Letter of the CNAB to the members of the Bosnian Canadian Parliamentary Friendship Group

Institute for the Research of Genocide Canada
Published: December 12, 2011  

12. decembar 2011

Bosnian Canadian Parliamentary Friendship Group

To the members of the Canadian Parliament and the Parliamentary Friendship Group

I would like to thank you for this important step in joining the first friendship group aimed at supporting the interests of Bosnia and Herzegovina in Canadian parliament.  We hope that you will reach your goal of increasing the number of members from 26 to 50 very shortly, and offer our support.

As one of the first countries to recognize Bosnia and Herzegovina, Canada has always offered its support to Bosnia and its people on their path to civil democracy.  Our hope is that the members of the Parliamentary Friendship Group will advocate for Bosnian interests in order to protect the rights of Bosnian-Canadians as well as help protect civil rights of Bosnians in their home country at this crucial moment when the pressure from the West is much needed to steer the country’s political elite in the right direction: direction of a progressive, civil, democratic society that guarantees same rights to all its members.

Again, I thank you for showing support to Bosnia and Herzegovina in such an important way, and I wish you great success in your newly established Parliamentary Friendship Group.  Let this letter of support serve you as a clear sign that the Congress of North American Bosniaks and its Canadian and United States chapters stand beside you in this effort to strengthen democratic changes in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Sincerely,

Haris Alibašić

President of the Congress of North American Bosniaks (CNAB)

Letter of the CNAB to the members of the Bosnian-Canadian-Parliamentary-Friendship-Group