British spies are not coming to Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Republika Srpska (RS) is not in the jeopardy of Bosniaks, Croats, the British or the USA, said Chairman of Bosnia and Herzegovina's Council of Ministers (CoM) Denis Zvizdic.
Zvizdic commented on the statements by the President of the RS, Bosnia's Serb-dominated entity, Milorad Dodik, who has been accusing the UK on several occasions in recent days of sending soldiers to Bosnia to destabilize the RS. He also said the UK intelligence services were spying on the RS leadership.
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“Of course the spies are not coming. Dodik's continuous repeating about Serbs’ constantly being in jeopardy of Bosniaks, Croats, the British and the USA is a nonsense,” said Zvizdic, adding there was no point in responding to Dodik's words on daily basis.
Commenting the economic situation and reforms, Zvizdic noted that “parameters of independent individuals and the international institutions speak of that” and that Bosnia was “among the leading countries of the Western Balkans in development.”
“The data used by the international financial institutions are accurate. At the end of 2017 and the beginning of 2018 the unemployment rate was 30.5 percent and now it reduced to 19 percent. Of course, we cannot speak about the exact number of the employed. We are talking about dozens of thousand of the employed. However, I am not satisfied with the economic parameters, especially with the number of the employed and the departure of the young people. But Bosnia is not the only one affected by their departure,” concluded Zvizdic.
The CoM Chairman also spoke of the current situation with migrants, who have been using Bosnia as a route to their final destinations in the western Europe.
“Migrants don't want to stay in Bosnia. They want to go to the European Union. We must act in line with the international standards. The issue of security matters to us, but also the issue of humane treatment of migrants. We are coordinating the whole situation,” stressed Zvizdic.
He also said that Bosnia will not become a collective centre for migrants. “If the EU decides to become a dead-end street for migrants, of course, Bosnia will not be a collective centre,” added Zvizdic.
