MOSTAR, April 9 (Hina) - The government of Bosnia-Herzegovina will take all the necessary steps to assist in shedding light on the case of Bosnian citizen Sanel Sjekirica, who is suspected by Spanish authorities of involvement in the
recent Madrid train bombings, Bosnian Security Minister Barisa Colak said on Friday.
MOSTAR, April 9 (Hina) - The government of Bosnia-Herzegovina will take
all the necessary steps to assist in shedding light on the case of
Bosnian citizen Sanel Sjekirica, who is suspected by Spanish
authorities of involvement in the recent Madrid train bombings,
Bosnian Security Minister Barisa Colak said on Friday.#L#
In an interview with Mostar-based Radio Herceg-Bosna, Colak said the
case might slow the process of the country's admission to Western
institutions.
"Failure by Bosnia-Herzegovina to act seriously and take all the
necessary action in combating organised crime and terrorism might
substantially affect its efforts to join the European Union and NATO,"
Colak said.
Colak said his country had stepped up efforts over the last six months
to determine how people of African and Asian origin had been granted
Bosnian citizenship during the war.
"We want to know where those people are now," he said, adding that "it
was not seldom that those people changed their place of residence and
names".
"This is a complex process to which Bosnia-Herzegovina must devote
special attention if it really wants to be a state," Colak said.
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