ZAGREB, Sept 12 (Hina) - The chairman of Bosnia-Herzegovina's Parliamentary Assembly's House of Representatives, Pero Skopljak, on Tuesday assessed that projects the international community had to date launched in his country failed
to meet expectations in relation to the acceleration of the economic recovery and refugee returns. The Zagreb two-day conference of Stability Pact member-countries' parliamentary heads resumed on Tuesday afternoon with Skopljak's speech. Addressing the conference, which gathered 45 delegations, Skopljak urged participants in the event to give priority to the implementation of such projects in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Bundestag Deputy Speaker Antje Vollmer announced that in the coming years Germany would earmark 1.2 billion German marks for projects initiated within the Stability Pact for South-eastern Europe. She added that Germany would in particular be interested in giv
ZAGREB, Sept 12 (Hina) - The chairman of Bosnia-Herzegovina's
Parliamentary Assembly's House of Representatives, Pero Skopljak,
on Tuesday assessed that projects the international community had
to date launched in his country failed to meet expectations in
relation to the acceleration of the economic recovery and refugee
returns.
The Zagreb two-day conference of Stability Pact member-countries'
parliamentary heads resumed on Tuesday afternoon with Skopljak's
speech.
Addressing the conference, which gathered 45 delegations, Skopljak
urged participants in the event to give priority to the
implementation of such projects in Bosnia-Herzegovina.
Bundestag Deputy Speaker Antje Vollmer announced that in the coming
years Germany would earmark 1.2 billion German marks for projects
initiated within the Stability Pact for South-eastern Europe. She
added that Germany would in particular be interested in giving the
financial backing to projects in the sectors of media, commerce,
investment, arms control and the work of non-governmental
organisations.
NATO Parliamentary Assembly Deputy Speaker Tahir Kose said NATO,
which offered a safety framework for this Pact, remained in the
region and would not let it plunge into yet another war.
Duma Deputy Speaker Irina Mucuovna Hakamada, whose country has not
agreed with some segments of a draft of the Zagreb event's final
document, said Moscow maintained that positive changes could be
achieved only if Yugoslavia (Serbia/Montenegro) were included into
the Pact, although Russia had no illusions about the Belgrade
regime. Mucuovna Hakamada cautioned that the use of force at the
moment in order to stabilise the region would be a tragic mistake.
Albanian Parliament's representative, Fatos Nano, commented on the
bureaucratic obstacles that slow the implementation of the
Stability Pact's projects, and warned that the Pact was facing
prospects that nations in the region see it as a mere pre-election
platitude.
Macedonia's parliamentary head, Savo Klimovski, called the
participants to come to a similar event in his country next year.
The plenary session, which ended its first day shortly after 04.00
pm Tuesday, resumes on Wednesday when another 10 participants are
expected to give speeches and when the final document should be
adopted.
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