ZAGREB, March 2 (Hina) - Bosnia-Herzegovina's nationals can take new passports in the Bosnian consular department in Zagreb as of Tuesday, March 2. Old passports should be replaced with new ones by June 30, 1999, the head of the
consular department, Nermin Mesinovic told Hina today. New passports, which are the same in the design for all citizens of Bosnia's both entities, were introduced last year by a decision of the international High Representative to Bosnia-Herzegovina, Carlos Westendorp, in line of Dayton Accords provisions that all citizens of Bosnia should have equal passports. The consular department in Zagreb will issue new passports to all Bosnian nationals who are temporarily staying in Croatia, Mesinovic explained. These documents are blue, and each has a word "passport" written in English. The only difference is that passport-holder can choose the other writing in their mother-tongue. Thanks to
ZAGREB, March 2 (Hina) - Bosnia-Herzegovina's nationals can take
new passports in the Bosnian consular department in Zagreb as of
Tuesday, March 2.
Old passports should be replaced with new ones by June 30, 1999, the
head of the consular department, Nermin Mesinovic told Hina today.
New passports, which are the same in the design for all citizens of
Bosnia's both entities, were introduced last year by a decision of
the international High Representative to Bosnia-Herzegovina,
Carlos Westendorp, in line of Dayton Accords provisions that all
citizens of Bosnia should have equal passports.
The consular department in Zagreb will issue new passports to all
Bosnian nationals who are temporarily staying in Croatia,
Mesinovic explained.
These documents are blue, and each has a word "passport" written in
English. The only difference is that passport-holder can choose the
other writing in their mother-tongue.
Thanks to new equal passports, citizens from the Bosnian Serb
entity (the Republic of Srpska), need no longer visas to enter
Croatia.
Citizens of the other entity in Bosnia, Croat-Moslem Federation,
can opt for either words "putovnica" or "pasos" (both meaning
passport) in the Latin script on their passports.
People who lived until April 6, 1992, in the territory now included
in the Republic of Srpska, will have passports with the writing
"pasos" in Cyrillic script.
The new passports will be valid next five years, and citizens have
to pay 200 German marks for their issuance, while refugees should
give 110 marks for them.
(hina) ms