CONDITIONS FOR BOSNIA'S JOINING COUNCIL OF EUROPE TO BE FULFILLED ASAP - JELAVIC

SARAJEVO, June 22 (Hina) - Bosnia-Herzegovina authorities will invest more efforts in fulfilling conditions for joining the Council of Europe as a full member, Chairman of the Bosnia- Herzegovina Presidency Ante Jelavic told a press conference in Sarajevo on Monday. Jelavic held talks with the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe chairman, Hallsor Asgrimsson, and Secretary General Daniel Tarschysom. After the talks, Jelavic told reporters that the BH Presidency would be an example of how to strengthen the work of joint institutions in BH, adding the same was expected from the Parliament and the Council of Ministers. According to Jelavic, a priority was to establish a permanent electoral law and to implement property laws, which, he said, should accelerate the return of refugees. Bosnia-Herzegovina authorities will invest additional efforts in a media reform and the educational system. Asgrimsson, who is also the Icelandic Foreign Minister, said that Bosnia-Herzegovina senior officials sincerely wish to join the Council of Europe. Asgrimsson added it was important that all BH citizens invested efforts in achieving that goal. BH should enter integrated Europe without internal division lines, Asgrimsson said. The Council of Europe Secretary General said BH should strengthen as a united state, adding this was a pre-condition of Bosnia's cooperation with other European countries. (hina) it