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PM says Bosnia won't join CEFTA without concessions from Croatia, Serbia

SARAJEVO, Nov 5 (Hina) - The chairman of Bosnia and Herzegovina's Council of Ministers, Adnan Terzic, has announced that his country will not join the Central European Free Trade Agreement unless Croatia and Serbia agree to correct unfavourable provisions from existing free trade agreements with Bosnia.
SARAJEVO, Nov 5 (Hina) - The chairman of Bosnia and Herzegovina's Council of Ministers, Adnan Terzic, has announced that his country will not join the Central European Free Trade Agreement unless Croatia and Serbia agree to correct unfavourable provisions from existing free trade agreements with Bosnia.

In a statement carried by Dnevni Avaz daily on Sunday, Terzic said the head of the Bosnian team negotiating accession to CEFTA, Anton Rill, was instructed not to sign anything until Croatia and Serbia corrected provisions which Bosnia considered damaging, primarily to its agricultural manufacturers.

Bosnia practically wants its two neighbours to suspend parts of the free trade agreements on the tariff-free import of some food products.

The European Commission and the Stability Pact for South Eastern Europe have proposed that the 31 existing free trade agreements be replaced with a single document which would be signed by 10 states from this part of Europe.

The initialling of such an agreement has been announced for November 9.

Commenting on Terzic's statement, Rill, Bosnia's deputy foreign minister, said Bosnia was closer to obtaining the concessions it wanted from Croatia and Serbia.

"With Croatia we have already signed minutes expressing readiness that the two sides agree before the initialling of the CEFTA framework agreement so that by 2010 Bosnia could be entitled to protect domestic agricultural products. Croatia understands us and I believe it will agree," said Rill.

He said the situation with Serbia was somewhat more difficult because Belgrade wanted Sarajevo to make concessions regarding the import of tobacco and tobacco products in Bosnia.

Tobacco, tobacco products and oil are an issue also in regulating Croatia-Serbia trade relations.

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