OSLO, June 11 (Hina) - An agreement on subregional arms control which had to be signed in Oslo on Monday morning has still not been signed due to a problem as to how to call the part of Bosnia- Herzegovina controlled by the Bosnian
Serbs.
OSLO, June 11 (Hina) - An agreement on subregional arms control
which had to be signed in Oslo on Monday morning has still not been
signed due to a problem as to how to call the part of Bosnia-
Herzegovina controlled by the Bosnian Serbs. #L#
The problem refers to the status of the Serb entity in Bosnia-
Herzegovina because the Sarajevo-based government does not want the
Bosnian Serbs to be treated in the agreement as a separate state in
Bosnia-Herzegovina called "Republika Srpska".
"Political decisions are at stake at the moment and we must
seek the governments' answers", the Organization for Security and
Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) main mediator in the talks, Norwegian
General Vigleik Eide said, adding that "we have good chances".
He called the dispute a "turning to a politically secondary
issue" since the disputable part of the agreement was the same as
in the Dayton Agreement.
"We have been using the same text that everybody signed six
months ago", said Eide.
Neither the Moslem side nor the Bosnian Serbs accepted the
compromising proposals. Today expired the 180-day period provided
for in the Dayton Agreement for talks on subregional arms control.
If no agreement is signed in Oslo, the talks will probably
continue at this week's conference in Florence, Italy, which the
six-month long peace process in Bosnia-Herzegovina will be
reviewed.
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