Dnevni avaz: Yesterday, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has not officially declared on statements of the Federal Minister of Finances, Vjekoslav Bevanda that the Intervention law will be changed and planned reduction of allocations for war veterans, civil disabled and civil war victims abolished.
But, as it has unofficially been said from the IMF, chief of the Department of this institution for BiH, Costas Christou has been in constant contacts with representatives of BiH yesterday, but besides that, this change, as it has been warned, will demand additional consultations.
Therefore, as we have been told, on Monday already, Christou should meet with Bevanda in Vienna and try to solve this situation.
The problem is, as we find out, in the intention letter, which BiH has recently sent to the IMF, which states that the law with regulations, which stipulate reduction of remunerations for war veterans and social categories, will be adopted. But, the letter, whose content has been agreed and which has been sent to Washington, cannot be changed.
Basically, the IMF is not against changes requested by war veteran population unless the frame of saving of 414 million KM does not change, but the problem is in the fact that this happens now and the fact that it "opens new procedures".
– If it comes to those changes, we will have to deliberate the Fiscal Council of BiH as well, and the question is if it now reopens the negotiations on something what has already been agreed – we have been told yesterday by an IMF source.