NEW YORK NEW YORK, Nov 15 (Hina) - Bosnia-Herzegovina's Presidency members Alija Izetbegovic, Ante Jelavic and Zivko Radisic, on Monday accepted a joint declaration during a UN Security Council's session in New York. This New York
declaration is about the further implementation of peace agreements in their country.
NEW YORK, Nov 15 (Hina) - Bosnia-Herzegovina's Presidency members
Alija Izetbegovic, Ante Jelavic and Zivko Radisic, on Monday
accepted a joint declaration during a UN Security Council's session
in New York. This New York declaration is about the further
implementation of peace agreements in their country.#L#
The Presidency's members reaffirmed their commitment to the Dayton
Accords and noted that the great progress has been made in the last
four years.
"The Presidency reaffirmed its commitment to the realisation of
Bosnia and Herzegovina as a sovereign, fully integrated and
multiethnic state with two multiethnic entities, while respecting
the uniqueness of its three equal constituent peoples," read the
declaration.
The three Bosnian Presidency's members agreed on a series of
concrete issues. First of all, this refers to the set-up of a state
border service within the framework of efforts made by the
international High Representative to Bosnia.
?hey announced the creation of a Permanent Secretariat for the
Joint Presidency. The Secretariat will be composed initially of at
least five people from each constituent people and it will provide
the continuity for the work of the Presidency.
Izetbegovic, Jelavic and Radisic stated that "the structure of the
Council of Ministers should be rectified in an accelerated fashion
in accordance with the BiH Constituent Court decision."
The three agreed to secure the necessary resources for the funding
of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Foreign Trade
and Economic Relations and the Ministry of Civil Affairs.
At the New York session, they supported the adoption of the
Permanent Election law, and expressed their intention to seek
improved military cooperation between the two entities: Croat-
Moslem Federation and the Republic of Srpska.
They attached a particular importance to the return of refugees
concluding that "the return of displaced persons and refugees has
not been sufficient - particularly in urban areas such as Sarajevo,
Banja Luka and Mostar." They pledged to inform the Security Council
of the progress in the return of refugees by March 1, 2000.
In the New York declaration, they strongly supported "the creation
of a single national passport carrying only the name of BiH on its
cover in both the Cyrillic and Latin scripts."
They jointly concluded that the corruption and a lack of
transparency are serious obstacles in the economic recovery of the
country and supported all measures for removing such hindrances.
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