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SARAJEVO, March 30 (FENA) - The final decision on the Sarajevo-Belgrade motorway construction will be made in mid this year when Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan visits Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Turkey's position on the Election Law of BiH is that it is an internal issue of each state, while in connection to activation of Membership Action Plan with NATO for BiH, Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said that the Russian Federation perhaps wants to postpone the activation of MAP for BiH.
As the Turkish Prime Minister said at the press conference in Sarajevo, during the aforementioned visit of the Turkish President to BiH, we will have a clearer picture of the details for the motorway and the final decision on the model for the construction should be reached.
“We will establish a financial framework for this project, the way in which we will find the financial sources for it and see whether it will be a project on the principle "build, utilize, handover" or some other way in which Turkey would provide support to this project,” said Yildirim.
Commenting on BiH membership in NATO, activation of the Membership Action Plan (MAP) for BiH and Russia's influence in that respect, he said that NATO is a special kind of organization, and Russia is a special kind of power.
He also said that the Russian Federation claims that the activation of the MAP for BiH would cause instability because of the Serb side in BiH, and in connection to the elections that will be held in October this year.
“The Russian Federation perhaps wants to postpone the adoption of the MAP for BiH, but the country and its people have already made a decision on the issue. We see efforts that BiH is investing in acquiring membership in NATO,” said Turkish Prime Minister and reiterated that Turkey will continue to support BiH's aspiration to become NATO member state.
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