BOSNIAN FEDERATION GOVERNMENT CLOSES SESSION

MOSTAR, March 7 (Hina) - Bosnian Federation premier Izudin Kapetanovic and his deputy Drago Bilandzija held a press conference after a Federation government session in Mostar on Thursday. Kapetanovic said that the Federation government fully supported the interior minister and his deputy and their efforts in the process of transfer of Serb-held areas to federal control. The government demanded that the composition of the federal police force reflect the 1991 population census, he added. The meeting decided that in the next seven days federal government ministers would delimit the powers of federal and republican ministries. The government expressed its full support of the Rome accords on Mostar and the Dayton peace agreement under which four federal ministries would be based in Mostar, Kapetanovic said. Bilandzija said that the session also focused on efforts to create a federal financial system so that Federation officials could participate in an international conference of donors for Bosnia, which is due to take place in mid-March under the sponsorship of the World Bank and the International Montetary Fund. The government decided to set up services for customs, taxation and payment operations, Bilandzija said. (hina) vm 072003 MET mar 96