Cikotić and Lungarotti discuss managing migration and increasing the safety
Among other things, they gave priority to the execution of works and the establishment of adequate accommodation capacities in Lipa near Bihać H. J. I. / Fena
11.02.2021
MEETING
Cikotić and Lungarotti discuss managing migration and increasing the safety
Selmo Cikotić and Laura Lungarotti
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Minister of Security of Bosnia and Herzegovina Selmo Cikotić met today in Sarajevo with the Head of the Mission of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) in B&H Laura Lungarotti.
The two officials discussed the operational implementation of defined priorities in migration management and increasing the security for the citizens.
B&H and France continue to cooperate in the fight against illicit arms trade
Both countries are committed to working together to combat these forms of crimes H. J. I. / Fena
09.02.2021
TECHNICAL AGREEMENT
B&H and France continue to cooperate in the fight against illicit arms trade
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Ambassador of the Republic of France to B&H Christine Toudic and Minister of Security of Bosnia and Herzegovina Selmo Cikotić
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Minister of Security of Bosnia and Herzegovina Selmo Cikotić and Ambassador of the Republic of France to B&H Christine Toudic today signed a Technical Agreement between the Ministry of Security of B&H and the Ministry of Interior of the Republic of France on cooperation in combating illicit trade in firearms, ammunition and explosives.
Hundreds of migrants stranded in
freezing conditions at Bosnia camp January 01, 2021
Nearly a thousand migrants are facing unforgiving winter conditions without shelter on Thursday after being forced to return to the burnt-out shell of their former camp in Bosnia. Courtesy photo
SARAJEVO Nearly a thousand migrants are facing unforgiving winter conditions without shelter on Thursday after being forced to return to the burnt-out shell of their former camp in Bosnia.
Having spent 24 hours waiting on coaches to be taken to a former army barracks, they returned to their fire-ravaged camp after a lack of agreement on their re-housing.
The Lipa camp, on the Croatian border in north-western Bosnia, was set up as a temporary measure in the spring to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic but is devoid of any utilities and now shelters, leaving migrants with no refuge from icy winds and snow.
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31 December, 2020, 10:13 pm
Migrants walk towards the forest after camp Lipa was closed, in Bihac, Bosnia and Herzegovina December 30, 2020. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic
BIHAC, Bosnia (Reuters) – Hundreds of migrants from Africa, Asia and the Middle East were left stranded in the open air on Wednesday when an attempt to relocate them to another site in Bosnia after fire wrecked their temporary camp failed, police and migrants said.
Fire destroyed Camp Lipa, near the town of Bihac in western Bosnia, last week. The migrants were supposed to be transferred to the town of Bradina, about 320 km away in central Bosnia.
They were initially put onto buses and waited in cold winter weather for more than a day to be taken to another place. However, there was no final agreement on where they should go.