FEDERATION ASSEMBLY DID NOT RATIFY AGREEMENT ON SPECIAL RELATIONS

SARAJEVO, Feb 24 (Hina) - The Bosnian Federation Parliament on did not ratify the agreement on special relations with Croatia on Wednesday's session, due to Bosniak MPs opposing the ratification being placed on agendas of sessions of the House of Representatives or the House of Nations held in Sarajevo on Wednesday. High representative for Bosnia-Herzegovina Carlos Westendorp forwarded a letter to the Bosnian Federation Parliament, requesting the agreement be ratified, as the deadline for its ratification had expired on February 22. Croat MPs at both Houses requested at the beginning of sessions that Westendorp's demand be fulfilled, but the Bosniak side refused this, claiming the Parliament of Bosnia-Herzegovina had to discuss the agreement before that. After a short discussion on the Agreement on Special Relations between Croatia and the Bosnian Federation, voting on the subject was postponed for an undefined amount of time. The Bosnian Federation Parliament's House of Nations elected two MPs on Wednesday to the Bosnia-Herzegovina Parliament's House of Nations. Elected were Croat Ivo Zivkovic of the New Croat Initiative and Bosniak Dzevad Mlaco of the Party of Democratic Action, although he had recently been suspended from his post of Bugojno municipality commissioner by a decision of the High Representative. (hina) lml mm