BOSNIA MINISTERIAL COUNCIL'S MEMBERS FAIL TO AGREE ON BORDER DEAL

SARAJEVO, July 28 (Hina) - Bosnia-Herzegovina's Council of Ministers on Wednesday considered a text of a draft agreement on the border between Croatia and Bosnia but failed to reach consent on its contents. The Ministerial Council's co-chairman, Svetozar Mihajlovic, who is a Serb representative, told reporters in Sarajevo that the Bosnian Serb party insisted that the text should include an amendment under which police of both countries will not pass on the left and right banks respectively of the Una river until the final ratification of the frontier treaty. Bosnian Serbs have already brought in question agreement reached at negotiations of expert groups, by demanding a change in the border line near Kostajnica so that it will go through the middle of the course of the Una river. The Ministerial Council decided to forward the draft agreement on the Bosnian-Croatian border to Bosnia's three-man Presidency. The ball has been thus played back to Bosnia's state leadership that accepted the text a day before under the condition that the Council endorse the deal. The agreement was expected to be signed during the Sarajevo Summit of the Stability Pact for Southeast Europe. (hina) ms