Members of the informal group of citizens ReSTART Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) told High Representative (HR),Christian Schmidt, yesterday that the previously agreed meeting must be held only as agreed, live in the Office of the High Representative (OHR) or not at all.
ReSTART representative Hasna Ljubovic reminded that at the protests held on January 10th, they agreed to wait seven days for a conversation with HR. At the meeting, she added, HR was supposed to offer them answers on what and when to do regarding their eight requests.
“The agreement was that the meeting would take place today. However, on Friday, January 14th, we were informed by the OHR that there would be no live meeting, due to epidemiological measures. They offered us an online meeting,” Ljubovic noted yesterday.
She stressed that they organized a survey among citizens and determined that the meeting must be held live.
She recalled eight requests to HR, including decisive measuresby the United Nations (UN), NATO, and the European Union (EU) to preserve peace and stability in the Western Balkans, the implementation of European Court of Human Rights rulings,and the suspension of all negotiations aimed at preserving existing the situation in BiH and the deepening of decades of discrimination and the rule of ethnocracy, the enabling of electronic voting in the next elections, as well as the unconditional application of provisions prohibiting genocide denial and eliminating the effects of genocide.
Ljubovic explained that citizens also demanded that the Peace Implementation Council (PIC) give unreserved support to HR for the use of the Bonn powers in BiH, for full rule of law, then for HR to immediately end the blockade of state institutions and immediately annul all decisions of the National Assembly of Republika Srpska (RS) on the return of competencies.
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Source: BHRT
