After the BiH government held a session on April 19, the country’s Finance Minister Zoran Tegeltija and the Minister of Foreign Trade and Economic Relations Stasa Kosarac expressly requested that two, for them, important items be included on the agenda of the next session, otherwise, the Serb ministers in the Government will not attend it. N1 has learned that their request has already been granted.

Namely, Tegeltija and Kosarac requested that the Thursday session includes the Draft of the basis for conducting negotiations in order to conclude the Agreement between Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Republic of Serbia on the construction of the New Eastern gas pipeline interconnection on the borderline Serbia-BiH-Bijeljina-Banja Luka-Prijedor-Novi Grad, as well as the Draft of the basis for conducting negotiations for the conclusion of the Agreement between BiH and the Republic of Croatia on the construction of the gas pipeline “Southern Interconnection of BiH and the Republic of Croatia” on the line Zagvozd-Posusje-Novi Travnik / Travnik with a section that separates and heads towards Mostar; and the Proposal for a decision on the quality of liquid petroleum fuels.

According to the facsimile which is in N1's possession, it is clear that these two items will be discussed at the Thursday session, and their proponent is the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Relations of BiH.

Also, the Council of Ministers Chair, Borjana Kristo, was asked to immediately determine the date of the next session at the previous one, and this was one of the conditions for Serb ministers to attend it.

Bosnia is currently dependent on the supply of Russian gas, and the country’s only connection is at Zvornik. Gas arrives in BiH via the Turkish Stream from Russia via Turkey, Bulgaria and Serbia.

It is important to note that the Southern interconnection would connect BiH with Croatia and through it with the European Union, however, no progress has yet been made when it comes to that project.

Srna news agency wrote earlier that Kosarac insisted that the issue be considered a priority, stressing that “it is justified to ask the question whether certain political structures from the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina (FBiH) entity, perhaps at the behest of the West, were given the task of slowing down this process.”

Also, Kosarac claims that BiH can play the role of coordinator in energy projects because he believes that energy is within the jurisdiction of the country’s entities, although his insistence that the Council of Ministers consider signing an intergovernmental agreement with the Republic of Serbia on a new gas pipeline through which Russian gas would reach BiH and which would exclusively serve the RS’ interests, shows that he still knows that entities do not have the authority to sign any agreements between the two states.