Council of Ministers of BiH Allocates Funds for Flood-Affected Areas: Most Money to Jablanica and Konjic

(Patria) - The Council of Ministers of BiH unanimously adopted a Decision on the allocation of international aid funds to flood-affected areas in Bosnia and Herzegovina from donated funds recorded on the Single Treasury Account of Bosnia and Herzegovina, prepared by the Ministry of Security.

The funds, totaling 20,397,017.38 KM, were received as donations from the Government of the Republic of Croatia (19,558,300.00 KM), the Government of Kosovo (390,944.99 KM), the Embassy of the People's Republic of China (10,000 KM), the Embassy of the Republic of Azerbaijan (391,166 KM), and employees of BiH institutions (46,606.39 KM).

The criteria for the distribution of aid, in accordance with the conclusion of the 61st session of the Council of Ministers of BiH, include: the number of households affected by floods, the number of damaged residential, commercial and other facilities, the urgency of interventions, the length of damaged local, regional and main road infrastructure and bridges, the affected area of local riverbeds and canals, and the amount of estimated damage to other public utility infrastructure.

When approving the funds, the priority needs of the affected residents of local communities were taken into account, in order to ensure effective and fair assistance in remedying the consequences of the floods.

The funds were allocated to the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina 1,063,617.36 KM (5.21%), the Herzegovina-Neretva Canton 2,759,259.35 KM (13.53%), the Central Bosnia Canton 1,031,159.53 KM (5.06%), the cities of Mostar 341,323.08 KM (1.61%) and Konjic 4,400,726.24 KM (21.58%), and eight municipalities: Fojnica 1,837,064.36 KM (9.01%), Kiseljak 1,716,664.58 KM (8.42%), Kreševo 2,296,208.86 KM (11.26%), Jablanica 4,774,154.63 KM (23.41%), Vareš 74,137.41 KM (0.36%), Drvar 26,454.02 KM (0.13%), Visoko 66,135.07 KM (0.32%) and Breza 10,112.89 KM (0.05%).

The Ministry of Security will carry out the distribution of each subsequent donation, i.e., funds collected in this account, in accordance with these percentages. The end users of these funds, after the implementation of projects, are obliged to submit a report on the expenditure of funds to the Ministry of Security of BiH.