As part of the celebration of BiH Statehood Day in the UK, we had the honor of hosting BH diaspora activists from the Netherlands, Germany, Italy, representatives of the “Woman with a Book” association, the RVI Diaspora Alliance based in Munich, and Radio BH Diaspora.
Dear friends had the opportunity to learn first-hand about the activities and achievements of the BH UK Network as well as the creation and development of the World Federation of the BiH Diaspora; meet and talk with H.E. Osman Topčagić, Ambassador
in
; King Charles III’s Envoy for the West Midlands, Lieutenant Derrick Anderson; Chairman of the organization “Remembering Srebrenica” and Patron of the BH UK Network, Dr. Wagar Azmi OBE; Minister Associate at the BiH Embassy in London, Ms. Jasmina Sarajlić; Advisor to the Chair of the Academic Board of the BH UK Network, Dr. Kim Sadique, and other distinguished guests and friends of our Alliance and homeland.
Guests from the diaspora also visited the Mayor of Birmingham, Cllr Ken Wood, and learned about BH UK Network’s outstanding cooperation with local, regional and national levels of government.
Such and similar meetings of representatives of the BiH diaspora with the aim of exchanging experiences were one of the many activities of the World Federation of the BiH Diaspora. Unfortunately, these and many other activities of the Federation were destroyed by Hasan Šehović, who has been presenting himself as the president of the World Federation of the BiH Diaspora for 10-15 years, even though the same Federation has not existed in practice for years. Mr. Šehović reduced the once respectable World Federation of the BiH Diaspora to a football tournament.
Guests:
Hajrudin Isović, president of the RVI Diaspora, Hamdija Draganović, president of the Platforma BiH (umbrella organization of BiH associations in the Netherlands), Aida Olujić and Željko Javor (Platforma BiH – Netherlands), Amir Grabić, president of the BiH Youth in the Netherlands, Enisa Bukvić (Italy), BiH writer and chairwoman of the association “Woman with a Book”, Naida Ribić, editor-in-chief of Radio BH Diaspora based in the Netherlands, as well as our artists from the homeland Elvir Solak and opera singer of the National Theater in Sarajevo Lejle Jusić.









