SARAJEVO, April 24 (Hina) - The media in Bosnia-Herzegovina on Wednesday reported about the country's admission to the Council of Europe as the most important event since Bosnia's international recognition by the United Nations in
1992.
SARAJEVO, April 24 (Hina) - The media in Bosnia-Herzegovina on
Wednesday reported about the country's admission to the Council of
Europe as the most important event since Bosnia's international
recognition by the United Nations in 1992. #L#
High Representative Wolfgang Petritsch, who attended the admission
ceremony in Strasbourg, said the citizens of Bosnia-Herzegovina
should consider full membership in the Council of Europe a great
success and achievement of the ruling Alliance for Changes.
The highest Bosnian officials, including Presidency Chairman Beriz
Belkic and Foreign Minister Zlatko Lagumdzija, expressed
confidence that the event marked the beginning of a process of
Bosnia's full integration into all European structures.
The United Nations Mission in Bosnia-Herzegovina has welcomed the
latest event and its head Jacques Klein expressed hope that this
would encourage the defining of Bosnia's identity as a multiethnic
democratic country.
However, he warned that with this act Bosnia was taking over
numerous commitments whose fulfilment was a precondition for the
country's European future.
The OSCE Mission in the country joined in congratulations to BH
citizens, noting that the elections scheduled for October this year
would be the first concrete test of the country's political
maturity as the voters would decide how real problems, such as
economic ones, would be solved, in which process ethnicity would
not play any role.
(hina) rml sb