BH COUNCIL OF MINISTERS ADOPTS BILL ON FOREIGN TRADE POLICY

SARAJEVO, Mar 13 (Hina) - The Council of Ministers of Bosnia-Herzegovina (BH) on Thursday evening agreed on a bill on the foreign trade policy of BH. Still to be co-ordinated is a bill on tariff policy, in which the most important thing to determine is whether customs revenues belonged to the entities or to BH. International Peace Coordinator Carl Bildt today forwarded a letter to the Council of Ministers of BH, in which he warned them about the forthcoming donors' conference for BH and that the international community would not give up on BH's obligation to fulfil the conditions set forth by the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Apart from a "package for a fast beginning", the fundamental condition for the holding of the donors' conference was, according to Bildt, the signing of an agreement with the IMF, for the signing of which BH must accept the budget for 1997. In this respect, Bildt proposed that the Council of Ministers concentrate on the solving of the least debatable issues. Commenting the letter, co-chairman of the ministers' session, Haris Silajdzic, said he was unpleasantly surprised with the letter, adding that Bildt wanted to attribute some of his oversights to the Council of Ministers. Bildt's Office could not have its priorities without listening at the same time to our own priorities, Silajdzic said and pointed out that the Council of Ministers was faced with many problems accumulated over the last five years, and these were not easy to solve. (hina) ha 132231 MET mar 97