Governor Nicholl Denied Prime Minister Terzic

The Governor of the Central Bank of Bosnia and Herzegovina (CBBiH) Peter Nicholl denied statement of the Chairman of the BH Council of Ministers Adnan Terzić reported by ”Dnevni avaz” according to which the Commission for the appointment of Director of the BH Statistics Agency led by the Governor Nicholl did not nominate any Serb candidate.

According to Sarajevo daily newspaper ”Dnevni avaz” Prime Minister Terzić as an example of the slow implementation of reforms mentioned a problem of long delay in the appointments of Director of the BH Statistics Agency. According to the Prime Minister Terzic there is no political support of the Serbs ministers which requests that Director or Deputy Director of the Agency should be a Serb nationality and the Commission for appointment of the Agency Director led by Governor Nicholl did not nominate any Serb candidate.

Governor Nicholl emphasizes that the statement of the Prime Minister is incorrect regarding two important respects. First, the Civil Service Law does not permit Civil Service Agency Commission to taker into account the ethnicity of the candidates. The Commission has to judge the candidates on their capacities to do the job and make recommendations to the BH Council of Ministers on that basis. That is what the Commission did, we followed the Law, the Governor said.

But in this case the Commission recommended four people for Director and Deputy Director of the BH Statistics Agency. Two of those four proposed persons were Serbs.

”So, Mr. Terzić has been misinformed and Commission that I chaired can not be blamed for delay in making these appointments”, governor said.