Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives of the Parliamentary Assembly of Bosnia and Herzegovina Denis Zvizdić reacted to the statement of a candidate for the BiH Presidency, Borjana Krišto, who, as Zvizdić stressed, treading after her coalition partners from the SNSD, referred to Bosnia and Herzegovina as a “union state”.
“The use of such an anti-constitutional phrase is another confirmation of the justification of my request for constitutional review, which will declare the use of the terms “joint institutions” and a “union state” unconstitutional.
I expect the Constitutional Court to make such a decision as soon as possible. And let’s repeat the lesson for those who deny the statehood of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Bosnia and Herzegovina is not a “union state” nor are the entities “states”, but they are only administrative-territorial units within Bosnia and Herzegovina. And nothing more,” Zvizdić pointed out.
BiH, he adds, is a country that has its own territorial integrity, sovereignty, political independence and subjectivity under international law.
“There are no, nor will there ever be, “joint institutions”, but only the institutions of the state of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Therefore, BiH is an independent, integral, democratic and European state of all patriotically oriented constitutional peoples and citizens, and there will be no ethno-territorial divisions or communities based solely on ethnic principles. Bosnia and Herzegovina comes first, above all else,” concluded Zvizdić.
BiH Presidency member Željko Komšić reacted to the statements of Borjana Krišto, who called BiH a “state community”.
Komšić emphasized that Bosnia and Herzegovina is not a “state union”.
“Kristo obviously still hasn’t had time to read the first sentence of Article 1 of the Constitution of Bosnia and Herzegovina which says ‘The Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, whose official name is from now on ‘Bosnia and Herzegovina’, continues its legal existence under international law as a state, with its internal structure modified this Constitution, and with the existing internationally recognized borders,” said Komšić.
As he added, as for what kind of BiH HDZ was fighting for, “the matter is clear, and that struggle is described in the judgments of international courts”, Klix.ba writes.
