The building where the first session of the State Anti-Fascist Council of the National Liberation of Bosnia and Herzegovina (ZAVNOBiH) was held on November 25th, 1943, was finally renovated.
The Alliance of Anti-Fascists and Fighters of the National Liberation War published photos of the reconstructed building in Mrkonjic Grad. They thanked all those who contributed to it. In 2002, the Commission to Preserve State Monuments of BiHdeclared this building a National Monument.
This building in which modern BiH was created has been falling into disrepair for years because no level of government wanted to give money for its reconstruction. Every November 25th it is a meeting place during the celebration of Statehood Day.
After almost five centuries, BiH restored its statehood at the very first session of the State Anti-Fascist Council. Then the individual and collective freedoms and rights of citizens after the Second World War were harmonized. The key agreement was that the state was “neither Serbian, nor Croatian, nor Muslim, but Serbian, Croatian, and Muslim should be united.”
The second session of ZAVNOBiH was held at the end of June and the beginning of July 1944 in Sanski Most, and the third in April 1945 in Sarajevo. The National Assembly of BiH was formed from ZAVNOBiH.
