BOSNIA'S COUNCIL OF MINISTERS DISCUSSES "BILDT BILLS"

SARAJEVO, Jan 21 (Hina) - Bosnia-Herzegovina's Council of Ministers met in the Serb-held Sarajevo suburb of Lukavica on Tuesday to discuss a dozen bills regulating the functioning of the central government and the economic system. Foreign Minister Jadranko Prlic told reporters after the meeting that the council named members of the working groups that should prepare the final texts of the bills in the next few days. The adoption of the bills, drafted by the office of international peace coordinator Carl Bildt, was crucial for the continuation of talks with the International Monetary Fund and the holding of a donors' aid conference scheduled for March, Prlic said. Also in Lukavica, council co-chairmen Haris Silajdzic and Boro Bosic and council vice president Neven Tomic met Louise Arbour, the chief prosecutor of the international war crimes tribunal in The Hague. According to unofficial sources, they agreed that the Bosnian Foreign Ministry would draw up a protocol on cooperation with the tribunal that would take into account the fact that Bosnia- Herzegovina now consisted of two entities. (hina) vm jn 211846 MET jan 97