Covic: Everything will be solved exclusively in Sarajevo

Dragan Čović, BiH Presidency Chairman, met with Jean-Claude Juncker, President of the European Commission, on February 2 in Brussels - he revealed details of his talks with other European representatives.

Dragan Čović said today that he is glad to meet with European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker in Brussels today. Covic confirmed that Juncker will visit BiH in the end of February.

"I am pleased that we had a chance to talk to Mr. Juncker and his associates. The primary situation was the situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina, in preparation for his arrival in Bosnia and Herzegovina at the end of this month.

We discussed several topics, the political situation in the function of the forthcoming elections, the need to change the electoral legislation, the completion of the Questionnaire, the reform activity, our satus when it comes to the EU, given that we will soon receive part of the European strategy when it comes to our area " .

He pointed out that Juncker wanted to brief about what he expected in BiH.

"By coming here and the activities that we did in BiH by adopting budgets, the law on excises, rural development and some other reform activities, we have corrected this state of affairs. I wanted to brief him about what he expected when he came to 28. And what he would love to happen in the next 20 days, "he added.

"We agreed to hand him over to the Questionnaire when he came to Sarajevo. This would be the last condition at this stage to end the candidate status. On the other hand, by then, we will assess progress and political readiness when it comes to changing the electoral law and the way of election of members of the Presidency, the House of Peoples - where today we have different political attitudes ", Covic said.

The conversation, Covic said, was warmly welcomed.

We have tried all the deadlines when it comes to answering the Questionnaire. Will this issue be resolved?

"Yesterday, when we talked with Ms. Mogherini, she insisted that we tell her hour, day, week, she even said," Dragane will tomorrow be the Questioner, I will come after him. "We were a little joking about this topic.

He is now real at the end and it is difficult for me to speak from this position of a member of the Presidency when this will be done. I think we made all the prerequisites to finish it in the next seven days. We will, it's in the hands of those who are in charge of it. That's in the hands of the Council of Ministers, and I hope there is no reason not to hand it over to Mr. Juncker. "

The election law was one of the main topics of discussion.

"Of course we talked a lot, I explained why we have to solve the issue of legitimate representation in the package when it comes to the Presidency and the House of Peoples. We have elections for four levels of government, we want to ensure that elections can be conducted, that we have no problems and that we have no problems in implementation of election results ".

According to Dragan Čović, Juncker was well briefed about everything.

"We did not talk about details, we will detail about the next week - together with experts from international institutions, we can not change the constitution, but we can electoral law." After the next elections, we can make radical inquiries, the Sejdic-Finci judgment and the Strasbourg verdicts. do the minimum we can do for these three months. "

Bakir Izetbegovic said that Dragan Covic is trying to put the election of members of the Presidency on the agenda, that it was not a topic - it was only talked about members of the House of Peoples. Is that true?

"It's nonsense. We agreed with Mr. Daul not to go public with details. In order to give affirmative statements, in order to give a chance to talk with partners from the international community in the coming weeks, in order to give the right solution.

And to say that somebody is trying to make something nonsense. It does not correspond to reality, absolutely - of course, I will never accept the possibility of entering into elections with a law that will not ensure the legitimate choice of representatives of the Croatian people. That must be clear. "

And in the past days, have we heard criticism that the internal issue of BiH is being resolved in Brussels?

"We absolutely agree, so we did not talk about details with anyone, we talked about principles." Mogherini yesterday, Juncker told us precisely that no one will force us to make decisions, that we have to reach an agreement, and we will get a report quickly, that's why Mr. Juncker and coming. "

Dragan Covic is convinced that BiH will get more positive views, so Juncker is coming to Sarajevo.

"You are right, everything will be solved exclusively in Sarajevo, and not in Istanbul, Ankara or I do not know any other destination," Dragan Covic said.

• 2 Feb, 2018
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