Since taking office until October 27, 2017, members of the Presidency of BiH officially visited 91 countries. The member of the Presidency of BiH from the Serbian people Mladen Ivanic traveled the most, and the member of the Presidency of BiH from the Bosniak people Bakir Izetbegovic traveled the least.
Since recently, the public in BiH is speculating on the economic justification of the official trips of state officials to foreign countries, considering that the international position of our country in the international community has not been much improved.
It is interesting that the Minister of Foreign Affairs of BiH in the year of 2017, according to the data from the official website of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of BiH, visited more countries than all three members of the Presidency of BiH together. Crnadak had 44 different official trips during the less than ten months of 2017, while Covic, Izetbegovic, and Ivanic had a total of 27 visits.
From the year of 2014 until the beginning of November 2017, Ivanic had a total of 38 official visits, Covic had 30 official trips and Izetbegovic had 17 official trips. Moreover, members of the Presidency of BiH had six joint trips.
The data from the Presidency of BiH show that a member of the Presidency from the Croatian People, Dragan Covic, mostly traveled to neighboring Croatia (19 times), a member of the Presidency from the Serbian People, Mladen Ivanic, to neighboring Serbia (14 times), and a member of the Presidency of BiH from the Bosniak people, Bakir Izetbegovic, to Turkey (10 times).
(Source: Ervin Musinovic/Klix.ba)
