MOSTAR MOSTAR, July 12 (Hina) - A document expressing the determination to create united, self-sustained and multi-ethnic administration of the city of Mostar was signed on Wednesday by European Union countries' ambassadors to
Bosnia-Herzegovina, Mostar Mayor and Deputy Mayor and heads of the six municipalities in the area of Mostar. EU officials, led by French Ambassador Bernard Bajolet, Swedish Ambassador Nils Eliasson and an EU ambassador, Thomas Peyker, Mostar Mayor and Deputy Mayor, Safet Orucevic and Neven Tomic respectively, and the six municipal mayors discussed possibilities of promotion of the implementation of the Dayton Peace Accords and further steps to be made to the benefit of this southern city. After the talks, French diplomat Bajolet told a news conference that signatories to the Mostar document expressed their resoluteness to help create united, self-sustained and multiethnic authorities of
MOSTAR, July 12 (Hina) - A document expressing the determination to
create united, self-sustained and multi-ethnic administration of
the city of Mostar was signed on Wednesday by European Union
countries' ambassadors to Bosnia-Herzegovina, Mostar Mayor and
Deputy Mayor and heads of the six municipalities in the area of
Mostar.
EU officials, led by French Ambassador Bernard Bajolet, Swedish
Ambassador Nils Eliasson and an EU ambassador, Thomas Peyker,
Mostar Mayor and Deputy Mayor, Safet Orucevic and Neven Tomic
respectively, and the six municipal mayors discussed possibilities
of promotion of the implementation of the Dayton Peace Accords and
further steps to be made to the benefit of this southern city.
After the talks, French diplomat Bajolet told a news conference
that signatories to the Mostar document expressed their
resoluteness to help create united, self-sustained and multiethnic
authorities of the city of Mostar.
The divisions in Mostar are being lessened, and EU member-states
are following the developments with great attention, he told
reporters.
According to this Mostar document, all conditions must be created
and fulfilled immediately for the return of all dislocated persons
to their homes. Local authorities must act in line with the
constitutions of Bosnian Croat-Moslem Federation and Herzegovina-
Neretva Canton as well as in line with the city's Provisional
Statute, from which they were prevented before.
The city's municipalities must respect laws and are not allowed to
maintain parallel authorities set up during the war.
Local authorities are bound to respect decisions of the
international community's High Representative to Bosnia and
decisions relating to the city of Mostar.
French Ambassador Bajolet described today's signing of the Mostar
document as a new page in the history of the European Union and
Mostar. He added that psychological and ethnic barriers in the city
were being removed.
He announced that in accordance to the proposal Orucevic and Tomic
gave, EU member countries would call on European cities to co-
operate with Mostar.
Thomas Peyker told reporters that Brussels would not turn a deaf ear
to positive changes in Mostar and recalled that to date 400 million
German marks had been invested in the reconstruction of this wear-
ravaged city.
Orucevic and Tomic told reporters that the heads of the six
municipalities had supported the establishment of a separate city
department the task of which would be to make it possible for
refugees and displaced persons to return to their home soon. On
Wednesday, they also set up a joint co-ordination body which would
convene each month to discuss problems Mostar is facing.
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