BOSNIAN COUNCIL OF MINISTERS AGREE ON ONE BILL

SARAJEVO, March 19 (Hina) - Only one bill from the package of Bildt's bills has been agreed upon at Wednesday's session of Bosnia-Herzegovina's Council of Ministers. The package is a group of draft bills on functioning Bosnia's bodies of authority, which the international High Representative Carl Bildt proposed to the Ministerial Council on January 16 for consideration. The aim of the package that comprises a dozen bills on a Central Bank, tariffs, external debt, citizenship and similar kinds of issues, was to improve the economic situation in Bosnia- Herzegovina. After today's session in Sarajevo, reporters were told that other bills would be considered at following meetings. A co-chairman of the Council of Ministers, Haris Silajdzic, said that only the external debt bill had been definitely adjusted, whereas the foreign trade bill's article on regulating foreign trade of the state of Bosnia-Herzegovina rather than entities remained disputable. The Ministerial Council requested Bildt's office to offer a solution of the contentious issue, a deputy to Bildt, Michael Steiner, said today. The German diplomat added that the office would do it in accordance with the Constitution of Bosnia-Herzegovina. On Wednesday also, the Council of Ministers tried to agree on the tariffs bill but failed. (hina) jn mš 192208 MET mar 97