Member of the Presidency of BiH from the Republika Srpska Mladen Ivanić stated that the division of the clearing debt is defined with the Law on Succession and that there is no discussion about that, because the RS will get the third that belongs to it and there are no conditions for that.
Ivanić believes that, regarding the resolution of the issue of the clearing debt of the Russian Federation towards BiH, all national political games regarding the offer by the Ministry of Finance of Russia to pay that debt in cash must be avoided.
According to Ivanić, the Presidency of BiH will, if they obtain the information about the Russian debt at all, reach a decision on that, and until that happens the various opposed political attitudes can only jeopardize the offer.
“I am not sure there is a need for anyone else to discuss this anymore. However, if this reaches the Presidency of BiH, then that is what we will do,” Ivanić said.
Ivanić reminded that now it only remains that the two entity governments harmonize with the proposal of the solution and things will develop automatically.
“I think that Russia as a serious country deserves to stay out of our internal political conflicts, because they are harmful,” Ivanić assessed.
Ivanić believes that all the news spreading through Republika Srpska lately are anticipatory.
“The decision is still very far and I only hope that our internal conflicts will not jeopardize this more than concrete offer by the Ministry of Finance of Russia,” Ivanić said. Furthermore, he invited the relevant political actors to engage again in institutional discussions, instead of using this issue to raise political conflicts.
Minister of Foreign Trade and Economic Relations of BiH Mirko Šarović earlier stated that the “Serb representatives in Sarajevo will determine for what the 70 million BAM from the Russian debt will be allocated, as well as 200 million BAM from the Central Bank”. Šarović also said that representatives of the Alliance for Change in Sarajevo will not allow the money from the Russian debt towards BiH to end in the budget of Republika Srpska.
(Source: klix.ba)
