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SARAJEVO, October 21 (FENA) - Member of the House of Representatives of the BiH Parliamentary Assembly Damir Arnaut asked for answers from the BiH Council of Ministers Chairman Zoran Tegeltija and Foreign Minister Bisera Turković as to why no country in the world has abolished visas for almost two years for the citizens of BiH, holders of ordinary travel documents.
Arnaut also asked why the ruling coalition agrees to the humiliating and discriminatory treatment by some Middle Eastern and South American countries, which require visas for BiH citizens, but not for citizens of almost all other European countries, including many non-EU countries.
Arnaut cited the examples of the United Arab Emirates, Oman, Qatar, Lebanon, Kuwait and Egypt, where citizens of neighboring Serbia can travel without visas, while visas are necessary for our citizens.
"The situation is similar with three countries in South America - Argentina, Peru and Uruguay - which do not have a visa regime for Serbia, but have a visa regime for Bosnia and Herzegovina," stressed Arnaut.
"It is incomprehensible that citizens of all three mentioned South American and five Middle Eastern countries can travel to Bosnia and Herzegovina without visas, although our citizens are exposed to enormous costs of obtaining their visas because only two of those eight countries have embassies in Sarajevo," underlined Arnaut.
He also emphasized that, when we add Saudi Arabia, whose holders of diplomatic passports can enter Bosnia and Herzegovina without visas, and this is not reciprocally applied to our officials, "there is a lack of reciprocity in as many as nine of the eleven cases mentioned."
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