The Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina (FBiH) entity House of Peoples adopted the Draft Law on the Rights of Veterans and Members of their Families in the form adopted by the FBiH Government. Following the adoption, the extraordinary session immediately ended and the veterans' protest ended, N1’s Boris Brezo said.
This session was scheduled outside the regular session originally scheduled for Thursday because the regular session had other items on the agenda which took too much time and attention from the main item of the day – the said Draft Law.
The extraordinary session had only one agenda item, the Draft Law on Veterans’ Rights. N1’s Brezo also said the House of Peoples did not adopt the amendments adopted by the House of Representatives, which the FBiH Government also rejected. This now means the two houses will have to align the adopted versions of the Law.
Following the news of the adoption of the said Law, the veterans protesting in front of the Parliament building went home, marking the end of the protest.
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Prior to the scheduled beginning of the regular session, several hundred veterans of the Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Croat Defence Council gathered in Sarajevo, in front of the Parliament building pressuring the MPs to adopt the Draft Law and fulfil their demands.
Their demands are the publication of the single veterans’ registry, the abolition of the financing of veterans’ associations, and to have a veterans’ allowance.
