BOSNIAN PARLIAMENT POSTPONES ADOPTION OF LAW ON PASSPORTS

( Editorial: --> 6305 ) SARAJEVO, Dec 5 (Hina) - Friday's session on which the Parliament of Bosnia-Herzegovina was expected to adopt the law on travel documents and citizenship was once again postponed. After three-hour consultations behind closed doors with representatives of party benches, deputy chairman of the Lower House, Halid Genjac, told reporters that the Serb side had come out with new requests regarding the design of the Front page of a Bosnia-Herzegovina passport. Although it had been agreed earlier that all of the passport's text be written in English, representatives of the Serb Democratic Party requested additional texts in Croatian, Bosniak and Serbian, in the Latin and Cyrillic alphabets. According to Genjac, MPs were ready to accept this request, but found unacceptable the Serbs' new request that letters naming the two entities in Bosnia-Herzegovina be enlarged. The Serb side also refused to discuss the law on citizenship without the previous adoption of the law on passports. (hina) lm mm 052002 MET dec 97