B&H Foreign Minister Bisera Turković continues to honor the public with meaningless and diplomatically scandalous statements, demonstrating a wide range of ignorance and insults to common sense.

Bisera's last statement is related to the dissatisfaction with Aleksandar Vučić's visit to Bosnia and Herzegovina and the donation of 10,000 doses of the FB&H "AstraZeneca" vaccine, when she claimed that these vaccines were not approved for EU countries and that they were intended for poor countries.

False claims

- I asked that the vaccine is not used until the consent of the Drug Agency in B&H is obtained, because this vaccine does not have the consent in the EU or the USA - said Turković.

She further pointed out that this vaccine in question is produced in India, under the license of "AstraZeneca".

- It is a very affordable vaccine, which is mostly used in poor countries, such as the Dominican Republic and similar countires. Hence, very cheap and very affordable and not licensed for use in the EU. That is why my condition was that it should be checked at the Agency - said Turković.

The main problem with such claims by Turković is that they are not true. When it comes to the Indian vaccine "Covishiel", it is the same as adenovirus vaccine from the company "AstraZeneca / Oxford", but produced by the Serum Institute in India. In mid-February, the World Health Organization (WHO) approved two more variants of the AstraZeneca vaccine for emergency use. One version is produced by AstraZeneca - SKBio in the Republic of Korea, and the other at the Serum Institute in India.

Both vaccines were included in the emergency list, after the WHO assessed safety, quality and efficacy data. Essentially, these are medical products that have the same specifications, composition and method of production as the vaccine produced by "AstraZeneca" in Europe.

This information was confirmed for "Avaz" by the assistant director for drug control in the Agency for Medicines of B&H, Alija Uzunović, who said that it is the same vaccine from "Oxford".

- They are produced by one company, only the branding of the products is different. But the same is done with other products in the world. The information that you have, we also have, there is no difference between the two vaccines, which was confirmed by Mirza Palo from the Office of the World Health Organization (WHO) in B&H. By the way, we received that information from the WHO - Uzunović emphasized.

Due to her false statement, Turković risks ultimately causing material and diplomatic damage to Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Namely, Almir Badnjević, director of "Verlab", revealed that he received information from the management of "AstraZeneca" that this company is considering a lawsuit against our state due to unfounded statements and insults of their vaccine, which, he points out, was a great insult to them.

At the time Turković stated this, the EU was considering to approve these vaccines.

Let us remind you, the last "outburst" of Turković comes as just another one in a series by which the Minister offends the public and demonstrates lavish ignorance and lack of basic feeling for the situation in which the majority of B&H citizens currently finds themselves.

Vehicle fleet

She recently, answering the question why B&H does not have vaccines, Turković made a scandalous statement, saying that "after the story about respirators, no one would have the courage to enter the process of private procurement of vaccines." Somewhere along the way, at times when citizens are dying from the coronavirus, the health care system is in chaos, and thousands of small businesses are closing their doors, Turković complained about her vehicle fleet at the Ministry and asked them to buy her a jeep.

It should be reminded that Turković sent her son to work in the B&H Embassy in Qatar, and when asked by journalists whether she was embarrassed that she had hired her son, she replied:

-What now, that our children are not allowed to work in state agencies.

Turković also made it known to the public that her son Alija was "her baby", even though the baby is 40 years old. When asked about a number of houses and real estate she owns around the world, from Zagreb to Australia, Turkovic answered:

- Those are small, small, "tiny" houses.

Wrong respirators

Also, is there any need to remind about the famous gaffe, when Turković announced the ceremony of taking over the respirators from the United Arab Emirates as a donation for B&H, which in the end turned out to be only in transit through our country and that they are intended for Montenegro.

Of course, this is only a part of the countless nebulous, rude and absurd statements that Turković gives in almost every public appearance, because all of them would require a thick book, and not a single journalistic text.