Mladen Ivanic, the Serb member of the BiH Presidency, told press that the Republika Srpska statistical agency should publish its own version of the results of the 2013 census. He also said that RS officials in the BiH statistical agency, which decided earlier this month to publish census results unilaterally, without agreement on methodology from the two entities, should withdraw from their positions.
It is obvious that the representatives from the Federation of BiH have continued the policy of outvoting and that no one takes it seriously that the only stable future for BiH in the long run is to achieve compromise, because outvoting will not yield any results,” Mladen Ivanic told Srna commenting on the outcome of the Wednesday’s emergency session of the House of Representatives of the BiH Parliamentary Assembly regarding the census.
He believes that it is now time to execute the conclusion reached between him and Srpska President Milorad Dodik in Banjaluka.
”I think that the representatives of the Srpska Statistics Institute from Banjaluka and the key Srpska representatives in the BiH Agency for Statistics should no longer give legitimacy to the census results with their presence,” said the Serb member of the BiH Presidency.
Though often at odds on other issues, Ivanic and RS president Milorad Dodik are in accord on the issue of the census.
