The new Minister of Foreign Affairs of Bosnia and Herzegovina BiH Elmedin Konakovic People and Justice Narod i Pravda NiP accused the former head of BiH diplomacy BiseraTurkovic SDA that there was no money in the budget for these two consulates during her mandate, and that there was no money for the pre-election campaign during the pre-election campaign.
It was opened at the end of August 2022 during the pre-election period. Pre-election bubble and playing with the dignity of BiH institutions, all for the sake of the party and a few votes. We have seen many weaknesses within the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in just two days, and we will talk about it in the following days. We are waiting for accurate information about who and how we pay real estate leases, if there are people there, who and how they are assigned and paid. Konakovic said that if people are doing something, it is probably illegal.
He said that the new government is proving how much the institutions of BiH were traded and how much they were devastated by the protectors. He added that the party to them is more important than the state and the people. If we don't respect our institutions, if we don't protect and strengthen them, how can we ask others to do that? What do the people in whose countries we open floating consulates think about our country? We will solve this problem quickly, God willing. We will solve the other problems that the party interest left behind. He stated that it is completely clear why they did everything to prevent us from entering the institutions, and it is very important that we did enter.
Some people find it objectionable that the General Consulates of BiH in Rijeka and Novi Pazar are open. They forgot that it was a decision and an order of the Presidency of BiH, which was implemented by which we strengthened the diplomatic and consular network of BiH. She said at the beginning that the intention is to draw the attention of the public from problems in the Eight where the SDP, as the largest party in the coalition, was humiliated and played.
She says half-truths and misinformation can't be presented in public.
The decision of the BiH Presidency was the result of the fact that the consulates were legally opened. The countries in which the consulates were opened gave their consent, and their state officials attended the opening. The appointment of the consuls general had to be done by the Presidency of BiH, and the systematization of the employees had to be approved by the Council of Ministers of BiH. She added that the coalition partners and their leaders, SNSD and HDZ, blocked it for months, which I spoke about in public on several occasions, and sent urgent messages.
She said that they tried to trade over it and put pressure on her to approve enormous funds for the purchase of the ITA building.
I didn't allow that, but I didn't give up on expanding the diplomatic consular representative DKP network and implementing the decision of the BiH Presidency, which is in the interest of many BiH citizens who gravitate to those consulates. If the new government is going to dismantle what has been built, instead of continuing to build the state, then we are entering a very uncertain future. If the new leadership of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs wants to prove itself, it should immediately open eight BiH embassies according to the decision of the BiH Presidency! Turkovic, Klix.ba, said that statements that say something is probable are the height of political manipulation in which someone is accused of something he believes is probable. A responsible politician checks the truth, then says what is certain and does not accuse on the basis of probability.