SARAJEVO, Jan 16 (Hina) - Members of Bosnia's Council of Ministers met with international peace coordinator Carl Bildt at his office on Thursday, after an official cabinet session was postponed.
SARAJEVO, Jan 16 (Hina) - Members of Bosnia's Council of Ministers
met with international peace coordinator Carl Bildt at his office
on Thursday, after an official cabinet session was postponed. #L#
Bild presented several draft bills which regulate the
functioning of joint government bodies and create conditions for
economic progress. The meeting was held behind closed doors.
"There were a dozen bills dealing with the central bank,
tariffs, external debt, citizenship and passports," Council of
Ministers co-chairman Haris Silajdzic told reporters.
But Silajdzic warned against the passage of commercial laws at
entity level before the national parliament enacted privatisation,
restitution and ownership laws binding for the whole state of
Bosnia-Herzegovina.
"We cannot have entity laws without agreeing on a common
foundation at the state level," Silajdzic said. Any other approach
would result in the creation of two separate economic systems, he
said.
Bosnian Foreign Minister Jadranko Prlic said Bildt's bills
were indispensable for Bosnia-Herzegovina to start functioning as
an international economic subject. The most important among these,
according to Prlic, were the bills on the central bank and the
national budget, and they should be passed by February 10.
"All the preparatory tasks for the passage of a law on the
central bank should be completed on time if we want to have
processes that make sense. Those who won't be able to carry it off
will be accountable to their nations. This is the year when we must
connect to the democratic world, and if we miss our chance in the
next month or two, we won't be given another," Prlic elaborated.
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