SARAJEVO, Oct 5 (Hina) - The upper house of the Bosnian parliament onWednesday passed new laws on defence and on service in the armedforces, thus completing legislative activities in the process ofreorganising the country's defence
system.
SARAJEVO, Oct 5 (Hina) - The upper house of the Bosnian parliament
on Wednesday passed new laws on defence and on service in the armed forces,
thus completing legislative activities in the process of reorganising the
country's defence system. The laws were previously adopted by the
parliament's lower house.
Under the new laws, the defence ministries of the Croat-Muslim and Serb
entities will cease to exist on 1 January 2006, and they will be replaced with
a single ministry on the state level.
The existing entity armies will be transformed into state armed forces
consisting of three regiments with some 10,000 professional soldiers and
officers.
The process is expected to be completed by September 2006.