On 6 February 2018, a meeting was held between the representatives of the Ministry of Security of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Office of the Service for Foreigners\u2019 Affairs (SFA) and UNHCR Representation in Bosnia and Herzegovina at the Service\u2019s premises.<\/p>\n
SFA\u2019s Director, Mr. Slobodan Uji\u0107, UNHCR Deputy Representative for SE Europe Ms. Francesca Bonelli and UNHCR in BiH Senior Protection Officer, Ms. Stephanie Woldenberg exchanged information on the current situation of increased number of asylum seekers in Bosnia and Herzegovina and assessed current needs for strengthening of SFA capacities to perform the tasks within its competence.<\/p>\n
Reiterating ongoing UNHCR support to SFA, including the donation valued at some 16.000 BAM, Bonelli stated: \u201cUNHCR recognizes the importance of SFA\u2019s role in referring asylum seekers to the Asylum process in BiH, and has enjoyed excellent partnership over the years together with other actors in the asylum procedure to help many people in need of international protection.\u00a0 While the majority of UNHCR\u2019s support relates to training and capacity building, today we are glad to extend support to the Service for Foreigners\u2019 Affairs with ICT and office equipment, which will assist them in their work, including on behalf of asylum seekers\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
On 6 February 2018, a meeting was held between the representatives of the Ministry of Security of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Office of the Service for Foreigners\u2019 Affairs (SFA) and UNHCR Representation in Bosnia and Herzegovina at the Service\u2019s premises. SFA\u2019s Director, Mr. Slobodan Uji\u0107, UNHCR Deputy Representative for SE Europe Ms. Francesca Bonelli and UNHCR in BiH Senior Protection Officer, Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4956,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[94],"class_list":["post-4966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-saopstenja","tag-sps","cat-69-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sps.gov.ba\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sps.gov.ba\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sps.gov.ba\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sps.gov.ba\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sps.gov.ba\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4966"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sps.gov.ba\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4967,"href":"https:\/\/sps.gov.ba\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4966\/revisions\/4967"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sps.gov.ba\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sps.gov.ba\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sps.gov.ba\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sps.gov.ba\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}