SARAJEVO, March 22 (Hina) - The chairman of Bosnia-Herzegovina's Council of Ministers, Adnan Terzic, has said that the Bosnian government will no longer unilaterally postpone the implementation of free trade agreements with
neighbouring countries, but that it will try to find a solution to problems of domestic farmers through bilateral negotiations with the countries that Sarajevo signed the said agreements with.
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SARAJEVO, March 22 (Hina) - The chairman of Bosnia-Herzegovina's
Council of Ministers, Adnan Terzic, has said that the Bosnian
government will no longer unilaterally postpone the implementation of
free trade agreements with neighbouring countries, but that it will
try to find a solution to problems of domestic farmers through
bilateral negotiations with the countries that Sarajevo signed the
said agreements with. #L#
"We can no longer bring into question the implementation of such
agreements by making unilateral moves. What we can do is try to find
the solution through bilateral negotiations," Terzic said in Sarajevo
on Monday after he talked to representatives of farmers who staged a
protest rally in front of parliament in the Bosnian capital earlier in
the day.
At the end of 2003, the Council of Ministers - the country's
government - passed a decision at farmers' request to postpone the
application of the said free trade agreements for three months.
The protesters now insist that amendments to the law on tariffs for
imported goods be adopted by the end of this month and that the
implementation of the Bosnian-Croatian free trade agreement as well as
of such agreement Bosnian concluded with Serbia-Montenegro be
postponed by the end of this year.
The leader of the Bosnian farmers' association, Ranko Bakic, said he
was disappointed with the ministerial council's position that it could
no longer delay the implementation of the bilateral agreements.
(Hina) ms