SARAJEVO, Sept 26 (Hina) - The Muslim side on Thursday night accepted a document on the re-organisation of the defence sector of Bosnia-Herzegovina. As a result, conditions have been met for the country's admission into NATO's
Partnership for Peace programme.
SARAJEVO, Sept 26 (Hina) - The Muslim side on Thursday night
accepted a document on the re-organisation of the defence sector of
Bosnia-Herzegovina. As a result, conditions have been met for the
country's admission into NATO's Partnership for Peace programme.
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The secretary-general of the Bosnian Standing Commission for
Military Matters (SCMM), Enes Becirbasic, was quoted by the
Sarajevo press on Friday as saying that a compromise was reached,
but declined to give any more detail.
Until recently, the Muslim Party of Democratic Action (SDA)
resolutely rejected a draft law on Bosnia's defence which would
introduce the unified civil and military command over the military
forces in the country with the separate forces of the two entities
still in existence.
A report compiled by the special commission in charge of the defence
sector's reform, chaired by American diplomat James Locher, will be
presented to the council monitoring the implementation of the
Dayton peace accords in the course of the day.
The draft defence act will be sent into parliamentary procedure
after that.
According to sources from NATO, if the law is adopted by the end of
the year, Bosnia can become a member of the Partnership for Peace
immediately after that.
(hina) ms