BOSNIAN OPPOSITION PARTIES TO FORM SHADOW CABINET

SARAJEVO, Jan 13 (Hina) - Five opposition parties in Bosnia- Herzegovina announced on Monday they may form a shadow cabinet by the end of this month. Opposition parties from the country's Moslem-Croat and Serb entities had worked out a protocol on the principles of establishing an alternative council of ministers that would consist of a chairman, two deputies and seven members, Social Democratic Union vice president Sejfudin Tokic told a news conference in Sarajevo. The parties had already discussed with European Commission officials the participation of alternative council representatives in a donors' conference on Bosnia-Herzegovina due to take place in Brussels in March, Tokic said. (hina) vm 131841 MET jan 97