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Arnaut: Did BiH officials use foreign documents to cross BiH border?

FENA Press release

SARAJEVO, July 31 (FENA) - Regarding media reports that officials in institutions of Bosnia and Herzegovina used travel documents of other countries on official trips, MP in the House of Representatives of the Parliamentary Assembly of BiH Damir Arnaut asked for information from the BiH Border Police and the BiH Ministry of Civil Affairs whether these and other BiH officials used foreign passports when crossing the BiH border and, if so, whether they were issued misdemeanor sanctions in accordance with the BiH Law on Travel Documents.

Arnaut notes in a press release that Article 25a. of the Law clearly stipulates that a fine of 100 to 400 KM will be prescribed for the offense of “a BiH citizen who crosses the border of Bosnia and Herzegovina with travel documents not regulated by this Law or with an identity card that is not an identity card of BiH citizens.” The article of the law further stipulates that for this offense “a protective measure of confiscation of a travel document may be imposed, that is, a protective measure of prohibition of issuing a travel document for up to two years.”

“Given that this Law regulates exclusively the issues of ‘travel documents of Bosnia and Herzegovina’ (Article 1), specific types of which are prescribed by Article 4 of the Law, it is clear that crossing the BiH border with travel documents of other countries is an offense,” considers Arnaut.

He states that such provisions and sanctions are standard in many democratic states and do not prejudice the right to dual citizenship, but merely establish the obligation for nationals of a given country to use their travel documents and not travel documents of other countries when crossing the country's border.

(FENA) L. N.

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