a few seconds agoVolin is not allowed to fly over Bosnia and Herzegovina
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(2 years ago)Authorities in Bosnia and Herzegovina did not give permission to Serbia's deputy prime minister, Aleksandar Vulin, to fly by helicopter to Pale, near Sarajevo, the government of Serbia announced. Volin was to attend a festival in this municipality, known as Velika Gospojina, and to place flowers in Republika Srpska Square for Serb fighters [...]
Volin was to attend a festival in this municipality, known as Velika Gospojina, and to place flowers in Republika Srpska Square for Serb fighters who died in the 1990s war.
“Even though the cabinet of Serbia's deputy prime minister, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Embassy of Serbia have delivered all necessary information and supporting documents, and have even stated the purpose of the visit, the authorities in the Federation, with their silence and disobedience, have not granted consent to flight”, it is said in the communique broadcasting Radio Free Europe's Balkan Service.
The report also says that the Serbian Embassy has respected all the required procedures, but, despite that, authorities in Bosnia and Herzegovina have not responded to the request.
Until the release of this news, authorities in Bosnia and Herzegovina were not declared in this case.
Vulin, however, arrived at the ceremony in Pale, but in the official car, the Serbian news agency Beta reported.
Volin was not given permission to fly to Bosnia and Herzegovina either on August 5th, when he had to participate in the opening of an exhibition dedicated to Serbs in World War II in Prebillovci a village in southern Bosnia.
As Bosnia and Herzegovina Foreign Affairs Minister Ellmedin Konakoviq explained at the time, Volin has not been granted permission to reach Bosnia by helicopter, as demand has arrived too late and that he did not want to violate the procedures, since he is a person, who “undermines Bosnia and Herzegovina's territorial integrity and sovereignty every day”.
After that event, Serbia sent a protest note to Bosnia and Herzegovina's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, praising that such a decision “is not in the spirit of good neighbourly relations”.
The seal arrived at the showing in Prebillovci the next day.
Official Belgrade rhetoric and Sarajevo has been roughed up in recent months.
One of the reasons was the lobby of authorities in Belgrade against adopting a UN resolution on genocide in Srebrenica.
On May 23rd, the UN General Assembly approved Resolution, which declared July 11th International Day of the Genocide Memorial in Srebrenica. /rel
