On this day, November 25, 1943, the thousand-year statehood of Bosnia and Herzegovina was restored and confirmed by the Resolution of ZAVNOBiH at the Constituent Assembly of the State Anti-Fascist Council for the People’s Liberation of Bosnia and Herzegovina. and confirmed by AVNOJ, and reborn!
In the war horrors of the Second World War, when the multi-ethnic resistance movement opposes the Nazi-fascist-nationalist occupiers, traitors and their local allies – the Five Columnists in the small mountain town of Mrkonjić Grad, formerly known as Varcar Vakuf, gathered at the Founding Assembly of the State Anti-Fascist Council of People’s Liberation. of Bosnia and Herzegovina (ZAVNOBiH) to express the will of the great majority of the people of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
ZAVNOBiH restored the statehood of Bosnia and Herzegovina, confirmed its historical, political and state-legal individuality and established the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
With its Resolution at the Constituent Assembly and the Proclamation of the People of Bosnia and Herzegovina on the night of November 25-26, 1943, ZAVNOBiH restored the statehood of Bosnia and Herzegovina, confirmed its historical and political and state-legal individuality and established the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, which the most relevant legacy of the anti-fascist war.
On that occasion, it was stated that the peoples of Bosnia and Herzegovina “want their country, which is neither a Serb, nor a Croat, nor a Bosniak, but a Serb, Croat and Bosniak state, to be free and united, in which there is full equality of Serbs, Bosniaks, Croats and of other peoples, nationalities, citizens”, and that everyone in Bosnia and Herzegovina will participate equally with the other peoples of Yugoslavia in building a common future.
The founding assembly of ZAVNOBiH was attended by 247 delegates from all parts of Bosnia and Herzegovina who elected the Presidency, which consists of 31 members, and the president was Vojislav Kecmanović, doctor of medicine from Bijeljina. The Presidency of ZAVNOBiH performed its functions between sessions, as the highest political authority in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
ZAVNOBiH and its activities from 1943 to April 1945. The year is one of the most important events in the history of Bosnia and Herzegovina. With its Resolution at the Constituent Assembly and Proclamation to the Nations in Bosnia and Herzegovina on the night of 25/26 November 1943. Year The Assembly of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina at its session on February 28, 1995 passed a law declaring November 25 as Statehood Day, while the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina at its session on March 6, 1995 passed a decision on the promulgation of the Law on Proclaiming 25. November for National Day. The new Constitution of Bosnia and Herzegovina from November 1995 inherited all previous laws of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina that do not contradict it, including the law on Statehood Day.
