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The EU donates high-tech equipment worth 1.4 million BAM to strengthen operational capacities of the BiH Border Police

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The European Union donated specialised equipment worth 1.4 million BAM to the Border Police of Bosnia and Herzegovina today, with the aim of enhancing their operational capabilities. The equipment includes 25 short and medium-range drones, 30 handheld thermal imaging cameras, and 5 heartbeat detectors, along with specialised training for drone operators. In addition to advanced surveillance technologies, the donation provides four trailers designed for transporting service dogs which will be delivered next week. Together, these resources will significantly enhance surveillance and inspection capabilities at border crossing points and along the border.

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On behalf of the Delegation of the EU to Bosnia and Herzegovina, the equipment was handed over by Karel Lizerot, Head of the Section for Justice and Home Affairs, Migration, and Public Administration Reform to Border Police Director Mirko Kuprešaković, in the presence of Michael J.F. O’Mahony, Deputy Chief of Mission of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) in Bosnia and Herzegovina, who represented IOM BiH, the organization responsible for implementing the procurement and monitoring process.

“Border security and migration management are shared priorities for Bosnia and Herzegovina and the European Union. The modern surveillance tools the Border Police officers received today will help strengthen the fight against irregular migration and smuggling. Improvements to the coordination, efficiency and the overall effectiveness of border control not only make Bosnia and Herzegovina’s borders safer but enhance our collective security. The EU is committed to supporting Bosnia and Herzegovina on its path to the EU, including strengthening border security and migration management in line with EU standards.”, said Lizerot.

Director Kuprešaković expressed his gratitude for the long-standing and continuous cooperation with EU: “We especially appreciate that, through various projects - including donations of specialized equipment, vehicles, facilities, communication tools, and officer training, you have helped that Border police agency respond more effectively to numerous security challenges. Thanks to your support and the donated equipment, we are now able to manage the state border more efficiently and strengthen our own capacities, thereby jointly contributing to a safer environment for all citizens in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the wider region," said director Kuprešaković.

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Migration management requires a comprehensive approach to addressing complex humanitarian and security challenges. Therefore, the EU continuously supports the Ministry of Security and Bosnia and Herzegovina in building a sustainable migration management system. Recognising that this task requires significant resources, the EU funded a seven-month training programme in 2025 for 142 new Border Police cadets (the XII generation), worth one million BAM, building on last year’s training of 150 cadets from the XI generation.

Over the past seven years, the EU has provided more than 9 million euros to strengthen the capacities of the Border Police of Bosnia and Herzegovina, including supplying specialised equipment, vehicles, communication systems, and IT infrastructure. This investment has directly enhanced the operational readiness and professionalism of border management institutions across the country.

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Cooperation between Bosnia and Herzegovina and the EU on border security and migration management will be further strengthened following the signature of the Frontex Status Agreement in Brussels on 11 June 2025, allowing the European Border and Coast Guard Agency (Frontex) to carry out joint operations with Bosnia and Herzegovina and deploy its standing corps anywhere along the country’s borders.

The European Union, in cooperation with the International Organization for Migration (IOM), will continue to support the strengthening of Bosnia and Herzegovina’s migration and border management systems through the procurement of equipment, capacity building, and the provision of professional assistance to the Ministry of Security, the Service for Foreigners’ Affairs, Border Police and Sector for Asylum, the Directorate for Coordination of Police Bodies in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and other institutions and agencies responsible for this sector.

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The Border Police of Bosnia and Herzegovina will continue to pursue opportunities to modernise its resources and strengthen the expertise of its staff, reaffirming its commitment to building a secure, reliable, and E-standard border management system.

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#Bosnia #Bosnia-Herzégovine #Balkans #route_des_Balkans #frontières #migrations #réfugiés #militarisation_des_frontières #IOM #OIM #équipement #don #UE #EU #union_européenne #drones #police #caméras #training #formations #surveillance_des_frontières #Karel_Lizerot #Mirko_Kuprešaković #coopération #border_management #Frontex_Status_Agreement #Frontex

Carovana Abriendo Fronteras 2024: verso i #Balcani, contro il nuovo Patto UE sulla migrazione e l’asilo
▻https://www.meltingpot.org/2024/06/carovana-abriendo-fronteras-2024-verso-i-balcani-contro-il-nuovo-patto-u

Abriendo Fronteras torna a ripercorrere le rotte insanguinate dei migranti. E lo farà attraversando il nord #Italia per dirigersi verso Bihać, nel cantone di Una-Sana in #Bosnia_ed_Erzegovina, toccando nel suo cammino tutte le più drammatiche realtà di una Europa i cui confini sono sempre di più un fronte militare. Proprio per superare questi confini, per aprire frontiere ed abbattere muri, la rete di Abriendo Fronteras si è costituita nel 2016, riunendo molte organizzazioni per i diritti e collettivi iberici e mettendo in movimento molte carovane di attiviste e attivisti, in collaborazione con associazioni come la torinese Carovane Migranti. 

#Notizie #Riccardo_Bottazzo #Solidarietà_e_attivismo #Spagna

Movement Ban Worsens Migrants’ Plight in #Serbia, #Bosnia-and-Herzegovina

▻https://balkaninsight.com/2020/04/09/movement-ban-worsens-migrants-plight-in-serbia-bosnia

Ivana Jeremic, Milica Stojanovic and Anja VladisavljevicBelgrade, Zagreb BIRN April 9, 202013:08

The complete ban of moving in and out of #camps imposed in the current pandemic has left those locked inside them feeling more isolated, frustrated and information-starved than ever.
Local and international #organisations that assist migrants and refugees are no longer able to enter reception centres in Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina due to the complete ban on movement in and out of the camps related to the #COVID-19 pandemic.

Besides leaving the people in the camps in a state of forced #isolation and inactivity, these organisations warn that it is also leading to a lack of information and support which, combined with the ban on movement, could lead to incidents.

Serbia imposed a state of quarantine on all its reception centres on March 17. Since then, people have not been allowed out of the centres unless it is to seek medical care, or with special permission. The ban works both ways, so no staff from rights organization can enter the facilities either.

It has left the migrants and asylum-seekers inside without support, help or information, the director of the #Belgrade -based NGO Asylum Protection Center, Rados Djurovic, said.

“Since the crisis began, for almost a month, access has been denied to anyone providing psychological, legal or other assistance, so they have no activities and are locked in the camps,” Djurovic told BIRN.

Instead, the camp inmates “receive information through social networks and by phone contact with some of us”, he added.

Media reports say at least two violent incidents have occurred in the last few days among migrants and asylum-seekers in centres in Serbia, one in #Krnjaca and the other in #Obrenovac, both in the wider area of Belgrade. Reports said #police and the #armée had to intervene to calm things down.

“The problem here is that these people have been quarantined (#quarantaine) for 24 hours a day for almost a month now,” Djurovic told BIRN. “These people are completely shut inside in all the centres … and they have needs that can hardly be met in this way, so it causes a lot of fear and … affects their psycho-physical condition,” he added.

The number of people affected by the quarantine measures in camps in Serbia is not small. On April 4, Serbia’s Commissariat for Refugees and Migrants said the camps in Serbia hosted a total of 8,703 persons.

Djurovic said the measures imposed or recommended for Serbian citizens, especially when it comes to social distancing, were clearly not being applied to migrants and asylum-seekers cooped up in close proximity to one another in camps.

“This is a group that is completely sidelined. Measures are being implemented for them that at first glance are the opposite of what our citizens are told, like [the need for] social distancing,” he said.

“Everyone is put in one basket here, they are secured under arms and do not get enough information or enough protection,” Djurovic told BIRN.

A video that BIRN has seen, sent by a person located in a centre in the town of Obrenovac, shows a lot of people waiting in a close line for food and then having their dinner in a crowded area. There is no social distancing.

Bosnia’s crowded camps have only got worse:

In neighbouring Bosnia and Herzegovina, the movement of migrants and refugees is also restricted as a result of the pandemic, creating additional problems in already overcrowded reception centres.

Bosnia’s #Una-SanaCanton, in the west of the country, near the border with EU-member Croatia, has been hardest hit by the migrant crisis, owing to the number of people piling up there, hoping to cross over into the EU.

On March 16, the Crisis Staff of the canton’s Health, Labour and Social Policy ministry ordered “a complete restriction on the movement of migrants outside the temporary centres”, which are estimated to hold about 2,000 persons.

“It is forbidden to transport migrants by any means of transport – train, bus, van, taxi, etc – to the Una-Sana Canton, or use transportation in the Una-Sana Canton. In addition … the entry of migrants on foot into the Una-Sana Canton is prohibited,” the authorities said.

IPSIA, an Italian NGO that has been working in Bosnia since 1997 and is helping migrants and refugees in the northwestern town of #Bihac, said it feared migrants camping in squats and improvised camps could end up living in even more dangerous conditions.

“The police in any case cannot monitor whether the migrants are respecting these measures because of the large number of people [staying] outside the camps,” IPSIA told BIRN.

“In general, the situation in the Bihac camps is not bad, even if it is somehow boring and sad, since many organizations cannot work inside them, as group activities and workshops can no longer be done,” it said.

“Many NGOs in the camps have had to suspend their activities in the field, but are still working at a distance –for example [by providing], legal or psychological support,” it added.

The #SarajevoCanton, which includes the Bosnian capital and various nearby towns and villages, has also imposed restrictions on the movement of migrants and ordered them into temporary reception centres.

On April 8, the #Sarajevo Cantonal police told the media that they were actively working to remove migrants from the streets to reduce the risk of the coronavirus spreading.

The canton’s Interior Ministry said the police would “carry out direct external security and checking of migrant centres in the Sarajevo Canton” and would “continue the activity of relocating migrants who may be found outside the reception centres”.

Can’t go out to buy food or tobacco:

The International Organization for Migration, #IOM, which manages temporary reception centres for migrants and refugees in Bosnia and Herzegovina, told BIRN it had so far found no cases of the coronavirus among the roughly 6,500 migrants held in them.

But IPSIA said that situation was “frustrating” for migrants and refugees due to restrictions on the “basic right of freedom of movement, even if at this moment nobody has so much freedom because of COVID-19”, because they “can’t go to buy the food they like or recharge phone credits or buy cigarettes”.

It said that the IOM had come up with a temporary solution for some camps in the area, such as #Miral, #Sedra and #Bira, however. Here, private companies (#compagniesprivées) are now bringing in food in vans and selling it to people for regular prices.

With the cooperation of the IOM, IPSIA volunteers are helping migrants and refugees in the Borici camp, located on the outskirts of Bihac, by buying supplies for them from the local supermarket.

The restrictions on the movement of migrants have also had one another side-effect. Few migrants in Bosnia can now run the gauntlet of trying to cross the nearby border into #Croatia – a process known locally among migrants and refugees as “The Game”.

#Zoltan_Kovacs sur twitter

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Hungary’s southern border fence has contributed immensely to reducing migration on the Western Balkans migration route since September 2015. Yet, @EU_Commission refuses to cover a fair portion of our extra defense costs. Here’s some data from @Frontex

▻https://twitter.com/zoltanspox/status/1168862668352040960
#Hongrie

Zoltán Kovács (born 1969) is a Hungarian historian and politician, who currently serves as Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Relations in the Second Cabinet of Viktor Orbán.

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#murs #propagande #Hongrie #frontières #asile #migrations #réfugiés

Les #statistiques ne disent pas tout...

Ma réponse :

Great! People who are by law allowed to ask for #asylum are now blocked in inhumane conditions in #Croatia & #Bosnia... or try to find new, more dangerous ways to cross the #borders.
#WallsDontWork, #walls are never the solution!

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ping @reka

Bosnia-Herzegovina gears up for vote amid political frustration htt...
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Bosnia-Herzegovina gears up for vote amid political frustration ▻https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/oct/04/bosnia-herzegovina-gears-up-for-vote-amid-political-frustration #Bosnia-Herzegovina #Serbia #Kosovo #Europe #Worldnews

Whose is this song?
A music documentary by Adela Peeva

in youtube:
▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoNfQjEFr2c

To buy it check here ▻http://adelamedia.net

#musique_traditionnelle #Balkans #bosnia #Grèce #Turquie #Bulgarie #serbie #ethnomusicologie #documentaire

SARAJEVOLUTION
▻https://vimeo.com/93628336

The heart of the film is the story of a building that used to be one of the symbols of the city, the #Vijećnica, the majestic building that housed the National and University Library. In 1992, it was hit with heavy artillery and incendiary bombs by Serbian military forces, that severely damaged it and consigned hundreds of thousands of books to the flames.

Sarajevolution captures the images of the recent process of reconstruction of the Vijećnica, left in ruins for more than 20 years, and looks further to explore its surroundings, vital, dynamic, and culturally alive: many people are busy studying, practicing and challenging existing cultural norms, often in original and provocative ways.

What Sarajevolution wishes to carry out is thus neither an excavation nor an autopsy of the cultural landscape of Sarajevo and #Bosnia and #Herzegovina. Instead, it aims to give back to the Vijećnica its originary function, by filling its empty shelves with contents and words taken from the people who inhabit that landscape. By addressing the ‘living library’ constituted by culture lovers, intellectuals, artists and performers, the documentary interrogates and engages critically with various forms of thinking and cultural practices. It does so with curiosity, passion and respect, and in the belief that only by constantly revolving around the axes of culture we can realise the evolution.

#Film #sarajevo #

Sir Philip Gibbs vient de commencer à tweeter la Première guerre mondiale en temps réel :
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Ça commence donc aujourd’hui :
▻https://twitter.com/SirPhilipGibbs/status/482819178358132736

Conflicting reports coming out of Sarajevo. Ferdinand and his wife have apparently cancelled plans to visit rest of city. #Bosnia #Austria

“#war_crimes are easy to talk about when they have been committed in #rwanda or #bosnia; less so in...”
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“War crimes are easy to talk about when they have been committed in Rwanda or Bosnia; less so...

#lebanon #Israel #israelis #army #tsahal #IDF #marwahin #2006 #sunnis

The Syrian Days Of Rage - English
Hague: #Syria is like 1990s #Bosnia ....and yet the world still watches ►http://ow.ly/btJ1w