SARAJEVO, Jan 3 (Hina) - The Bosnia-Herzegovina Parliament House of Representatives held a session in Sarajevo on Friday at which it confirmed the decision of the Bosnian Presidency on the appointment of co-presidents of the Council
of Ministers. Haris Silajdzic and Boro Bosic have been officially appointed as co-presidents of the Council and will take turns each week.
SARAJEVO, Jan 3 (Hina) - The Bosnia-Herzegovina Parliament House of
Representatives held a session in Sarajevo on Friday at which it
confirmed the decision of the Bosnian Presidency on the appointment
of co-presidents of the Council of Ministers.
Haris Silajdzic and Boro Bosic have been officially appointed
as co-presidents of the Council and will take turns each week. #L#
The Lower House also confirmed the nominations of other
members of the Council of Ministers whose deputy president is Neven
Tomic, Bosnian Foreign Minister remains Jadranko Prlic, Foreign
Trade and Economy Minister is Hasan Muratovic and Civil Issues and
Communications Minister is Spasoje Albijanic.
The Council of Ministers also includes six deputy ministers.
The MP's also nominated heads of the House of Representatives
at Friday's session.
Lots were cast and it was decided that the first president
would be a Croat, so, Ivo Lozancic was elected with most votes to
that post.
Deputy president from the Serb side is Slobodan Bijedic and
from the Moslem side Halid Genjac.
In a brief address to the MP's Haris Silajdzic called on the
international community to provide more decisive assistance to
Bosnia "so that the start of a new big war in the region could be
prevented".
Boro Bosic cited the reconstruction of the country as the most
important task.
President of the Bosnian Presidency Alija Izetbegovic
stressed that the assembly of members of parliament represented
true proof that all sides agreed that the Dayton Agreement had to
be implemented.
A member of the Presidency, Kresimir Zubak, warned that a new
system of authority had to be created in Bosnia-Herzegovina, with
respecting the fact that there were two equal entities in the
country and three peoples.
Another member of the Bosnian Presidency Momcilo Krajisnik
said that everyone had accepted Bosnia's existence through the
peace agreement, stressing that it can be sustained only if
everyone in Bosnia felt equal and safe.
The Bosnia Herzegovina Parliament House of Represent consists
of 42 members, 28 of which were elected from the Bosnian federation
and 14 from the Republika Srpska.
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