The reason why the Constitutional Court took its employees to vaccinate them in Serbia was because Bosnia lacks the vaccines against coronavirus and will lack them for the time being, Bosnia Constitutional Court President Zlatko Knezevic told N1, explaining that they just took the offer of their colleagues from Serbia.

Bosnia's Constitutional Court issued a statement on Tuesday, saying that this institution made it possible for its employees to be inoculated in Serbia, thanks to cooperation with and support of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Serbia, Serbian Foreign Ministry, the Embassy of Serbia to BiH and the Serbian Health Ministry.

The information that came at the moment when Bosnia is still awaiting the first deliveries of Covid-19 vaccines and the start of mass immunisation has sparked negative comments in the public, but Knezevic disagreed that they did something bad.

“Our communication lasted for three weeks and we decided to go,” said Knezevic.

Asked why they did not wait for the vaccination to start in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Court President responded:

“I do not understand the question. If there is something good that can be done, why wait?”.

He added that he did not breach any moral or professional codes, and that all he did was protecting the Court's employees.

Knezevic confirmed that some employees also took their family members to Serbia, explaining that they had a total of 90 vaccines available – which equals the number of the Court's employees, but as some of them gave up the others were allowed to take family members and use the available doses.

“I thought it would be better to use them because the main reason for agreement on vaccination was the functioning of the court,” he added briefly.

Serbian Foreign Minister Nikola Selakovic also commented on the matter, saying that there was “nothing disputable” about it.

“We were addressed by an institution with a plea to get vaccines i.e. to protect its employees. They did not address us directly but through our embassy in Sarajevo and the Constitutional Court of Serbia, its contact,” Selakovic explained.

“As far as I know there were people of different religious and ethnic affiliations, we make no difference between them,” he added.