Prime Minister of the Republic of Srpska Savo Minić stated that he was pleasantly surprised by his visit in Herzegovina and that he would continue to visit every local community to demonstrate the unity.

Summing up his visit to Herzegovina, Minić emphasized that the projects such as hydro power plant Buk Bijela, Trebinje airport and the gas pipeline were important and would create a driving force, but that an institutional struggle was being fought because of this.

"The Government will take it upon itself to increase the turnover of funds through a series of measures and shall not forget citizens and veteran groups", Minic told reporters before the government session in Trebinje.

Earlier today, the Prime Minister had spoken to the Mayor of Ljubinje who requested that the local hotel which could be use as a tourist facility, be transferred to the municipality, which was on the agenda of tonight's government session.

Minic stressed that one of the goals is to make the work of the government as transparent as possible and to that end, they started marking the government vehicles which in itself would not improve the standard of our citizens, but would contribute to raise the trust in the government.

"Wherever we go and do something, we want to have an epilogue and results", Minic emphasized. 

Minister Šeranić said that a series of meetings were held today as part of the visit of the Government of Republic of Srpska to Herzegovina. In Bileća, whcih is slowly getting on its feet in terms of financial consolidation, meetings with the Mayor of the municipality, the director of the Health Center and the director of the Center for Social Work were held. 

Minister Šeranić said that according to current dynamics of works, completion of a new hospital in Trebinje can be expected in mid-December and expressed expectations that a regional center for the education of nurses and technicians should be opened in Trebinje.

"The most important thing in the healthcare system is that young doctors who are completing their specializations will start working in Trebinje Hospital and Bileća Health Center. With the construction of this hospital, which was built entirely with the resources of the Republic of Srpska, we have come to a situation where we had 48 doctors specialists at the beginning of the construction, and upon completion there will be another 53, which is a total of 101 specialists", Minister Šeranić said. 

Minister of Transport and Communications Zoran Stevanović said that he visited several sites today with Prime Minister Minić and his associates.

"We also visited the settlement of Željuga where the rehabilitation of that road is most urgent", Minister Stevanović said adding that the project documentation is almost completed. 

"All that remains is a revision of the project, public procurement procedure and the contractor to start the works", Minister Stevanović said announcing that everything will be done to beging the works in spring and that the value of the project is around 12 million BAM.