The Council of Ministers did not adopt a decision to declare July 11, 2020, the 25th anniversary of the 1995 Srebrenica Genocide, a day of mourning because its Thursday session failed after ministers from Bosnia’s Croat Democratic Union (HDZ BiH) did not vote for the entire agenda, Bosnia’s Foreign Affairs Ministry said.
The Ministry’s statement said that Foreign Affairs Minister and Deputy Council of Ministers Chairman, Bisera Turkovic, requested the decision to be discussed in an extraordinary phone session in order to continue the practice of “honouring the victims and the families of those who died in the genocide in Srebrenica.”
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However, the Chairman of the Council of Ministers, Zoran Tegeltija, was opposed to it, the Ministry said.
“The Chairman of the Council of Ministers of Bosnia and Herzegovina, who is the only one who has the competencies for convening both regular and extraordinary sessions of the Council of Ministers, did not agree in the given circumstances to make the necessary decision to hold a telephone session and vote on the proposed agenda,”it said.
The Foreign Affairs Ministry also said that it has instructed all diplomatic and consular representative offices in foreign countries to mark July 11 by flying the Bosnian flag at half-mast.
