Meeting with the Mayor of Jajce Municipality and Chairman of BIH Commission to preserve national monuments

Sarajevo, 24 September 2008

Mr.sci. Salko Obhodjas, Minister of the Federal Ministry of Physical Planning  has  attended today’s meeting with Mr.Nisvet Hrnjic, the Mayor of Jajce Municipality and Prof.dr.  Dubravko Lovrenovic, Chairman of BIH Commission to preserve national monuments.
Mayor Hrnjic and Prof.dr Lovrenovic  have informed the Minister of the Federal Ministry of Phyisical Planning about visit  of  ICOMOS Delegation to Jajce, relating to the proposal of inscription of the City of Jajce on the World Heritage List. The issue of rehabilitation and protection from further deterioration of the historical site: medieval fort of Jajce and the Sarach House (Finance Building)  was addressed during the respective meeting.

Based on the signed Contract with Jajce Municipality, the Federal Ministry of Physical Planning will  co finance rehabilitation and protection from further deterioration of the historical site: medieval fort of Jajce  with an amount of 264,000.000 KM , while 88,000.00 KM will be provided for rehabilitation and protection from further deterioration of the historical site: the Sarach House( Finance Building).
The participants of the meeting emphasized the importance of the protection, rehabilitation and reconstruction of the cultural and architectural heritage in Bosnia and Herzegovina and BIH Federation Government’s efforts to protect national monuments from further deterioration.
During the meeting, the cooperation between the Federal Ministry of Physical Planning, the Commission to preserve national monuments and Jajce Municipality was discussed  to meet conditions for inscription of Jajce on the World Heritage List.