SARAJEVO, Jan 6 (Hina) - At the start of 2004 three Bosnian citizens came at the helm of the institution of the national ombudsmen, which was set up in 1996 under the Dayton peace accords and since then was led foreigners.
SARAJEVO, Jan 6 (Hina) - At the start of 2004 three Bosnian citizens
came at the helm of the institution of the national ombudsmen, which
was set up in 1996 under the Dayton peace accords and since then was
led foreigners.#L#
Three Bosnian legal experts, Mariofil Ljubic, Snezana Savic and Safet
Pasic replaced Frank Orton who was in charge of the Office of the
Ombudsman by 31 December 2003, the office said in a press release on
Tuesday.
Ljubic representing the Croat people, Pasic from the ranks of the
Bosnian Muslim (Bosniak) people and Savic from the ranks of the Serb
people were nominated by Bosnia-Herzegovina's collective presidency in
October 2003 in compliance with criteria that three ombudsmen should
represent three constituent peoples.
Ljubic, a former senior official of the Croatian Democratic Union
(HDZ), used to be the Croat-Muslim entity's parliament's head. Savic
was a judge of Bosnia-Herzegovina's Constitutional Court. Pasic was a
senior official in institution of the Croat-Muslim federation.
With the start of the new year, the House of Human Rights, the supreme
judicial body in charge of the protection of human rights established
also under the Dayton agreement, ceased to function.
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