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SARAJEVO, October 10 (FENA) – The Foundation of the Society of Shared Values Sarajevo hosted today a high-level meeting on "The European Union, future of the Western Balkans and Human Rights - Tell the truth to the powerful", in collaboration with the President of the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Foundation, Kerry Kennedy and the Nizami Ganjavi International Center.
The event was dedicated to the integration of the Western Balkans, from the EU and NATO perspective, as well as from the perspective of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
On behalf of the organizers, the Foundation of the Society of Shared Values, Zlatko Lagumdžija opened the event. He indicated that neither the European Union nor the Western Balkans have a chance to continue to strengthen and integrate if human rights, from which all other collective rights derive, and not vice versa, are not valuable, declarative and institutional life foundation of the largest peace project in history - the EU creation.
“I am convinced that the whole Euro-Atlantic area has an interest in making the Western Balkans an integral part of it, and no less than the interest of the Balkans itself to be an integral part of the EU and NATO,” said Lagumdžija.
The President of the Jewish Community in BiH, Jacob Finci, said that BiH is one country that has two entities, three constituent peoples, four traditional religions and one hundred problems.
According to him, there is no magic wand that can solve all 100 problems, but it is obvious that one of these problems is the inequality of BiH citizens, "which we can hardly accept because it is important for us that the constituent peoples are equal in everything even though they aren’t".
“We have citizens’ inequality, we have citizens of three categories. The first category is an eligible candidate, who can be elected everywhere, because they are members of constituent peoples. The second category are citizens who are members of constituent peoples but do not live in the right territory and thus do not have all the rights. The third category is those called by the Dayton Constitution "Others", who have no right no matter where they live and how they live and how they behave, not to be candidates, let alone to be elected,” said Finci.
He thinks the big problem for BiH is that when we talk about human rights, we are replacing theses and "we mean national rights under human rights, and human rights refer to people, to individuals, to man."
He noted that on December 22 it will be 10 years after the verdict of Sejdić and Finci was passed.
“When I wrote this application, I was sure that the solution would be positive in my favor, but I could not think that it would not be implemented 10 years after the verdict was rendered,” Finci stated.
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