$ TERS SARAJEVO, Feb 2 (Hina) - US Assistant State Secretary John Kornblum arrived in Sarajevo on Sunday and held talks with the co-president of the Bosnia-Herzegovina Council of Ministers Haris Silajdzic. After the talks Kornblum
said that the goal of his new mediating mission was to show interest of Washington for the implementation of the Dayton Agreement.
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SARAJEVO, Feb 2 (Hina) - US Assistant State Secretary John Kornblum
arrived in Sarajevo on Sunday and held talks with the co-president
of the Bosnia-Herzegovina Council of Ministers Haris Silajdzic.
After the talks Kornblum said that the goal of his new
mediating mission was to show interest of Washington for the
implementation of the Dayton Agreement. #L#
Kornblum said that the USA government wanted to help to remove
the current standstills and confirmed that Monday's session of the
Federation Forum would discuss the most important problems in the
Bosnian Federation.
Silajdzic said that his talks with Kornblum and other members
of the US delegation had mostly focused on the problems in the
functioning of central bodies of authority in Bosnia, especially
the Central Bank.
"I am glad to hear Mr. Kornblum say that the Central Bank
would be established and that it would function without whoever
does not want to cooperate, that money would be created and hat it
would circulate where people accept it," Silajdzic said.
He added that Sunday's talks with Kornblum showed that
punishing an entity for an act of the other one would not be
allowed.
During talks about the establishment of the Central Bank,
Bosnian Serbs insisted on the existence of central banks in the
entities as well and refused to accept a unified name and look of
the new Bosnia-Herzegovina currency which was envisaged on the
Constitution from Dayton.
The international Community described the establishment of the
Central Bank and a unified currency as the key condition for the
holding of a donor's conference on the help for Bosnia announced
for March.
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