Bosnia and Herzegovina’s Defense Minister, Zukan Helez, announced that the country has sky surveillance for the first time in its history. Helez stated that the Ministry of Defence fully monitors every plane entering the country and is in the last stages of an agreement with the United States to acquire two primary radars to scour the entire sky.
BiH Minister of Transport and Communications, Edin Forto, criticised Smajić and others for not clarifying the distinction between civil and military control of the sky. Forto stated that the civilian agency, BHANSA, has been exchanging information with the Armed Forces for the first time, starting yesterday. Forto also noted that civilian control is a matter coordinated with Eurokontrol in Brussels. BHANSA, an independent agency, plans to invest a minimum of 15 million BAM in additional radar infrastructure over the next three to five years to cover the sky and address areas currently covered by neighbouring radars.
