FIET Project in Bosnia and Herzegovina
23 January 1999

FIET Trade Union Solidarity Project in Bosnia and Herzegovina
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The FIET Trade Union Solidarity Project in Bosnia and Herzegovina

The project in pictures

1996 to 1998

Page Two: People in the project

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Mersiha Besirovic and Alex Rüdig at the temporary bridge that has been constructed in Mostar, at the place where the Stari Most was blown up. Mersiha is the deputy project director for activities. Alex Rüdig, the project director continues in this function also in 1999, spending part of her time in germany and part in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

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Bookkeeping in the FIET Sarajevo project office. Jan Furstenborg of FIET, Nerma Arnautovic, deputy project director for administration and Selma Tabakovic, finance officer and bookkeeper.

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Discussing the renovation of Dom Sindikata with the Confederation president. Mersiha Besirovic, FIET deputy project director, Suleiman Hrle, president of the TUC of BiH, Martin Steen, HK Norway, Kari Nöst, HK Norway and Sture Arntzen, president of HK Norway and the FIET Project Committee.
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Bogdan Davidovid, president of the Commerce and Tourism Trade Union of the Serb Republic and Jan Furstenborg of FIET, at a board meeting in Laktashi.

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Lars Rasmussen, president of the Norwegian Insurance Employees Union FL is being interviewed by TV 99 in Sarajevo, together with Alex Rüdig.

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Magnus Neuberg, deputy general secretary of the Swedish Finance Workers Trade Union, in Sarajevo,  together with Jan Furstenborg of FIET.

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Alex Rüdig signed the rental agreement for a small trade union centre in Mrkonjic grad in the Serb republic. She was joined by Koviljka Filipovic, president of the Finance Workers Trade Union of the Serb Republic.

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Fuad Sahacic, president of the Finance Workers Trade Union of Bosnia and Herzegovina, showed his town Sarajevo to a delegation from the Nordic Finance Workers' Union NFU. Here with Magnus Neuberg, deputy general secretary of Sweden's finance trade union, Alex Rüdig, Jan-Erik Lidström, general secretary of NFU and Christina Holmlund, president of the Finnish finance workers' union.

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The whole national council of HK Norway, the project's principal supporter, held its meeting in the Dom Sindikata in Sarajevo, in October 1998. Soon after the meeting, a Norwegian trade union project was launched and a renovation of the destroyed premises got under way.

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At a meeting in Laktashi in January 1998, the executive board of the Commerce and Tourism Trade Union of the Serb  Republic decided to participate in the Commercial Workers Coordinating Committee of Bosnia and Herzegovina. This was the first joint trade union structure established after the war.

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FIET project workers enjoy the sun in Mrkonjic grad, together with Koviljka Filipovic, president of the finance workers' trade union of the Serb Republic. From left: Kovilja Filipovic, Nathalia Djukic, FIET project office in Laktashi, Vesna Kliska, FIET project office in Banja Luka and Alex Rüdig, project director.

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It is not always work, except for Hasan Kovac perhaps when he invitesfriends from home and abroad to one of his famous barbecues. The president of the Commerce Trade Union of Bosnia and Herzegovina has been a project partner from the very beginning.