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SARAJEVO, July 10 (Hina) - The international community's leading
official in Bosnia-Herzegovina has rejected Bosniak (Muslim)
criticism of his decision to name the provisional management board
for the state broadcaster.
In a letter sent on Friday to Bosnian Presidency chairman Alija
Izetbegovic, High Representative Carlos Westendorp said his
decision on the board's composition was final, but he was ready to
consider another two members to be nominated by Izetbegovic and the
Presidency's Croat member Kresimir Zubak.
Westendorp's spokesman Rida Attarashani called as pointless the
criticisms by Izetbegovic's foreign affairs advisor Mirza Hajric,
who had claimed the High Representative had broken principles of
the memorandum on restructuring Radio and Television Bosnia-
Herzegovina (RTV BiH).
Attarashani told Hina there was no way there had been a violation of
what had been agreed to.
The memorandum clearly foresees that nominations be made by
Presidency members, and the High Representative confirms members
of the management board, he said.
Attarashani said since discussions began on the status of RTV BiH,
Izetbegovic's office or the Bosniak side had constantly troubled
talks in an attempt to slow down the process.
Westendorp's spokesman recalled that months had been spent on
endless discussions on the contents of the memorandum, followed by
the naming of members for the new RTV BiH management.
It is all about a drawing out of the process whose aim is to maintain
the status quo and not enable changes to be made to RTV BiH before
the elections, Attarashani said.
He added that in contrast to Izetbegovic, the Office of the High
Representative had established very good cooperation with Zubak
during all this time.
Attarashani said that during procedures to decide members of the
management board, people had been manipulated in an inconvenient
manner.
At first the Bosniak side had nominated Jewish Council president
Jakob Finci only to later seek his removal from the list with the
excuse that he was the head of a religious community.
We were unable to accept some of the names given to us by
Izetbegovic's office, because they were people very close to the
structures of the SDA (Muslim-led Party of Democratic Action) or
they were employed in RTV BiH which is incompatible with membership
of the management board, Attarashani said.
He said that during discussions on the future of RTV BiH the High
Representative had show good will and patience, but he would not
allow further drawing out and obstructions when it came to
restructuring the broadcaster and changing its programme
contents.
Tomaz Perovic, who is the international nominee on the management
board, today had his first meeting with RTV BiH employees.
He was only able to enter the broadcaster's building after a second
attempt because security did not allow him in during the first try.
(Hina) mbr /ha
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