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SARAJEVO, March 2 (FENA) - Speaker of the House of Peoples of the Parliamentary Assembly of Bosnia and Herzegovina and leader of the Party of Democratic Action (SDA) Bakir Izetbegović explained that the amendments to the two laws considered by the House of Peoples today should facilitate vaccine procurement.
At today's session, the House of Peoples rejected the amendments to the Law on Public Procurement and the Law on Medicines and Medical Devices because there was not enough support for them from the Republika Srpska.
Four delegates of the Serb Caucus from the Alliance of Independent Social Democrats (SNSD) voted against, while the fifth delegate abstained, which is why the amendments to the two legal solutions will be sent to the House Collegium for harmonization.
The House of Representatives previously supported the changes to those two legal solutions, and Izetbegović assessed that the representatives of the SNSD voted in one way in the House of Representatives, and in the House of Peoples of the Parliament of BiH in another.
“We had a chance to facilitate the procurement of vaccines and to provide greater security and relax the situation for those who make purchases in relation to competencies and deadlines. I cannot say that it is clear to me why the representatives of the SNSD did that today and stopped such a thing,” said Izetbegović.
According to Izetbegović, the procedures are complicated anyway, and there is also dissatisfaction of the citizens due to non-vaccination, saying that no one needed this today.
He reiterated that the goal was to relax things so that when someone gets involved in public procurement procedures, they will not be held accountable in court because they did some things.
He is of the opinion that it is necessary to specify these things more clearly and to enable the procurement to be carried out according to the shortened deadlines and to know clear competencies in order not to enter the zone that is illegal.
When asked what will happen now and when the harmonization in the House Collegium and the entire process could be completed, Izetbegović said that there is a theoretical possibility to complete the harmonization in the House, but with the views expressed by SNSD today, he is of the opinion that it will not happen.
Today, the President of the Republic of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić, handed over to Bosnia and Herzegovina 10,000 AstraZeneca vaccines made in India, which are enough to immunize 5,000 people, and Izetbegović said that it would not change much, but he believes that it is a welcome gesture of Vučić's goodwill.
“Vučić's act is essentially a return of service. I see this beautiful and symbolic gesture as a reciprocal gesture to what BiH did a few months ago in Sandžak when our doctors went to help because the Serbian health care system was burdened,” Izetbegović emphasized.
He expressed hope that other difficult issues that burden the relations between the two countries would be resolved.
(FENA) L. N.
