STABILITY PACT SUMMIT SCHEDULED IN SARAJEVO FOR JULY 29 & 30

SARAJEVO, July 14 (Hina) - A European Union (EU) delegation has assessed conditions do exist for Bosnian capital Sarajevo to host a Stability Pact for Southeast Europe summit, the co-president of Bosnia's Council of Ministers and summit implementation committee chairman, Haris Silajdzic, said in Sarajevo on Wednesday.#L# The summit will be scheduled for July 29 and 30, he told reporters. Aldo Russi, the Finnish President's adviser on foreign affairs, told the joint press conference at the end of his visit to Sarajevo, the EU has yet to solve some financial issues. Russi said Sarajevo was not among the cities in which organising such a big conference was simple, but pointed to the wish of the international community to make Bosnia's capital a symbol of end- of-the-century tolerance and reconstruction. The presidents and prime ministers of Southeast European countries will gather in Sarajevo on July 29, while all other participants in the summit, including the other signatories to the pact, the presidents of EU and G-7 group member-countries, and representatives of international organisations and agencies, will arrive on July 30. "We expect 65 different delegations to arrive in Sarajevo," said Bosnian Foreign Minister Jadranko Prlic. Later next week, representatives of participating countries' foreign ministries will meet to draft the final documents of the regional and general conferences, he said. It is assumed the diplomatic delegations arriving in Sarajevo at the end of the month will number between 1,500 and 2,000 people, with at least as many members of the press also expected. (hina) ha jn