SARAJEVO, Sept 19 (Hina) - The commander of the army of Bosnia-Herzegovina's Croat-Muslim entity, General Atif Dudakovic, said on Friday that he was dissatisfied with measures to reform the country's defence system.
SARAJEVO, Sept 19 (Hina) - The commander of the army of Bosnia-
Herzegovina's Croat-Muslim entity, General Atif Dudakovic, said on
Friday that he was dissatisfied with measures to reform the
country's defence system. #L#
Following a session of the Joint Commission for Military Affairs,
which is chaired by the chief commander of the Stabilisation Force
in the country, US General William Ward, Dudakovic told reporters
that the session did not discuss the establishment of a single
army.
He added that it was time to stop the strengthening of entity
armies, a process which he said had been going on since the signing
of the Dayton peace agreement.
By stating so, Dudakovic joined a state presidency member, Sulejman
Tihic, who also expressed dissatisfaction with the defence reform,
claiming that it was delayed and lacked the needed results as the
ethnic components would continue to exist in the armed forces.
US General Ward said, however, that the reorganisation of the
country's defence system was heading in the right direction and
that one should not be dissatisfied with current reform measures.
Enes Becirbasic, secretary of the Permanent Commission for
Military Affairs - the substitute for a national defence ministry -
said a special commission in charge of reorganisation of the
defence system would end its work at the beginning of next week,
after which one would be able to speak about concrete solutions.
Becirbasic just said that the armed forces of Bosnia-Herzegovina
would be established.
(hina) rml