OFFICE OF HIGH REPRESENTATIVE DRAFTS SOLUTIONS TO CONTROVERSIAL LAWS

LAWS $ SARAJEVO, Aug 15 (Hina) - The Office of the international High Representative to Bosnia-Herzegovina has drafted solutions to the controversial provisions of Bosnian laws on citizenship and travel documents, spokesman Duncan Bullivant said in Sarajevo on Friday. The solutions will be offered for discussion to the Council of Ministers, which is to convene on Saturday. Bullivant said that Deputy High Representative Gerd Wagner would try to help solve the problem so that the laws could be finally adopted. The Council of Ministers has agreed to seek arbitration of the Office of the High Representative because they could not find a solution to the issue of granting citizenship and the design of travel documents. The controversial laws should have been adopted by the beginning of August. According to a new deadline set at a meeting in Sintra, Portugal, the Bosnian parties should agree the design of a new national flag and coat of arms before the end of this month. A spokesman for the Moslem-led Party of Democratic Action (SDA), Ismet Grbo, said on Thursday that two proposals for the design of the flag were being considered: a red-green-blue or green-red-blue flag and a monochrome flag with a neutral symbol. (hina) vm 151449 MET aug 97