Public Announcement for the Text of the National Hymn of Bosnia and Herzegovina



June 16, 2008 – Public Announcement for the text of the National Hymn of Bosnia and Herzegovina will be published during this week. The conditions and text of the Public Announcement were established at the Constitutional Session of the Commission for Selection of Text for the Hymn, consisted of members of the Parliament, acknowledged writers and music author.

All citizens of B&H have a right to compete, and text for the music of the hymn by author Dušan Šestić has to be written in one of the official languages in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Works have to be delivered under code and Commission can suggest to the authors certain changes and supplements to the text.

At the first session of the Commission for Selection of Hymn, Dr. Hilmo Neimarlija, Member of the House of Peoples of the Parliamentary Assembly of Bosnia and Herzegovina, has been selected for the President of the Commission, and Mr. Martin Raguž, Member of the House of Representatives of the Parliamentary Assembly of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Mr. Ranko Risojević, Director of the National and University Library of the Republic of Srpska, for Deputies.

The task of the Commission for the Selection of Text for the Hymn is to select the most successful candidate and to propose the selected text for the National Hymn of Bosnia and Herzegovina.  The selected work will be awarded by 30.000 KM.

The deadline for the application is October 1, 2008.

All interested citizens are invited to apply for the public announcement and to give their proposal for the text of the future representative song of Bosnia and Herzegovina.