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SARAJEVO, June 11 (FENA) - Member of the BiH Presidency Šefik Džaferović, said for the press that the Presidency at today’s emergency session on the issue of migrant crisis that no decision was adopted since they were not supported by the BiH Presidency Chairman Milorad Dodik.
“As an initiator of the session, the BiH, the Presidency member Željko Komšić proposed three conclusions. One concerns the engagement of the BiH Armed Forces in protecting the border of Bosnia and Herzegovina from illegal migration. In this regard, the Presidency reached no consensus. Komšić and I voted in favor of such a decision, but Dodik voted agains, "said Džaferović.
The second conclusion was on the request to hold an extraordinary session of the Council of Ministers of BiH with a proposal of comprehensive measures concerning the migrant crisis.
“The third conclusion was a request for an international agreement with the European Agency for Border and Coast Guard FONTEX, which Dodik also did not support,” said Džaferović, adding that the procedure is such that this agreement will be at the next session, and if it is not supported, then the institute of the vital national interest will be activated. The same applies to the request for the extraordinary session of the Council of Ministers of BiH.
He emphasized that Dodik proposed a conclusion requesting that the competent entity institutions and the state border police coordinate activities in the protection of the BiH border.
“Komšić and Dodik supported it, but I had reservations about it due to certain formulations. I hope that by the next session we will find a common ground when the formulation and the sequence of things are in question,” said Džaferović.
Speaking about his position, he said that BiH must protect the border from illegal migrants and that it is not right for only three cantons, with a special emphasis on the Una-Sana Canton, to carry the burden of this crisis. In this regard, he proposed that the migrants be distributed throughout the territory of BiH, but Dodik dismissed the proposal.
Džaferović underlined that the migrants must be treated as human beings and that they must respect the laws of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The BiH Presidency Chairman Milorad Dodik also addressed the journalists, saying that he did not accept the initiative to deploy members of the Armed Forces of BiH along the border of Bosnia and Herzegovina to protect the border from illegal migrants.
“I rejected this decision because it cannot be adopted. The armed forces do not have this jurisdiction. I asked for such a measure a year ago. It was not supported then and I had to come to terms with it,” said Dodik, who, as a member of the Presidency of BiH, said he could not accept that the armed forces are deployed on the borders with Serbia and Montenegro.
He did not accept the arrival of Frontex considering it “a masochistic decision because the migrants would then stay in BiH.”
“I was outvoted on the issue of Frontex. The procedure says that these proposals can be returned into a regular procedure. I can then call upon the protection of vital national interest,” Dodik said.
He stressed that RS has its position that has not changed concerning the idea to distribute the migrant accommodation centers throughout BiH.
“RS should not be a collateral damage in this respect. The Presidency has recommended that the Border Police and the entity MoIs make a coordinated plan. Džaferović abstained. If you ask me when the next session will be held, I do not know, " said Dodik.
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