After it was announced that neighboring Croatia sold the Sipad Port in Sibenik, which is state property of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), politicians in BiH did not say a single word condemning such behavior, while the initiation of arbitration proceedings is clearly an abstract noun.
Sipad Port, owned by the BiH company Sipad Export-Import, was sold to a Turkish corporation for 100 million BAM, even though it is the state property of BiH.
This practically means that our neighbor has acquired an illegal property benefit for the same amount of money that the Canton Sarajevo (CS) will not receive this year due to the change in shares, which is why the cantonal authorities previously announced possible debts as a realistic scenario.
To illustrate, that money is earmarked this year as funds for the procurement of equipment for the Armed Forces of BiH (AFBiH), for which there has been a political struggle for years.
In conclusion, 100 million BAM is not an insignificant figure for a country whose budgets are mostly social and where citizens have salaries that cannot respond to even a part of inflationary trends.
The BiH Government and its relationship with Croatia
As far as the public is aware, none of the BiH politicians from the new government at the state level raised the issue of BiH state property, the value of which is estimated at several billion BAM, during their initial visits to Croatia.
Thus, during the visits of our politicians to Croatia, we could not hear a single word about the protection of state property of all citizens of our country.
For decades, Croatia has been selling BiH property to third parties and corporations and illegally disposing of our state’s property, and in 2018, that state adopted a law granting leases and concessions to real estate that was previously prohibited from being disposed of.
None of the politicians in BiH apparently aims to take a clear position when it comes to national interests because if it were the other way around, information would have appeared yesterday that a note of protest was sent to the neighboring country or that the Attorney General’s Office was asked to initiate arbitration proceedings after decades of representing our country before Croatian courts.
If the new BiH government, at least those parties that care about this country, deal only with things that can be agreed upon, the room for maneuvering such a policy is extremely small, since our country’s neighbors have an interest in appropriating our resources.
A question arises when the citizens will witness the first concrete action of the new government to protect the interests of BiH in relation to matters on which the interested parties have diametrically opposed views, Klix.ba reports.
