Government of the Republika Srpska ordered the Ministry of Internal Affairs of RS to immediately approach the finishing of Agreement on cooperation and coordination with the State Investigation and Protection Agency (SIPA) B&H.
After yesterday’s working-consultative session, it was announced that the RS Government fully supports activities by the MIA RS on establishing cooperation with SIPA within the framework of current legal regulations, with full respect for constitutional structure of B&H and jurisdictions of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
President of the RS Government Željka Cvijanović expects the agreement on operational cooperation and coordination between the MIA RS and SIPA B&H to be signed on Wednesday, December 16.
Cvijanović said that the cooperation already exists, and it will become functional again as of Wednesday, when all procedures are to be defined.
Furthermore, Cvijanović did not want to comment on allegations that this means the RS succumbed before the state, but she highlighted that it is important that yesterday a meeting was held between the ministers of security of B&H and of internal affairs of RS, Dragan Mektić and Dragan Lukač, after which it was stated that it should be approached to innovating and strengthening the already existing protocol and procedures in cooperation between MIA RS and SIPA B&H.
(Source: novovrijeme.ba)
