NO RESHUFFLING OF EXECUTIVE AUTHORITY IN BOSNIA, FEDERATION

SARAJEVO, Nov 27 (Hina) - The parties making up Bosnia's ruling Alliance for Changes have fully supported the work of the Bosnian Council of Ministers and the government of the Croat-Muslim federation, expecting they will resume the reforms they have launched, a Bosnian official said on Tuesday. Kresimir Zubak, the president of the New Croat Initiative and current chairman of the Alliance, told reporters the presidents of the ten parties making up the Alliance on Monday dismissed the possibility of radically reshuffling executive bodies of authority on the state and federal level, supporting the incumbent ministers. The ruling coalition definitely agreed to appoint Ramo Malesa new federal interior minister. The appointment of the new refugees minister, replacing Sefer Halilovic, has been postponed. The Alliance for Changes has decided to urge the international community's High Representative in Bosnia, Wolfgang Petritsch, to pass a decision which will stop an endless debate on constitutional changes. Concrete proposals have not been forwarded, but it is expected Petritsch will be requested to pass a decision on the establishment of the House of Peoples in the Bosnian Serb parliament too. This request by the Croat and Muslim sides has been strongly objected to by the Serb political parties, which has virtually brought to a standstill the implementation of a Bosnian Constitutional Court decision stipulating that all three peoples are constituent throughout Bosnia's territory. (hina) ha sb