Saša Magazinović, a member of the House of Representatives and a member of the PA BiH Delegation to PACE, addressed the participants of the plenary session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe in Strasbourg.

Member of the House of Representatives of the Parliamentary Assembly of Bosnia and Herzegovina (PA BiH) and member of the PA BiH Delegation of Bosnia and Herzegovina in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), Saša Magazinović addressed the plenary session of this body, which is held in Strasbourg. Magazinović, on behalf of the Group of Socialists, Democrats and Greens (SOC), the largest political group in this parliament, spoke about the report on the topic "Implementation of judgments of the European Court of Human Rights".

In his presentation, Magazinović emphasized that, when talking about the implementation of the judgments of the European Court of Human Rights, then at the same time we are talking about the values around which the member states of the Council of Europe have gathered. Magazinović warned that if the insistence on compliance with court verdicts is abandoned, those values have been abandoned.

He added that the judgments of the European Court of Human Rights throughout the history of its activity have led to significant social and legal changes in the member countries, and that this institution is a shelter for the disempowered and an important corrective factor for the democracies of the member countries of the Council of Europe.

Magazinović called on deputies from all member states of the Council of Europe to support the report and recommendations and not to close their eyes to the fact that there are states that have not implemented the judgments of this court for many years. At the end of the presentation, he said that PACE members must not lose sight of the fact that the fight for the preservation and improvement of human rights never ends, and that representatives of the delegations of all member states are important guardians of those rights.   

"I am honoured by the confidence shown to me to speak on behalf of the largest political group at the plenary session. It is difficult to speak and criticize others who do not implement judgments when you come from a country that itself does not implement the judgments of the European Court of Human Rights. I myself am one of the discriminated citizens of Bosnia and Herzegovina who was deprived of the right to run for the Presidency of BiH and the House of Peoples of the PA BiH. The fact that there are numerous countries that do not fulfil their obligations to the Court, led by Turkey, Romania, Hungary, Azerbaijan and Russia, should not be an alibi for Bosnia and Herzegovina, which 14 years after the verdict in the case 'Sejdić and Finns v. Bosnia and Herzegovina' did not provide its citizens with the right to run for office," Magazinović said. (end)