$ ESS SARAJEVO, Sept 7 (Hina) - The period after elections in Bosnia would represent the most important and most difficult phase in the implementation of the Dayton agreement, and would determine the future development of events in
the country and the whole region, spokesman of the High International Representative, Colum Murphy said. He stressed that central authority institutions had to be established first.
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SARAJEVO, Sept 7 (Hina) - The period after elections in Bosnia
would represent the most important and most difficult phase in the
implementation of the Dayton agreement, and would determine the
future development of events in the country and the whole region,
spokesman of the High International Representative, Colum Murphy
said.
He stressed that central authority institutions had to be
established first. #L#
Murphy said that the Standing Committee for supervising the
implementation of the peace agreement at Thursday's session in
Brussels had supported measures which the Office of the High
Representative had decided to take with the aim of establishing new
bodies of authority.
Although the most part of responsibility lay with the sides in
Bosnia, Carl Bildt had full authorization for the implementation of
all sections of the peace agreement, Murphy said.
With that aim in mind, Bildt already proposed transitional
arrangements which envisage that the present state bodies perform
only administrative work without bringing political decisions,
until the establishment of new authority.
The first meeting of the newly elected members of the Bosnian
Presidency is to take place four day after the election results.
The Bosnian Assembly House of Representatives which will
consist of 42 members should be constituted ten days after the
election results.
The joint meeting of the two bodies is expected to take place
on 2 or 3 October.
In the first week of October, Bildt's office is to propose
some legal solutions called "quick start package" to the Bosnian
Presidency and House of Representatives. The goal of the
resolutions would be to ensure a state budget for 1997, regulations
in economic cooperation with other countries, regulations of
citizenship and passports, the functioning of the central bank,
term of the representatives' mandate and immunity and regulating
air traffic.
According to Murphy, it is expected that views on the
transmission of radio and television programmes in the whole of
Bosnia would be harmonized, with the aim of ensuring free
work of the independent media.
The future of this country would depend on the economic
policy, so it was necessary to ensure the implementation of reforms
and liberalization, Murphy said, confirming that Bildt's office
would hold talks with the World Bank, European Commission and the
International Monetary Fund about providing help for Bosnia.
These issues would be discussed in detail at a conference on
the implementation of the Dayton agreement which would take place
on 4 and 5 December in London, Murphy said.
The establishment of the central bodies of authority in Bosnia
could, however, slow down issues marked as "technical". The Dayton
agreement envisaged that the centres of these institutions be in
Sarajevo as the state capital.
The Serb side recently asked that the government institution
buildings be constructed at the very border between entities, even
with separate entrances for officials from the two entities.
Murphy refused to comment on such requests, stressing that
concrete resolutions had to be reached and many different solutions
existed.
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