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Radončić: There have been political differences in relation to strategic issues

FENA Aida Kovač

SARAJEVO, June 2 (FENA) - Minister of Security of Bosnia and Herzegovina Fahrudin Radončić confirmed at a press conference in Sarajevo today that he will resign from the position of Minister of Security in the Council of Ministers of BiH.

He said that the reasons were of a completely principled nature, and that "there are no tensions, anxiety and controversy".

“First of all, I would like to thank the Party of Democratic Action for enabling both me and SBB to be in that parliamentary majority and in the Council of Ministers of BiH,” said Minister Radončić.

However, he added, which is completely politically legitimate, there have been political differences over some strategic issues within BiH.

“I asked to solve the migrant crisis by legal deportations and that I mentioned here that we have a problem with Pakistan and its Excellency in Sarajevo, which does not want to help us legitimize more than nine and a half thousand illegal migrants who are a huge security risk. We had a situation when Chairman of the Presidency of BiH, Šefik Džaferović, and even Minister of Foreign Affairs, Bisera Turković, received that ambassador, they distanced themselves from me as the Minister of Security and my plan,” said Radončić.

He added that in any normal country, every security minister would then resign because the chairman, i.e. the head of state, "stands on the side of an ambassador, without even hearing the arguments of the BiH Ministry of Security."

He said then that he would withdraw from the BiH Council of Ministers.

He explains that he did not withdraw then because he was waiting for two things – the pandemic to end and for the BiH Ministry of Security to get its deputy, in order to avoid discontinuity.

“Another reason for this act is a strategic disagreement regarding the "Ventilators" affair. I was politically sacrificed, I had a political trial, I strongly hold that everyone is innocent until proven guilty in court. But I think that one brutal theft of 10.5 million KM should have its legal epilogue. I am not the one who thinks that Mr. Novalić is guilty, but in principle, as the Minister of Security, I cannot accept the option of threatening the entire BiH judiciary,” stated Radončić.

He stated that the third thing, which is also very important, is that "relations in the ruling coalition are not such that I estimate that there will be a relaxation of relations and that the BiH Council of Ministers will be able to give the results that citizens expect."

“Citizens expect results, and the Council of Ministers is a hostage of the SDA-HDZ-SNSD relations. Today will be a session of the BiH Council of Ministers. As soon as it is over, I will resign irrevocably and from that moment I am no longer a minister,” Radončić explained.

Answering a journalist's question, he said that this is not a pre-election move.

“This is a move that is normal in all European countries and the world. If you have a strategic difference with your coalition partner, it is completely correct to go out and say I do not agree with that. I do not see any reason why Bosniak from the SDA should not be appointed on the position of a minister at the first session of the House of Representatives of the Parliamentary Assembly of Bosnia and Herzegovina,” said Radončić.

(FENA) A. B.

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