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Press release
SARAJEVO, May 26 (FENA) - Minister of Civil Affairs of Bosnia and Herzegovina Ankica Gudeljević signed a bilateral agreement between Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Republic of Croatia, as well as a tripartite agreement between Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Republic of Croatia and AstraZeneca.
This created the necessary preconditions for the realization of the donation of 30,000 doses of vaccine against COVID-19 infectious disease from the manufacturer AstraZeneca, the Ministry of Civil Affairs of BiH announced.
The donation of the vaccines to the people of Bosnia and Herzegovina was announced during the recent visit of the Minister of Foreign and European Affairs of the Republic of Croatia, Gordan Grlić Radman, to Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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However, Sarajevo responds that in the absence of the announced deliveries, Bosnia-Herzegovina could seek justice in court. Bosnia and Herzegovina signed a contract with COVAX in September 2020 for the purchase of 153.600 doses of AstraZeneca and 23.000 doses of Pfizer, and Bosnia-Herzegovina paid more than 10.5 million dollars for that purpose, the Radio Free Europe website reported. Assistant Minister of Civil Affairs of Bosnia-Herzegovina in the health sector, Dušan Kojić, says that new conditions are constantly coming before BiH , i.e. that a meeting on the demands of the Pfizer company will be held on Friday. RFE did not receive a comment from the Pfizer s representative office in Bosnia-Herzegovina about the new conditions in question, which are mentioned in the Ministry of Civil Affairs.
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Belarus 24 December 2020
On December 21-24, 2020 the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Belarus to Hungary and Bosnia and Herzegovina concurrently Aleksandr Ponomarev paid a working visit to Sarajevo (Bosnia and Herzegovina).
During the visit the Ambassador of Belarus was received by the Chairman of the Council of Ministers of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Zoran Tegeltija. During the meeting the parties discussed the state and prospects of relations between Belarus and Bosnia and Herzegovina. The interlocutors also exchanged information about the situation with the coronavirus pandemic in the two countries, as well as about the measures taken for epidemiological protection and support of the population.