Turkey will export medical equipment to Bosnia and Herzegovina and help the country fight against COVID-19, Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan told Serb member of the tripartite Presidency Milorad Dodik in a phone call on Thursday evening, the SRNA news agency reported.

The offer came after the European Union imposed a ban on exporting of such equipment to non-EU countries.

Meanwhile, Security Minister Fahrudin Radoncic raised the issue with EU Special Representative Johann Sattler earlier the day.

Radoncic and the leaders of three ruling parties in the country, Bakir Izetbegovic, Dragan Covic and Milorad Dodik, who is also a Presidency member, spoke to Sattler at his residency in Sarajevo.

They asked him to do all he can to secure a corridor for the flow goods coming into Bosnia and Herzegovina from the EU and to push for the EU ban on pharmaceuticals exports to be abolished.