The Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina is expecting the Russian side to sign a contract for the supply of 500,000 doses of Sputnik V vaccine today.

The delivery of the first 100,000 doses of this vaccine to the Federation of BiH is expected next week.
FB&amp;H Prime Minister Fadil Novalić confirmed this at today's extraordinary session of the House of Representatives of the FB&amp;H Parliament, which is underway, and was convened due to the worsened epidemiological situation in FB&amp;H.
In his introductory address, Novalić explained the difficulties regarding the purchase of vaccines against COVID through the COVAX mechanism and added that the agreed price of Sputnik vaccines is 14.31 euros per dose.
FB&amp;H Minister of Health, Vjekoslav Mandić, also addressed the deputies at this session, saying that the current measures to combat coronavirus infection have been in force for four months in the Federation of B&amp;H and that the question is how much some cantons have respected them in the meantime and that it is necessary to continue with these measures and adhere to them consistently.
The Minister of Health, as well as representatives of the Crisis Staff of the FB&amp;H Ministry of Health, who also addressed the previous part of today's extraordinary session of the House of Representatives, reminded that in the meantime the cantonal levels in FB&amp;H have been authorized to introduce more restrictive measures, depending on the epidemiological situation in their environments.

The delivery of the first 100,000 doses of this vaccine is expected next week

FB&H Prime Minister Fadil Novalić confirmed this at today's extraordinary session of the House of Representatives of the FB&H Parliament, which is underway, and was convened due to the worsened epidemiological situation in FB&H

Novalić: The signature for Sputnik V vaccines is expected today

An extraordinary session of the House of Representatives of the FB&amp;H Parliament has begun this morning, with the only one item on the agenda - the worsening of the epidemiological situation in the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

At this session, MPs are expected to vote on measures to mitigate the effects of the epidemic.
Formally, the session began with the verification of the mandate of MP Majra Dautbegović instead of the incumbent MP Salem Marić, who in the meantime was elected to another position incompatible with the previous one.n

MPs are expected to vote on measures to mitigate the effects of the epidemic

FB&H Parl. HoR holding a session on the worsening of epidemiological situation

I hope that this issue of procurement of vaccines in the Federation of B&amp;H is really resolved and completed, I hope that they will arrive, said the President of the People and Justice Elmedin Konaković for the Avaz portal.

- I am really trying not to upset our public with any comments for a month now, in this third wave of the pandemic. Of course, we are all shocked by the behavior of higher levels of government. I testify that as a Canton, we have tried to get vaccines at 20 addresses, but in every place the wall was actually administrative because we are a lower level of government, and they tell us that they are waiting for the Federation of B&amp;H and the state to address - Konaković pointed out.
He added that he will certainly have a comment on everything that is happening, but sometimes when the line is drawn.
- Nothing can surprise us from this FB&amp;H Government headed by Prime Minister Fadil Novalić. We are completely used to everything they do and we will be surprised if something good happens as a result of the actions of this government - Konaković emphasized.

According to him, the story for small children can be called a justification that vaccines could not be procured until now because they were waiting for someone from the Council of Ministers to say that the state cannot buy them.
- We follow the processes in the world, we see that citizens in Burunda are being vaccinated, some third world countries have reached the halfway point, and we still do not have vaccines, except for donated ones. A special story is the circus related to the "AstraZeneca" vaccine that arrived from Serbia, health workers received the first dose, and now it is not known whether they will get the second one. And we have a new donation from President Erdogan. We also follow this tape regarding the Ad hoc body. It is illogical that the FB&amp;H Government claims for so long that it cannot procure vaccines and then in the midst of a pandemic it says that it can, that is complete nonsense. But I repeat once again, I try not to add oil to the fire at a time when there are too many infected and dead from the coronavirus - Konaković concluded.

I try not to add fuel to the fire at a time when there are too many infected and dead from the coronavirus, says Konaković

Konaković: We are shocked by the behavior of higher levels of government

Konaković for "Avaz": Nothing can surprise us from this FB&H Government headed by Novalić

The French government will impose tougher restrictions for some regions including Paris from this weekend to counter the accelerating spread of COVID-19 infections, spokesman Gabriel Attal said on Wednesday after a cabinet meeting.The announcement paves the way for new curbs in the greater Paris region, where intensive care wards are full and the hospital system is buckling with an incident rate of more than 400 cases per 100,000 inhabitants.
Attal said the new measures for Paris could include some form of confinement. Weekend lockdowns have already been imposed on top of a nationwide nightly curfew along parts of the Mediterranean Riviera and some areas of the north.
President Emmanuel Macron had hoped a vaccination drive could stave off a new pandemic wave triggered by more contagious variants, and prevent France from resorting to more measures that risk slowing the economy and cooping up citizens.
That approach is now being tested. The vaccine rollout has been slowed by an onerous European Union procurement process, supply difficulties, public scepticism and most recently the suspension of vaccinations using AstraZeneca shots in more than a dozen EU states including France.
Macron on Wednesday defended the EU COVID-19 vaccine strategy and said that within a few months Europe would be among the regions producing the most doses.
-We are living through the hardest weeks now. We know it- Macron said after welcoming Poland’s prime minister at the Elysee Palace.
The new restrictions will be announced by the prime minister on Thursday. They will not include school closures, Attal said.
The head of public hospitals in Paris earlier warned that the virus was running amok in the capital and surrounding departments, an area that accounts for about a third of economic activity.
-The virus is not under control- Martin Hirsch said.

The announcement paves the way for new curbs in the greater Paris region, where intensive care wards are full and the hospital system is buckling with an incident rate of more than 400 cases per 100,000 inhabitants

Seagulls are seen on an empty beach of the Promenade des Anglais during the first local weekend lockdown imposed to slow the rate of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) contagion, in Nice, France, February 27, 2021.

France to impose tougher COVID-19 curbs on Paris, other regions

German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas demanded on Wednesday that Russia respect foreign correspondents’ right to report after an official warned German journalists of possible reprisals in a tit-for-tat row.

Earlier this month, Russia’s foreign-facing state television station RT accused the German government of putting pressure on lenders, including Commerzbank, to close the bank account of its German office.
Germany has denied that while Commerzbank declined to comment on individual clients.
Russian-based German journalists were summoned to a video conference on Monday at which, according to a participant, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova warned that Moscow would have to respond if Berlin did not back down over RT.
-Press freedom is not up for negotiation- Maas wrote on Twitter. -That is possible in Germany and it must be the case in Russia too.-The spat adds to strains between Russia and the West.
Though heavily dependent on Russia for energy imports, Germany has condemned the imprisonment of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, who was arrested on his return from Germany after treatment for poisoning in Russia.
Showing the importance to Russia of the goodwill of Germany, a major buyer of its energy, RT last November promised a full German-language TV channel in addition to its current online selection of programmes.
Several countries, including the United States, have labelled RT state propaganda, while British regulators have repeatedly investigated it for breaches of impartiality rules.

Russian-based German journalists were summoned to a video conference on Monday at which, according to a participant, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova warned that Moscow would have to respond if Berlin did not back down over RT

Vehicles of Russian state-controlled broadcaster Russia Today (RT) are seen near the Red Square in central Moscow, Russia June 15, 2018.

Berlin warns Moscow: don't restrict our journalists

Commenting on the fact that Federal Government, under the pressure from the ad hoc commissions and the FB&amp;H Parliament, managed to agree on the procurement of the vaccine in a few days, and after six months of delay, SDP leader Nermin Nikšić told „Avaz“ that it had already become disgusting how much the authorities in Bosnia and Herzegovina show a lack of feeling, responsibility and concern for the health of citizens.

-Of course, the representatives of the same political parties are at the head of the Council of Ministers and the entity governments. However, this does not prevent the SNSD, SDA and HDZ from publicly arguing over who is responsible and why there are still no vaccines in Bosnia and Herzegovina, of course, except for those we received as alms. We had the opportunity to find out how Mr. Novalić (Fadil, op. cit.) as a citizen thinks that everything is too slow, but we do not know what he thinks as prime minister and how citizen Novalić would evaluate Prime Minister Novalić - says Nikšić.
He says it is unbelievable that the Council of Ministers and the entity governments cannot agree on measures to be introduced for the whole of Bosnia and Herzegovina. 
-The already proverbial lack of courage and responsibility in the Federal Government results in measures differing from canton to canton, which greatly reduces their effect despite the efforts of individual cantonal governments. . After ordering the Health Insurance Institute for two or three days to sign a contract for the supply of vaccines with two completely different suppliers, and since the director of the Health Insurance Institute did not do so, another supplier was found overnight,who apparently already has vaccines in the vaccine, to deliver 100,000 within three days, and it remains to be guessed what will happen to the remaining 400,000 - Nikšić wonders.

He points out that this is just a proof that the whole story about the law and the impossibility of procurement was not realistic.
- Time will show how realistic the procurement of all 500,000 vaccines is. I sincerely hope that this story will not end like the one about the purchase of respirators and that the speculations that have emerged as to where these 100,000 vaccines come from will not prove true.
At this moment, however, it is most important for that contingent of vaccines to come and for the mass vaccination of the population to finally start - Nikšić concludes.

It is disgusting how much the government in B&H shows a lack of care and responsibility for the health of citizens

Nikšić: Time will show how realistic the procurement of all 500,000 vaccines is

Nikšić for "Avaz": I sincerely hope that this story about the import of the first 100,000 vaccines will not end like the one about the purchase of respirators

Palestinians on Wednesday received their first delivery of coronavirus vaccines via the United Nations Covax programme supporting poorer areas, an AFP journalist in the occupied West Bank reported.

Earlier, some 60,000 doses of Pfizer and AstraZeneca vaccines allocated to the Palestinians under the Covax scheme arrived at Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv, according to an Israeli security source.
The UN's Middle East envoy, Tor Wennesland, welcomed the delivery.
-Those vaccines being sent to the West Bank and Gaza will be critical tools in our fight against the pandemic and for socioeconomic recovery- his office quoted him as saying.
The vaccines arrive as Palestinian hospitals are overwhelmed with Covid-19 patients, in sharp contrast to neighbouring Israel which has fully vaccinated nearly 46 percent of its population with twin doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine.
The Palestinian Authority said that vaccination would begin on Sunday, primarily for those aged over 75, cancer patients and medical personnel.
Israel has provided 5,000 doses to Palestinian medical personnel, and vaccinated 90,000 Palestinians who work inside Israel or in Jewish settlements in the West Bank.
But while rights groups have urged it to extend its innoculation campaign throughout the territory, as the occupying power, Israel says health responsibilities there fall to the Palestinian Authority.
The United Arab Emirates has sent around 60,000 doses of the Russian vaccine Sputnik V to the Gaza Strip, a Palestinian enclave of two million inhabitants. 
The Palestinians are also to receive 100,000 Chinese vaccine doses and nearly two million other portions through the Covax scheme, set up by the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the Alliance for Human Rights. 
In Gaza, health authorities have confirmed more than 57,000 infected people, including more than 568 dead, since the start of the pandemic.
In the occupied West Bank, around 156,000 patients have been recorded, including more than 1,745 deaths.

The Palestinian Authority said that vaccination would begin on Sunday, primarily for those aged over 75, cancer patients and medical personnel

The vaccines arrive as Palestinian hospitals are overwhelmed with Covid-19 patients

Palestinians receive first batch of UN vaccines

The EU will unveil Wednesday a proposed European vaccine pass to ease travel, an idea pushed by tourist hotspots such as Greece that are desperate to save their crippled economies.

The proposal by the European Commission, the EU's executive arm, would create a digital certificate to show at airports and border crossings to prove that the traveller has received the precious jab.
The idea is to allow inoculated tourists to get around restrictions on non-essential travel that have spread across Europe, as a second and third wave of Covid-19 infections brought much intra-EU travel to a standstill.
-We don't call it a vaccine passport we call it a green digital certificate- EU commission spokesman Eric Mamer said Tuesday.
-It is a document that will describe the medical situation of the individuals who hold this certificate.-The plan, however, will face stiff resistance from many member states, a key concern being that those still awaiting vaccinations would be discriminated against.

Europe is trailing the United States and Britain in its vaccination campaign, with deliveries of doses delayed and some countries worried about the safety of the AstraZeneca vaccine.

According to the latest count by AFP, only 3.5 percent of the European population has been fully vaccinated.
The commission's plan is "very ambitious" with some "very difficult" questions yet to be resolved, said a senior EU diplomat.
Some member states are worried that the legal path to create the pass, which would include approval by European Parliament, will take too long, with the summer holidays just three months away.
The Commission is "working to have it done by June", Internal Market Commissioner Thierry Breton said on Sunday.
In addition, Hungary and the Czech Republic will fight to ensure vaccines not yet approved Europe-wide, such as Russia's Sputnik V, will be part of the scheme.
In the commission's proposal, member states would decide which vaccines to recognise.
Finally, some will be wary of Brussels using the Covid crisis to grab power from national governments, with civil liberties under threat. 
Health matters in Europe have traditionally remained a national matter.
-Vaccination can't be the only way to unlock all sorts of freedoms when there are people who can't or won't get vaccinated -– often through no fault of their own- said Israel Butler of the Civil Liberties Union for Europe.

The idea is to allow inoculated tourists to get around restrictions on non-essential travel that have spread across Europe

The proposal by the European Commission, the EU's executive arm, would create a digital certificate to show at airports and border crossings to prove that the traveller has received the precious jab

EU proposes vaccine pass to help save tourism

Members of the Presidency of B&amp;H, Šefik Džaferović and Željko Komšić held a meeting today with representatives of the Committee on Foreign Cooperation of Turkey (DEIK).

After the meeting, Džaferović said that the topic was increasing the number of production investments from Turkey to B&amp;H, and improving the business environment when it comes to Turkish investors.
-In this regard, we have heard a number of important things that we will introduce to other institutions in B&amp;H, and we invited Turkish businesses to invest in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The door will be wide open for them- said Džaferović.
During yesterday's visit to Ankara, a Memorandum was signed between the Agency for the Promotion of Foreign Investments in B&amp;H and the Investment Office of the President of Turkey.
Džaferović stated that today's meeting was an additional impetus for strengthening economic cooperation, and that Bosnia and Herzegovina has exceptional friendly relations with Turkey, and our goal is for them to be intensified in the business field as well, in parallel with cooperation at the political level.
-We want to make full use of the room created by the Free Trade Agreement, which gave us the most favorable status of all countries. Our goal is to raise the trade exchange to one billion dollars a year- Džaferović pointed out.
The meeting was organized by the Turkey-Bosnia and Herzegovina Business Council, and was attended by numerous business people in Turkey, the B&amp;H Presidency said.

It was organized by the Turkey-Bosnia and Herzegovina Business Council

Džaferović stated that today's meeting was an additional impetus for strengthening economic cooperation

Džaferović: Trade exchange with Turkey should reach one billion dollars a year

About 750 migrants and refugees arrived in the Una-Sana Canton (USC) in the first 15 days of March alone, confirmed the Cantonal Police Administration today.

-Entering the canton near Bosanska Krupa, we registered about 500 migrants in this month alone, while about 250 people arrived in the area near Ključ and headed to Bihać or Velika Kladuša. We stop them at these checkpoints, but we are aware that we cannot fully close the entire area, and that they will find their way to their temporary target destinations- said the USC police spokesman Ale Šiljdedić.
In four temporary reception camps in Bihać, Cazin and Velika Kladuša, all accommodation capacities are currently filled, considering that about 2,500 people are taken care of in them.
According to the USC Ministry of the Interior, almost the same number of migrants and refugees live in city streets, public areas and abandoned buildings as they do in the camps.
-It is obvious that we are facing a new migrant wave, which we expected with the arrival of warmer weather. We have to take certain actions, because a large number of people are staying in abandoned buildings and on the streets, without any supervision. We hope that an appropriate solution will be found for these people outside our canton, given that we cannot adequately take care of them and that it is really impossible and inadmissible to open new reception centers in this part of Bosnia and Herzegovina- said the USC Prime Minister Mustafa Ružnić. He also underlined the problem of insufficient cooperation and lack of interest of the owners of the facilities inhabited by a large number of migrants and refugees, with special emphasis on the lack of protection and neglect of the unfinished building of the Retirement Home, i.e., the former Krajinametal facility in Bihać.

This inforrmation was confirmed by the Cantonal Police Administration today

In four temporary reception camps in Bihać, Cazin and Velika Kladuša, all accommodation capacities are currently filled, considering that about 2,500 people are taken care of in them

About 750 migrants arrived in Una-Sana Canton in the month of March

In the past 24 hours, 3,969 samples were registered with the Public Health Institute of the Federation of B&amp;H, of which 1,216 were positive for SARS-CoV-2.

New cases have been registered in all cantons in the Federation of B&amp;H. So far, a total of 497,382 samples have been tested in the Federation of B&amp;H, and SARS-CoV-2 has been confirmed in 96,902 people.
As of today, 82,293 patients have recovered in the Federation of B&amp;H. In the past 24 hours, 507 patients have recovered.
There are currently active 11,529 cases positive for SARS-CoV-2 in the Federation of B&amp;H.
In the past 24 hours, 24 new deaths were reported to the Public Health Institute of the Federation of B&amp;H. As of today, the number of deaths in the Federation of B&amp;H is 3,080, the entity Institute for Public Health announced.
In the last 24 hours, at the Institute of Public Health of the Republic of Srpska, the University Clinical Center of the Republic of Srpska, the University Hospital in Foča and the hospitals of Sv. Vračevi in ​​Bijeljina and Sv.apostol Luka in Doboj tested 1,165 laboratory samples, and coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) was confirmed in 422 people.
In the last 24 hours, ten deaths were reported to the Institute of Public Health of the Republic of Srpska, in which the presence of the coronavirus was confirmed.
So far, 47,450 cases of coronavirus were confirmed in the entity, and a total of 2,405 people died in whom a coronavirus test was confirmed.
In Republic of Srpska, 37,221 people have recovered from the new coronavirus so far, and a total of 215,476 people have been tested.
In the last 24 hours, 129 people were tested in the Brčko District of B&amp;H, of which 88 were positive cases. One man died.

New cases have been registered in all cantons in the Federation of B&H

There are currently active 11,529 cases positive for SARS-CoV-2 in the Federation of B&H

COVID-19 confirmed in 1,726 people in B&H, with 35 deaths

Fahrudin Radončić, president of the Alliance for a Better Future and former Minister of Security of B&amp;H, wrote a post on his Facebook profile about procurement of vaccines.
You can read his full post below:
After six months of inadmissible delay, the Government of FB&amp;H yesterday, unanimously, made a decision on the urgent procurement of 500,000 doses of vaccine "Sputnik V".
Masks have fallen.
The first question is why the Government of FB&amp;H did not do this on its own initiative a few months ago?
The second question is why Novalić lazily waited for the FB&amp;H Parliament - on the alarming proposal of SBB MP prof. Dr. Kacila - practically ordered the urgent formation of the Ad Hoc Commission, which within 24 hours, without any difficulties, operatively invited the bidders, ie domestic wholesalers to apply for the purchase of larger quantities of vaccines.
Couldn't the FB&amp;H Government have done that on its own a long time ago?
It has all the competencies and its institutions to do what Novalić did for the weekend, with a big and inadmissible delay - he sent Letters of Intent to about twenty addresses?

Secondly, how will the SDA leadership and their followers now be able to convince someone that vaccines could not be procured, because this is supposedly prevented by the Law on Public Procurement "whose amendments have not been adopted"

Yesterday's unanimous decision of the FB&amp;H Government unequivocally confirmed that the mentioned Law was not an obstacle at all.
We can only pray to Dear God that the planned contingent of 500,000 vaccines arrives within the promised deadline.
Thus, the Federation of B&amp;H, but also the Bosniaks, would finally cease to be the only area in Europe (and much wider), where the authorities have not yet enabled their people to even start mass immunization.
Did we have to wait for such a large number of deaths and new cases for Mr. Novalić to come out of the respiratory nightmare and only under the pressure of the FB&amp;H Parliament technically announce and solve, practically, the most ordinary tender?
Thousands of them are completed in the public and private sectors every year, without any problems?
Families of those who died unnecessarily and those who are about to die (because it will take at least a month or two to feel the positive results of mass immunization), and thousands of those who will unnecessarily ger over coronavirus and have lasting health consequences, our people has the right to be very dissatisfied and angry.
Especially if it turns out to be true that the Ambassador of Bosnia and Herzegovina in Moscow, at the end of January, officially sent a letter and contact to Minister Turković for direct, much cheaper and more timely procurement of one million doses of "Sputnik V".

How will the SDA leadership and their followers now be able to convince someone that vaccines could not be procured, because this is supposedly prevented by the Law on Public Procurement "whose amendments have not been adopted"

Radončić on the procurement of vaccines: All the masks have fallen

At an emergency session last night, the Government of the Federation of B&amp;H took note of the information about the implementation of the market research procedure, negotiations with vaccine manufacturers and/or authorized distributors for the purpose of procuring coronavirus vaccines (COVID-19), prepared by the Ad hoc team.

Based on this information and assessment of the offered prices, the delivery deadlines, the offered quantities and guarantees for good performance, the Government instructed the Public Health Institute of the Federation of B&amp;H, without delay, to conclude an agreement for the procurement of vaccines with the only bidder that submitted a complete bid - Medimpex Sarajevo (that will procure Sputnik V vaccine).
The total amount of vaccines that will be procured under the contract is 500,000 doses.
The contract should define that the bidder guarantees good job performance, that the quantity of the first contingent is at least 100,000 vaccines, and the deadline for its delivery is three working days from the day of signing the letter of credit.
The contract will define that the payment of the total price will be made successively, after the delivery of vaccines and obtaining the approval of the Agency for Medicines and Medical Devices of B&amp;H for the use of the vaccine.
The government has instructed the Ad Hoc team to continue working with all other bidders that need additional time for submission of bids or possibly new bidders, which will subsequently appear, to continue negotiations for the procurement of additional quantities of vaccines.
The FB&amp;H Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Health are in charge of immediately undertaking activities for the redistribution of funds planned in the Budget of the Federation of B&amp;H for 2021 to the Public Health Institute of the Federation of B&amp;H, for the procurement of coronavirus vaccines (COVID-19), stated the FB&amp;H Government.&nbsp;

The total amount of Sputnik V vaccines that will be procured under the contract is 500,000 doses

The contract should define that the bidder guarantees good job performance, that the quantity of the first contingent is at least 100,000 vaccines, and the deadline for its delivery is three working days from the day of signing the letter of credit

FB&H govt. orders contract signing for the purchase of vaccines without delay

AstraZeneca's Covid vaccine shot is safe and there is no evidence of health risks, the UK's health minister wrote in a newspaper article published on Wednesday, after some EU countries halted rollouts over fears of blood clots.

Matt Hancock urged the British public to take the vaccine even after countries including France, Spain and Germany suspended it.
The European Medicines Agency, which previously approved the jab, is conducting a review of the vaccine but said in the meantime it remained convinced of its benefits.
-There is no evidence that vaccines caused these clots- Hancock wrote in The Sun, stressing that the jab had the backing of the EMA, the World Health Organization and Britain's medicine's regulator.
-More than 11 million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine have now been administered across the UK- he wrote.
-The rate of reported cases (of clots) among the people vaccinated is lower than what would be expected to happen naturally in the general population.-Britain has given nearly 25 million people a first dose of a Covid vaccine, after starting a mass inoculation programme in December last year.
The AstraZeneca jab, developed with scientists at the University of Oxford, is central to getting the country out of lockdown restrictions and back to normality.
London has ordered 100 million doses of the low-cost shot, which has been hailed as a potential gamechanger in the global fightback against the virus.
France and Italy have said they will "promptly restart" giving the jab if the EMA review allows it.
As Britain has surged ahead with its vaccination programme, European countries have been accused of playing politics to distract from their sluggish inoculation rollouts.
AstraZeneca announced in January it could only deliver a third of the 120 million doses initially promised to the 27 EU member states in the first quarter, sparking criticism.
As Europe looks to speed up its immunisation programme, Hancock wrote that this week the UK will get "a boost in supply" that will help accelerate the rollout.
Every adult is now expected to get a first dose of a vaccine by the end of July, he added.

Matt Hancock urged the British public to take the vaccine even after countries including France, Spain and Germany suspended it

More than 11 million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine have now been administered across the UK

No evidence' AstraZeneca jab caused blood clots

Fahrudin Radončić, president of the Alliance for a Better Future, posted on his Instagram profile.
You can read his full post below:
- Exactly one year ago, at the truly traumatic beginning of the pandemic and corona crisis, as state of Bosnia and Herzegovina, we had a coordinated response to the pandemic.
Sanitary teams were at the borders, the Coordination Body for Protection and Rescue was more than active, we took care of the timely procurement of medical equipment, medicines and donations, records were kept of each patient and they were controlled are they in self-isolation ...
Intercity bus traffic was prohibited, gatherings, we had many more other measures and fewer deaths. All measures were coordinated at the level of Bosnia and Herzegovina through the Council of Ministers and the governments of the Federation of B&amp;H and the Republic of Srpska and all ten cantons.
Crisis staffs have been activated. The health services have been united, and all police resources have been activated, even some members of the B&amp;H Armed Forces. The Council of Ministers held emergency telephone sessions several times a week and resolved problems immediately. There was, at least through the Ministry of Security of B&amp;H and myself, an excellent operational connection with the Presidency of B&amp;H and all its members.
Today, to the great regret and shame, there is no activity in the Council of Ministers of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Turković, Cikotić and Podžić do not see each other at all and do not have or do not want to show the capacity of mediation and agility in the Council of Ministers and towards their colleagues in it.
Ministers from the SNSD and HDZ seem to deliberately want to compromise any need for the existence of a state level in resolving the historical crisis that is becoming cataclysmic. That is why I call on Turković, Cikotić and even Podžić, to start working immediately.
If Minister Cikotić is not informed how it is possible for the Bi&amp; Council of Ministers to work and coordinate much better and more successfully, Ms. Turković and Požić know how - they were there and sat next to me, as we coordinated, initiated and dynamized the faster and more responsible work of the Council of Ministers.
Bosniaks have no other choice in the situation of mass deaths and late procurement and arrival of larger quantities of vaccines, but to publicly demand that their representatives finally react adequately and act at least approximately as they did a year ago - wrote Radončić.

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All measures were coordinated at the level of Bosnia and Herzegovina through the Council of Ministers and the governments of the Federation of B&H and Republic of Srpska and all ten cantons, according to the president of SBB

Radončić: Turković, Cikotić and Podžić must start working immediately

NATO’s ability to defend remained undiminished despite last year’s challenges, the NATO secretary-general said on Tuesday.

Presenting NATO’s annual report, Jens Stoltenberg described 2020 as “dominated by the pandemic which changed our lives, our economies and our societies.”
-But NATO's ability to defend our nations’ populations remained as strong as it was- Stoltenberg stressed, praising the allies' “steady increase in defense spending” that has been rising for the sixth consecutive year.
He also warned that “security challenges haven’t gone away” during the pandemic, naming terrorism, cyber-attacks, "Russia’s aggressive foreign policy," the rise of China, and security implications of climate change as the most important threats for the military alliance.
-No country, no continent can tackle them alone- Stoltenberg said.
He also highlighted that trust in the alliance and the principle of collective defense remained significant for the population of NATO countries.
According to the latest polls, 62% of people would vote to remain a NATO ally if a referendum was held, and only 11% would vote against membership.
Similarly, 79% of the citizens in allied countries find the transatlantic cooperation important.

62% of NATO’s population committed to remaining member of military alliance

Presenting NATO’s annual report, Jens Stoltenberg described 2020 as “dominated by the pandemic which changed our lives, our economies and our societies”

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FB&H Parl. HoR holding a session on the worsening of epidemiological situation

Konaković for "Avaz": Nothing can surprise us from this FB&H Government headed by Novalić

France to impose tougher COVID-19 curbs on Paris, other regions

Berlin warns Moscow: don't restrict our journalists

Nikšić for "Avaz": I sincerely hope that this story about the import of the first 100,000 vaccines will not end like the one about the purchase of respirators

Palestinians receive first batch of UN vaccines

EU proposes vaccine pass to help save tourism

Džaferović: Trade exchange with Turkey should reach one billion dollars a year

About 750 migrants arrived in Una-Sana Canton in the month of March

COVID-19 confirmed in 1,726 people in B&H, with 35 deaths

Radončić on the procurement of vaccines: All the masks have fallen

FB&H govt. orders contract signing for the purchase of vaccines without delay

No evidence' AstraZeneca jab caused blood clots

Radončić: Turković, Cikotić and Podžić must start working immediately

Stoltenberg: NATO remains strong despite pandemic