Monuments of gratitude for Mohamad bin Mahathir, the former Prime Minister of Malaysia, and Madeleine Albright, the former US Secretary of State, were ceremoniously unveiled today in Alipašina Street (Kemal Monteno Park).
The monuments were unveiled by former members of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina (1992-1996) Ejup Ganić, Mirko Pejanović and Stjepan Kljuić, in the presence of the outgoing Mayor of Centar, Mr. Nedžad Ajnadžić.
Led by the Mahathir, Malaysia has provided exceptional assistance and support in the most difficult days for Bosnia and Herzegovina, as well as in the later period of reconstruction and recovery.
The newly discovered monuments thus joined their predecessors in the Alley of Foreign Statesmen (Paddy Ashdown, Alois Mock, Tadeusz Mazowiecki).
The author of the monuments is the famous academic sculptor Enes Sivac. Peace pigeons were sculpted at the top of the monument as both statesmen are still active on the world stage.

The author of the monuments is the famous academic sculptor Enes Sivac

The monuments were unveiled by  Ejup Ganić, Mirko Pejanović, Stjepan Kljuić and Nedžad Ajnadžić.

Madeleine Albright and Mahathir bin Mohamad received monuments in Sarajevo

Pope Francis expressed his desire to visit crisis-hit Lebanon and urged political leaders in South Sudan to continue working for peace in Christmas Eve messages.
Lebanon was plunged into its worst economic crisis in decades by the devastating port blast in Beirut in August.
In a message to cardinal Bechara Rai, the patriarch of the Maronite Church, the 84-year-old pontiff said Thursday he hoped to visit Lebanon "as soon as possible".
-Beloved sons and daughters of Lebanon, I am deeply troubled to see the suffering and anguish that has sapped the native resilience and resourcefulness of the Land of the Cedars- he said. 
He appealed to Lebanon's leaders "to seek the best interest of the public" and for the international community to "help Lebanon to surmount this grave crisis and resume a normal existence". 
In a separate joint statement, the pope and Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby, the spirital leaders more than 1.3 billion Christians, also repeated their desire to visit South Sudan "in due course, as things return to normalcy".
-We have been glad to see the small progress you have made, but know it is not enough for your people to feel the full effect of peace- they said in an address to the political leaders of the conflict-ravaged eastern African nation.
South Sudan is struggling to emerge from a six-year civil war that claimed some 380,000 lives and officially ended with the creation of a government of national unity in February.&nbsp;

Pope Francis expressed his desire to visit crisis-hit Lebanon

In a message to cardinal Bechara Rai, the patriarch of the Maronite Church, the 84-year-old pontiff said Thursday he hoped to visit Lebanon "as soon as possible"

Pope offers Christmas messages for Lebanon, S. Sudan

Bosnia and Herzegovina was rocked by a scandal yesterday when the Federal Police Administration (FPA) arrested four Bihać police officers for having sex with a 15-year-old girl.

Due to the sensitivity of the case, experienced FPA investigators, in cooperation with the USC Prosecutor's Office, approached the investigation carefully and collected a lot of facts that cover the basis of suspicion in this torturous crime. Members of the Ministry of the Interior of the Una-Sana Canton are charged with the criminal offense of sexual intercourse with an incapacitated person.
- Considering that this is a very complex and sensitive case, all information related to it will be provided by the Prosecutor's Office of Una-Sana Canton, under whose supervision the investigation in question was conducted. Assistance during the activities to the members of the Federal Police Administration was provided by the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the USC - it was announced from the Federal Police Administration.
The girl was examined at the Bihać hospital, where the injuries were found. The Center for Social Work in Bihać was also informed about everything, and it took certain measures to protect the girl and return to normal life.

- The suspects will be handed over to the acting prosecutor today, who will decide on further measures and actions in a specific case - said the USC Prosecutor's Office.
So far, the initials of the arrested police officers have not been revealed, and the case was allegedly reported by the girl's family. The case reportedly happened in a cottage, where police officers took the girl and sexually abused her.

We learn that this case, apart from the residents of Krajina and Bihać, where the arrested police officers worked, also shocked the members of the Ministry of the Interior USC , who were surprised by this information.
Allegedly, these four were previously under special measures precisely because of dishonorable actions.

Members of the Ministry of the Interior of the Una-Sana Canton are charged with the criminal offense of sexual intercourse with an incapacitated person

Members of the Federal Police Administration: Arrest on the orders of the Prosecution

The police were torturing the girl in the cottage

The President of the Party of Democratic Action, Bakir Izetbegović, has demonstrated political inconsistency on several occasions in recent years, on some of the most important issues for the people and the state.
It is not uncommon for politicians not to keep their word, but only a basic analysis of media appearances shows that Izetbegović proved to be a "champion" in that discipline.

The most recent example is the "Zvizdić" case, in which Izetbegović threatened his party colleague that he would see his real face because he directed public criticism at him, and then only a few days later stated: "I am never in favor of respectable and capable people to leave the SDA and it is a wrong approach that the SDA is planning something against Zvizdić.” But this is perhaps the mildest example, and we will list only a part of the similar ones.
When it comes to the phenomenon of "said and denied" and problems with facts for Izetbegović, for Bosnia and Herzegovina, its reputation and citizens, it was especially disastrous when, when he as a member of the Presidency, on February 17th, 2017, in the Sarajevo City Hall organized a "Conference on the verdict of B&amp;H against Serbia", taking advantage of the presence of prominent people and deliberately misleading them, where he triumphantly announced that B&amp;H, through its agent who still has a mandate, will initiate a revision of the lawsuit against Serbia for genocide.
However, on March 9th, the International Court of Justice in The Hague rejected the request for a revision of the lawsuit, which caused an unprecedented international and domestic disgrace to Bosnia and Herzegovina. To make matters worse, it was revealed that the Tribunal informed Sakib Softić in May last year that it did not consider him an agent of B&amp;H, which Izetbegović and his associates knowingly kept silent about. Due to the whole case, the Prosecutor's Office of B&amp;H opened a case against Izetbegović in August of the same year.
At the beginning of last year, Izetbegović announced that he would file an appeal to the B&amp;H Constitutional Court for the abolition of the RS name in six months if "the situation does not improve". There is nothing of that yet, and it is hard to say that the situation has improved.
- We will leave a certain deadline and give a chance for relations to improve. Relations towards B&amp;H, according to its constitution, territorial integrity, according to the laws we passed together (...), towards Bosniaks, towards Croats, towards returnees - Izetbegović said in February last year.
Of course, although information is widely circulating in the city that he spent the war period in the vault of the Central Bank in B&amp;H, Izetbegović is also creative when it comes to interpreting his war role, so someone coldly told the Turkish screenwriters of the "Alija" series that he was wounded in the war, which ultimately found itself as a scene in the series, causing hilarious laughter and disbelief among B&amp;H citizens who were instructed in Izetbegović's war role. In his public appearances, Izetbegović Jr did not even consider his own father, so in an interview for the Muslim television Igman, which he gave on May 23rd this year, he presented himself as a greater war leader than his own father.

Izetbegović also untruely presented the real value of his villa in Poljine, which has a swimming pool and is guarded by the police, and it was especially comical for the citizens of B&amp;H when, in an interview for N1 on September 9th this year, he said that he knew very well life in material poverty, corroborating this by stating that in six months he "lived on eight thousand marks." And when it comes to SBB leader Fahrudin Radončić, Izetbegović swore in front of the public that he had nothing to do with the arrest or the attacks on Radončić.
However, his former party colleague Aljoša Čampara in an interview given at the end of October this year revealed that Izetbegović was behind the instructions that he should deal with Radončić, saying that he no longer wanted to be a sword in someone else's hands.
During the trial in Kosovo for drug trafficking against Naser Kelmendi, Izetbegović accused Radončić, among other things, of "betraying B&amp;H" with his testimony, in an interview with "Faktor", published on November 29th, 2020, for an unnecessary trial that was against Radončić, precisely in connection with the trial in Kosovo, claimed that he "caused damage" to the state.

At one time, Izetbegović marked the appointment of Ranko Debevac as the President of the Court of B&amp;H as an anti-Bosniak act and conspiracy, and now he publicly said that he did not trust the Prosecutor's Office of B&amp;H, but that he trusted the Court. Of course, whether Izetbegović told the truth when he first promised to create 100,000 jobs, and later claimed that he fulfilled that promise, we will leave to the citizens to judge for themselves.

Political inconsistency or underestimation of one's own people

Izetbegović: All the lies of the dynastic chief

Everything Bakir said and denied

Radovan Kovačević, advisor to the chairman of the Presidency of B&amp;H Milorad Dodik, said that it was necessary to start from the beginning and explain what it was about when the icon was given to Sergey Lavrov, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation.
- The icon was privately owned by a family from Banja Luka, who had it there for more than 15 years. They wanted the icon to be given to Lavrov - Kovačević stated as a guest in News 1 of RTRS.
Kovačević pointed out that there is also the question of the value of the icon itself.
- Of course, the icon has a sentimental value, and a value based on the fact that it is an Orthodox icon that has been consecrated, but it has no significant material value - Kovačević pointed out.
What is very important, says Kovačević, and what each of the viewers can check, is that such icons can be easily found on the Internet.
- There are a lot of them and their price ranges from 100 to 200 euros - says Kovačević.

They wanted the icon to be given to Lavrov, Kovačević said

Kovačević: The icon, of course, has sentimental value

Dodik's adviser claims: Icon donated to Lavrov has been owned by family from Banja Luka for more than 15 years

Fahrudin Radončić, president of the Alliance for a Better Future, announced himself today on his Instagram profile.
We transfer his status in full:
After I asked Dragan Mektić more precise questions yesterday (about the "drug dealing" of the ISA director's wife, the vices of "little Jasmina", the purchase of her mega apartment and other vices, what about his indictment and the existence of claims that for 4,000 KM he has been working as an ISA associate for years), he transparently escaped from answers and controversy.
In short, in a few lines of illiterate answer, he called me again, which should be offensive and irritating to me, a "migrant" and a man from Gusinje.
Instead of exchanging exposed facts about him and his media and political mentors, we came to the conclusion that a member of the RS genocidal army, a lying politician who flatters Sarajevo and Bosniaks, and at the same time does not recognize the genocide in Srebrenica, in the middle of once occupied and destroyed Sarajevo , which we defended from his army with common martyr's blood, without any shame now divides into suitable and unsuitable Bosniaks.
However, to remind you of that, his army and his SDS party, led by convicted war criminals and butchers Radovan Karadžić and Ratko Mladić, did not divide us at all.
On the contrary, together we, ruthlessly and medievally incensed, were brutally killed, beaten, raped and kept in camps and under occupation.
From a politician who gave warrior and deeply anti-Bosniak statements to the media in RS such as "to live for the day when he will personally arrest son of Alija Izetbegović for war crimes against Serbs" - Mektić, for reasons he hides, turned into a court servant of Osman Mehmedagić and his dynastic boss.
Indeed, I have to ask myself publicly, how am I a migrant for Mektić or Bakir's failed newspaper "Slobodna Bosna", and Sebija Izetbegović, who, just like me, was born in Montenegro, is not?
But this is already a serious intra-Bosniak issue.
There is no place in it for informers, genocide deniers and "adders" of xenophobic balls.

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However, to remind you of that, Mektić's army and his SDS party, led by convicted war criminals and butchers Radovan Karadžić and Ratko Mladić, did not divide us at all

Radončić: Why am I a "migrant" and Sebija is not

This morning, Margret Uebber, Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany in Sarajevo, held a meeting in the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina with members of the Presidency of B&amp;H, Željko Komšić and Šefik Džaferović.
But, for now, it is not known what the topic of this meeting was.
Ambassador Uebber reportedly came to discuss the appointment of a new high representative of the international community in B&amp;H, a man who should replace Valentin Inzko.

According to some media reports, the plan is for Inzko to be replaced with Christian Schmidt as the head of the OHR, and such an initiative comes from Berlin.
So far, no one from the Presidency has confirmed that the topic of conversation was the appointment of a new High Representative.

According to some media reports, the plan is for Inzko to be replaced with Christian Schmidt as the head of the OHR, and such an initiative comes from Berlin

German Ambassador Uebber at a meeting in the Presidency of B&H, whether a new High Representative was discussed

More than 1,200 migrants are currently staying at the "Lipa" camp. After setting on fire four tents yesterday, the situation is further complicating. There are fewer and fewer places, so migrants are building improvised tents around.
Not even a strong wind is in their favor, so many are repairing what can be repaired, aware that they are left without a roof over their heads.
What it looks like in one of the overbooked tents, the "Avaz" team was convinced first hand.

After setting on fire four tents yesterday, the situation is further complicating

"Avaz" in the "Lipa" camp: Chaotic situation in one of the tents

In the "Lipa" camp, about 20 kilometers from the center of Bihać, which was set on fire by migrants yesterday in the hope that they would be allowed to return to the "Bira" camp, a chaotic situation still prevails today.
As the "Avaz" team was convinced on the spot, four tents were completely burnt down.
All that is left is melted and distorted steel constructions of tents and beds. In one of the burning tents, the fire from the wooden floors is still smoldering.
As we find out, since there was moisture and a lot of wet things from the migrants in the tents, it is suspected that they had to use gasoline or another flammable liquid.
It is interesting that all the fires were started in the places where the fuel for the cannons that pumped hot air stood, which indicates that everything was planned.

As workers clear what is left of the camp, hundreds of migrants stand by waiting for what will happen next.
Food is provided for the migrants, so many of them have returned to the camp and are eagerly awaiting their meal.
Food is shared by Red Cross teams.

Hundreds of migrants stand by waiting for what will happen next

Camp "Lipa" the day after the relocation of migrants

Migrants return to the burned camp site "Lipa", the Red Cross distributes food to them

The President of SBB sent congratulations to the Archbishop of Vrhbosna, Cardinal Vinko Puljić, to the Archbishop of Vrhbosna Coadjutor Msgr. Tomo Vukšić, the clergy of the Archdiocese of Vrhbosna and to the Catholics in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Diaspora.
- Dear fellow citizens, I wish you a Merry Christmas from the bottom of my heart, with the desire to celebrate this holiday in peace, health and family happiness together with your loved ones, friends and neighbors. Holidays are always an opportunity for spiritual renewal, building coexistence, mutual respect and esteem. With the most sincere greetings, I once again wish all Catholics in Bosnia and Herzegovina a Merry Christmas - the SBB Press Center announced.

The President of SBB sent congratulations to the Archbishop of Vrhbosna, Cardinal Vinko Puljić, to the Archbishop of Vrhbosna Coadjutor Msgr. Tomo Vukšić, the clergy of the Archdiocese of Vrhbosna and to the Catholics in B&H and Diaspora

Radončić: Holidays are always an opportunity for spiritual renewal

Radončić wished all Catholics a Merry Christmas

Austria allowed its more than 400 ski stations to open on Thursday, just two days before the country enters its third nationwide coronavirus lockdown.
&nbsp;At the beginning of this month the government announced it was allowing ski stations to open on December 24, and has stuck by the decision even after a third lockdown was announced last week.
As an outdoor sport, the government says skiing can be practised safely if sufficient precautions are taken.
However, hotels, bars and restaurants remain closed, effectively limiting the slopes to locals, while the lockdown will also force the country's shops and much of its service industry to close until mid-January.
-This is a first step, and we hope that we can fully open soon -- as soon as the infection rates allow for it- Andreas Steibl, head of tourism for the Ischgl resort, told AFP in a recent interview.
Ishcgl gained infamy as the resort where thousands of international skiers got infected in one of Europe's first, large-scale outbreaks in March.
Like most other ski resorts in Austria, Ischgl draws tens of thousands of people each year.
The skiing industry accounts for close to three percent of Austria's total GDP and is politicially well-connected.

For example, the head of the association of cable car operators also sits as a member of parliament for the governing centre-right People's Party (OeVP) of Chancellor Sebastian Kurz. 
In the western province of Tyrol, skiing is one of the main economic drivers, with six million skiers flocking there each year, roughly eight for every local.
Without tourists, many resorts have said that grooming the slopes and operating the lifts won't be economically viable, and some, like Ischgl, are opting to open only a small section of their network of cable cars and lifts.
After the pandemic cut the last ski season short -- which led to a drop of a million ski tourists in the western province of Tyrol alone -- resorts invested millions of euros in disinfection devices for cable cars, masks for skiers and even apps that help the skiers spread out and avoid crowds.
Ischgl alone says it spent 700,000 euros ($853,000) on Covid-19 safety measures, now boasting its own Covid testing stations and a lab, and monitoring waste water for traces of the virus.
Neighbouring Switzerland has allowed some ski resorts to open, but the industry there has been hard hit by quarantine orders slapped on British visitors, who normally make up a large part of its clientele, as well as a flight ban from the UK.

Andreas Steibl: This is a first step, and we hope that we can fully open soon

Like most other ski resorts in Austria, Ischgl draws tens of thousands of people each year

Austria ski resorts reopen despite looming third lockdown

Romanian MPs on Wednesday approved the country's centre-right, pro-European coalition government headed by ex-banker Florin Citu, who has pledged to overcome the coronavirus crisis and the economic woes it has caused.
In total 260 MPs voted in favour of approving Citu's cabinet, with 186 against.
-My government will have two major objectives: getting over the health crisis and getting the economy back on track- Citu, 48, said in a speech to both houses of parliament.
Romania is one of the poorest countries in the EU and the pandemic has exacted a heavy economic toll.
Its vaccination programme launches on Sunday.
Citu had served as finance minister in the outgoing government and has a degree in economics from the University of Iowa in the United States. 
President Klaus Iohannis tasked him with forming a government on Tuesday after three centre-right parties between them won the most seats in elections earlier this month.
The 20 ministries have been divided up according to electoral strength between Citu's liberal PNL, the reformist USR-Plus and the UDMR which represents Romania's Hungarian minority.
However, the cabinet contains only one woman, who has been given the labour portfolio.
Rights groups immediately condemned the lack of female representation.
In the programme the government published on Wednesday it promised to fight poverty and increase Romanians' purchasing power as well as ensuring "sustainable development based on investment and digitalisation".
It also wants to bring the government deficit under three percent of GDP -- it stood at nine percent in 2020.
Delivering on this commitment will be essential to winning confidence among investors and EU institutions.
However, the government has also promised not to raise taxes.
Citu is also committed to taking Romania into the single currency but has not specified a target date for this.
The government has also promised more investment for Romania's creaking health system, which has come under huge strain while fighting the pandemic.
More than 600,000 infections have been recorded in the country of 19 million, with 14,766 deaths.
The government says it wants to change the fact that Romania "has the lowest health budget in the EU".
It has promised to devote 4.6 billion euros of EU cohesion funds to the building of ten hospitals and the refurbishment of around 100 others.
The left-wing opposition Social Democrats (PSD) were less than impressed, PSD leader Marcel Ciolacu branding the government "stillborn".
He accused Citu's administration of "not putting forward any measure that will improve Romanians' lives or for coming out of the health crisis," adding: "Your only goal is to plunder, to kill Romanian agriculture and business."
The PSD came out just ahead of the PNL in this month's elections but lacked allied in parliament to form a government.

In total 260 MPs voted in favour of approving Citu's cabinet, with 186 against

Members of parliament raise their hands while voting on procedural issues before a session called to vote on the government team of Romanian prime minister-designate Florin Citu in Bucharest, Romania, Wednesday, Dec. 23, 2020.

Romanian parliament approves new pro-European govt

German airline Lufthansa said Wednesday it had flown 80 tonnes of fruits and vegetables to Britain after other links were cut over fears of a virus variant detected in the UK.
-We are considering whether to increase the freight run- a spokesman told AFP.
The airline's freight division Lufthansa Cargo said the fresh produce were usually sent in the hold of passenger flights or using trucks.
But since both routes have been halted by German authorities, the airline had turned to cargo planes to prevent the goods from rotting in its warehouses.
On Tuesday, Germany extended its ban on arrivals from the UK until January 6. Across the EU, restrictions are also in place for British arrivals.
Thousands of truck drivers are stuck in Britain after France on Sunday banned travel from Britain for 48 hours owing to the spread of a new strain of the coronavirus. 
With the cross-channel route widely used for good supplies cut off, fears had grown that supermarket shelves would run empty over the holiday season. 
After emergency talks, France and Britain reopened cross-channel travel on Wednesday but the huge backlog meant it could be days before traffic could run smoothly again.

Germany extended its ban on arrivals from the UK until January 6th

A Lufthansa cargo flight lifting off to deliver groceries

Lufthansa flies food to Britain amid Channel chaos

The Prime Minister of Serbia, Ana Brnabić, gave an exclusive interview for "Dnevni Avaz". Brnabić, among other things, responded to the accusations of the former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Bosnia and Herzegovina Zlatko Lagumdžija, who said that with new measures to enter the country due to the coronavirus pandemic, Serbia introduced "white ribbons" to B&amp;H citizens from the Federation.

How do you comment on the accusations that Serbia has introduced "white ribbons" for the citizens of B&amp;H from the Federation?

- What Lagumdžija talks about is absolutely not true. I really don't know what a man is talking about, and it's not fair to say something like that. The regulation has been made public. Anyone can look at it. We do not make any difference between whether someone is from Banja Luka or Sarajevo. There is no discrimination. It never occurred to us that we had any discrimination. The same conditions apply, this is clearly stated in the Regulation. If someone is from B&amp;H, whether from the Federation or the Republic of Srpska, and has the citizenship of the Republic of Serbia, he must, of course, be treated differently. Just as each state treats its citizens differently. In that case, they enter Serbia and do not need PCR test. If they do not have a PCR test, they go into self-isolation for ten days. After self-isolation, they are free to move, if they are not infected. Of course, they can do it earlier if they do a PCR test and with a negative result, their self-isolation practically stops. That's it. We do not discriminate, no difference between Sarajevo, Banja Luka or any other city in the Federation or Republic of Srpska. This is really an unnecessary raising of tensions, because everything is black and white.
When do you expect the arrival of coronavirus vaccines?
- The first contingent of "Pfizer" vaccines has just landed in Belgrade, at "Nikola Tesla" airport. That's a smaller amount than what was agreed with Pfizer. But we understand because they have reduced delivery to all the countries with which they have a contract. But, in any case, it is enough for us to start vaccination by the end of this year. The professional part of the Crisis Staff is finishing the immunization plan today (yesterday, op. Cit.), so we will start vaccinating in the coming days. This morning (yesterday morning, op. Cit.) around 4,800 doses of "Pfizer" vaccines landed, which is enough for 2,400 people, and we expect some other vaccines soon. We fight the best we can. I think we are the first country in Europe, if you do not count the United Kingdom, to receive "Pfizer" vaccines.

How much space is there for cooperation with B&amp;H when it comes to the procurement of vaccines?
- We are fully committed to cooperation in terms of our foreign policy. We have two key priorities. The first is membership in the European Union and European integration, and the second is regional cooperation, networking and security. In that sense, we tried to help whoever needed any help and support during this pandemic. On the other hand, we tried to create and strengthen our region in projects such as "Green Corridors".

<h2>We will welcome any initiative coming from Sarajevo</h2>

How would you assess the cooperation between Serbia and B&amp;H? How much room is there for progress?
- We are certainly interested in better and closer cooperation with B&amp;H, and that is why I am sorry to see such information, such as the one released by Lagumdžija. As the Prime Minister of the Republic of Serbia, I stand by the fact that, whatever initiative comes from Sarajevo, we will warmly welcome it. This is shown by numerous infrastructure projects and these two ends of the highway to Sarajevo, one of which we are building, and for the other project-technical documentation is being prepared. So, anything that can make the region more stable and secure and allow us a better future, compared to what we had, we are open to that.

<h2>The best economic result in Europe</h2>

The IMF has given great predictions for the Serbian economy for this year ...
- In any case, I do not expect that our economic decline this year will be greater than one percent, and I think that we will still maintain these economic results, ie that we will have the smallest decline in Europe and the best economic result in Europe. When I say that, I do not mean only the GDP, but also the situation in the coffers, that is, what will be the deficit, as well as what will be the outflow of public debt in relation to GDP. We fight every day and keep pushing forward.

Ana Brnabić, Prime Minister of Serbia, for "Avaz"

Brnabić: If someone is from B&H, whether from the Federation or from the Republic of Srpska, and has the citizenship of the Republic of Serbia, he must, of course, be treated differently

We do not differentiate between Sarajevo and Banja Luka

An agreement by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) with B&amp;H authorities on a new three-year extended arrangement has not yet been reached due to a lack of consensus on reforms that should be part of the program.
This was clearly stated by the IMF after their team of experts, led by Martin Petri, head of the Mission to B&amp;H, conducted online negotiations with B&amp;H officials in the past month.

In other words, there is nothing from the new loan, worth 1.5 billion KM, and new negotiations will be resumed only in the spring. However, it is questionable whether an agreement will be reached, given that RS does not want any transfer of competencies.
Vjekoslav Bevanda, Minister of Finance and Treasury of B&amp;H and a member of the Fiscal Council, who was acquainted with the negotiations, told "Avaz" yesterday that "the issue of a new arrangement with the IMF is the least problem for the authorities at the B&amp;H level because not a single stamp from these loans are not used for the budget of B&amp;H institutions, but those funds go to the entities."
- As the funds from the arrangement with the IMF do not go to the B&amp;H budget, so there are no negative consequences for the financial stability of B&amp;H if this arrangement is not achieved - says Bevanda.

However, he explained that each arrangement with the IMF implies a certain set of reforms, some of which represent obligations for institutions at the level of B&amp;H, which must be implemented after the signing of the Letter of Intent and acceptance of structural guidelines and previous measures.
- During the negotiations, I expressed readiness for B&amp;H to accept the arrangement with the IMF, but the representatives of the entities are the ones who, in accordance with their constitutional competencies, decide what is acceptable for them and what is not, so I do not comment on anyone's decisions or actions in the Fiscal Council of B&amp;H - says Bevanda.

- As for the Ministry of Finance and Treasury of B&amp;H and me personally, I am always ready for a compromise based on the Constitution and laws, but you should know that I am only one of six members of the Fiscal Council and have a clear scope of my work in accordance with legal competencies - said Bevanda.

Vjekoslav Bevanda, Minister of Finance of B&H, for "Avaz"

One billion from the IMF needed by the entities

Russia today has handed over an 18th-century icon to B&amp;H Embassy in Moscow, which B&amp;H Presidency member Milorad Dodik presented to Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, the Russian Foreign Ministry said, according to Interfax.
- In agreement with the donor, the icon was handed over to the Embassy of Bosnia and Herzegovina in Moscow on December 23rd. At the same time, it was recommended to the partners to use the available legal mechanisms to clarify all the circumstances of this case, including the origin of the mentioned artifact - they pointed out in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Earlier, the Embassy of Ukraine in B&amp;H sent a note to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs with a request to return the icon to Kiev that Dodik gave to Lavrov.

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Madeleine Albright and Mahathir bin Mohamad received monuments in Sarajevo

Pope offers Christmas messages for Lebanon, S. Sudan

The police were torturing the girl in the cottage

Everything Bakir said and denied

Dodik's adviser claims: Icon donated to Lavrov has been owned by family from Banja Luka for more than 15 years

Radončić: Why am I a "migrant" and Sebija is not

German Ambassador Uebber at a meeting in the Presidency of B&H, whether a new High Representative was discussed

"Avaz" in the "Lipa" camp: Chaotic situation in one of the tents

Migrants return to the burned camp site "Lipa", the Red Cross distributes food to them

Radončić wished all Catholics a Merry Christmas

Austria ski resorts reopen despite looming third lockdown

Romanian parliament approves new pro-European govt

Lufthansa flies food to Britain amid Channel chaos

We do not differentiate between Sarajevo and Banja Luka

One billion from the IMF needed by the entities

Russia returned the icon to the B&H Embassy in Moscow