Bratunac - Ljubovija Border Crossing as a Tool for Defending Veliki Žep

Resolving property-legal relations and the construction of the joint interstate border crossing Bratunac – Ljubovija, according to the idea of Dodik and Čović, should look like this:

In some small notary office in Bratunac, the Prime Minister of the RS Government Željka Cvijanović and the Chairman of the Council of Ministers of Bosnia and Herzegovina Denis Zvizdić sign a notarial agreement by which the RS grants Bosnia and Herzegovina the land for the construction of the interstate border crossing Serbia – BiH for a 50-year use.

According to Miro Džakula, this is exactly how the announced construction of this first-category crossing should look.

It will neither look like that, nor will the crossing be built according to such a pattern.

On the wings of the Veliki Žep political logic, Milorad Dodik has offered a cuckoo's egg to the state of Bosnia and Herzegovina in the case of the Bratunac – Ljubovija border crossing. With the intention of compromising the Constitutional Court's ruling in the Veliki Žep case, and with the aim of quietly obstructing its implementation, an attempt is being made to impose the thesis that the territory of the RS entity is equivalent to ownership of that territory. Thus, this logic attempts to impose that the owner of the land is the entity, not the state. The entity cedes the land to the state, but only for use.

This constitutional forgery attempts to legalize alienated state property, whose value only in the BiH entity of the RS is estimated at hundreds of millions of KM.

Invoking the RS Law on Real Rights is merely an ugly forgery.

In the case of the Bratunac - Ljubovija border crossing, it cannot be about a concession right of Bosnia and Herzegovina for a period of 50 years. Here, one can speak exclusively of the unity of ownership of the land and the real estate that will be built on that land. By the letter of the law, both the real estate and the land must be registered to the same titleholder, i.e., the state of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Given that this is an interstate crossing, it is clear that by respecting state subjectivity, integrity, and sovereignty, the entire real estate of the border crossing can only be registered to the state of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Milorad Dodik's petty ruse is aimed at attempting to "cheapen" the Constitutional Court's ruling in the Veliki Žep case, and as things stand, it will last exactly as long as yesterday.

If anyone was unclear about Dragan Čović's silence in the Veliki Žep case, that is no longer the case.

The HDZ party joystick Miro Džakula, director of the Indirect Taxation Authority of BiH, in quite predictable coordination with party boss Dragan Čović, by supporting the "notarial methodology" for resolving the right to use land, is in fact blowing wind into the sails of the Čović – Dodik strategic partnership. It is precisely this logic that creates the possibility only for the use of military property on the territory of the RS, but challenges the adjudicated state ownership.

There is no doubt that Dodik, in the process of obstructing the implementation of the Constitutional Court's ruling, will have a loyal and devoted ally in the politics of Dragan Čović and his henchmen tailored to Miro Džakula.

P.S. It is no coincidence that Džakula's statement coincides with the session of the Main Board of the HNS. Džakula's statement hints at the content of crossing the Rubicon and the announcement of a new political paradigm of the HDZ.

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