The Bosnian intellectual diaspora adopted a series of conclusions at the meeting in Frankfurt yesterday, which were forwarded to relevant addresses in the country and the world, the organizers announced.
More than 130 intellectuals participated in the all-day discussion – doctors of science, university professors, engineers, doctors of medicine, the president of Bosnia and Herzegovina’s associations.
In the conclusions, it was pointed out that BH citizens, settled outside of Bosnia and Herzegovina, advocate for a sovereign and integral BiH of equal peoples and citizens with full civil and human rights and freedoms, following the example of Germany and the majority of countries in the European Union.
The conclusions highlight the advocacy for Bosnia and Herzegovina as a full member of the European Union and NATO.
Constitutional and electoral reforms, they point out, should be implemented throughout the territory of Bosnia and Herzegovina in accordance with all judgments of the European Court of Human Rights (Sejdic-Finci, Pilav, Zornic, Pudaric and Slaku), which will also prevent discriminatory favoring of ethnic constituent groups.
From the meeting, energetic opposition was sent to the possible unprincipled imposition of the election law by the high representative, which would put the citizens of BiH in an unequal position and further deepen ethnic divisions to the detriment of the civic concept.
The proposal to the Government of Germany to operationally implement the principles of the recently adopted Resolution on Bosnia and Herzegovina in the Bundestag also ‘left’ the meeting.
In the continuation of the conclusions, it was proposed to the Central Electoral Commission of BiH to consider and enable voting at polling stations, without the need to vote by mail, in all major cities where a significant number of BiH citizens live in diaspora.
The participants of the meeting expressed their gratitude to the current German government for the initiative to amend the registry that regulates the possibility of obtaining German citizenship without the need to renounce BiH citizenship (dual citizenship), as well as the initiative to the competent institutions of BiH for the formation of a ministry for the diaspora.
The conclusions appeal to BiH diaspora to work together on projects aimed at preserving the native language and cultural identity.
In the introductory part, the representatives of the Bundestag, Adis Ahmetovic and Boris Mijatovic, the Consul General of BiH in Frankfurt, Visnja Loncar and the Consul General of BiH in Stuttgart, Began Muhic, addressed the attendees.
