News in English     | 17.09.2020. 18:36 |

Komšić: Pupils' right to use their own language will go before Strasbourg court

FENA Hana Imamović

SARAJEVO, September 17 (FENA) - Member of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina Željko Komšić confirmed to journalists in Sarajevo today that the discussion on the Reform Program was postponed because the entire content has not been rounded up and the Council of Ministers was instructed to do so within 30 days.

Also, the so-called "Mini Schengen" was discussed when the BiH Presidency member Milorad Dodik asked BiH to immediately accept the idea and join it, but a conclusion was adopted asking for clarification of what the initiative entails, but it was welcomed.

The Council of Ministers, Komšić added, was instructed to do an analysis using known methodologies and how it corresponds with other initiatives that exist for the purpose of connecting the region.

After the regular session at which these topics were discussed, two extraordinary sessions followed, at which the relocation of the BiH Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem was discussed, and the second extraordinary session was on the issue of the recognition of Kosovo.

Komšić asked that the relocation of the Embassy not be discussed because it is contrary to the UN resolution that defines Jerusalem in the context of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that has lasted for decades.

"BiH would therefore suffer consequences primarily at the international level," Komić underlined, but after the vote, such a proposal by the BiH Presidency member Milorad Dodik was rejected.

"On the one hand, you are referring to what the President of Serbia Aleksandar Vučić and the Prime Minister of Kosovo Avdulah Hoti have agreed, and on the other hand, you do not want to implement what inherently comes from their agreement in relation to the entire region, regarding the recognition of Kosovo. Dodik rejected that," Komšić explained.

He believes that Dodik will ask for a special session of the National Assembly of the entity of Republika Srpska, probably presenting those already known positions, where Kosovo and BiH are connected, i.e., the status of the entity of RS and Kosovo, which for Komšić is "out of the question and a risky story that can escalate into a story of secession in BiH, and we all know where that road would lead".

Asked by reporters if he had talked to Dodik about the problem of Bosniak pupils in the RS and their right to a national group of subjects and their mother language to be registered in their school documents, Komšić said he thought it could be resolved in a humane way, but Dodik's response was "we, in our Serbian language, call the Bosnian language the Bosniak language and that is it."

He announced that they will now start resolving that issue through legal means. They have found a modality and who will legally represent the parents without any compensation in order to address the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg. 

"Arguing after what he had said about the Bosnian language would just be futile, I guess we do not want to be humiliated any further. Okay, that is politics, but if we are to be afraid of that politics, then we do not deserve to sit here," concluded Komšić.

(FENA) S. R.

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