position of a political party,” stated yesterday Josip Brkic, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of BiH.
Brkic‘s reaction to the reaction of Milorad Dodik, a member of the Presidency of BiH, who yesterday also sent harsh criticism regarding the demarche, pointing out that the minister abuses her position and “expresses personal and party views on important issues” without first consulting with the Presidency, which is responsible for defining course of foreign policy of the state.
The fact that Brkic, who comes from the HDZ, a party that is the “Croatian side” whose proposals to amend the Election Law of BiH are “welcomed”, seems to be working in parallel within the institutions of BiH and communicates with diplomatic missions, is not at all surprising, since such a thing has already been done by the forces from smaller BiH entity Republika Srpska (RS) for years. HDZ began to copy the book “Instructions for the (mis)use of BiH institutions” authored by the SNSD, Klix.ba reports.
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