Erdogan Offers Vucinqi 3 billion euros for Highway

Bosnian Serbs oppose the Sarajevo-Belgrade highway construction plans Turkey is ready to offer 3 billion euros.

Bosnian Minister of Communications and Transport Ismir Jusko is expected to visit Ankara soon, to see what its conditions are in exchange for such financing, however, Republika Srpska has made it clear that it will not support the agreement.

Yusko says that a letter on the purposes of the two countries was signed on May 20th, and again Bosnia and Serbia have not yet decided on how the road work will go, which must connect the capitals of both countries.

His Republika Srpska counterpart, Nedjo Trnicic, insists that Bosnian institutions have no jurisdiction over the issue and that both entities in the country, Republika Srpska and the Bosniak-Croat Federation, must agree to this highway.
The “Lerra signed by Turkey and Bosnia has no value if no agreement is reached even with Republika Srpska”, Trncic claims.

Experts think Bosnian Serbs' negative response to the financial pact with Turkey is politically motivated and plagued by lack of expertise. Turkey's president Erdogan made January of this year after a meeting he had in Istanbul with Bosnian Presidency member Bakir Izetbegovic and Serbian head of state Aleksandar Vucic