SARAJEVO, Oct 6 (Hina) - The international community's High Representative to Bosnia-Herzegovina, Paddy Ashdown, on Sunday appointed the director and two deputies of the director of the recently established Agency for Information and
Security (SIPA), the central Bosnian intelligence service.
SARAJEVO, Oct 6 (Hina) - The international community's High
Representative to Bosnia-Herzegovina, Paddy Ashdown, on Sunday
appointed the director and two deputies of the director of the
recently established Agency for Information and Security (SIPA),
the central Bosnian intelligence service. #L#
According to a statement released from the Office of the High
Representative (OHR), Ashdown decided on the appointments after
the country's authorities failed to agree on who would be at the
helm of the SIPA.
The first director of the SIPA will be Sredoje Novic, a former
interior minister of the Bosnian Serb entity during the Milorad
Dodik Cabinet.
His two deputies are Emir Bijedic (Muslim, i.e. Bosniak) and Dragan
Lukac (a Croat), who has so far been the acting head of the police
administration in the Federation's interior ministry.
The term of office of the SIPA director is six years, and the above-
mentioned three officials will rotate in the office of the director
every two years.
(hina) ms