SARAJEVO, 9 Jan (Hina) - Bosnian Serb authorities are refusing to carry out the reorganization of their police forces in line with the Dayton agreement, U.N. spokesman Alexander Ivanko told reporters in Sarajevo Thursday.
SARAJEVO, 9 Jan (Hina) - Bosnian Serb authorities are refusing to
carry out the reorganization of their police forces in line with
the Dayton agreement, U.N. spokesman Alexander Ivanko told
reporters in Sarajevo Thursday. #L#
According to Ivanko, International Police Task Force (IPTF)
commissioner Peter Fitzgerald and his deputy Robert Wasserman
yesterday held separate meetings with the Serb entity interior
minister Dragan Kijac so as to convince him that the reorganization
of police is necessary, but the meetings yielded no result.
According to the Dayton peace agreement, IPTF representatives
are authorized to supervise the establishment of local police
forces in both entities on the bases which are valid in democratic
societies.
Such a process has already begun in the Croat-Muslim
Federation.
Republika Srpska police force currently counts 20,000 members.
According to international standards, that number should be
reduced to 8,500 to 9,500 members.
The Republika Srpska interior minister Kijac refused to give
IPTF a list with the names of his men, without which it is
impossible to start the process of reorganization.
Kijac said the list was a state secret, Ivanko explained,
warning that the basic problem was that Kijac saw his police as
part of the military force and not as part of civil structures of
authority.
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