BOSNIAN SERB & YUGOSLAV REPS SIGN DUAL CITIZENSHIP AGREEMENT

( Editorial: --> 8112 ) BELGRADE, 13 Dec (Hina) - The Yugoslav Foreign Minister Milan Milutinovic and the Serb member of the Bosnian Presidency, Momcilo Krajisnik, signed an agreement on dual citizenship in Belgrade on Saturday. "The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and Bosnia-Herzegovina have agreed that citizens of Bosnia-Herzegovina will be able to have Yugoslav citizenship, along with the citizenship of Bosnia- Herzegovina," said a statement from the Yugoslav Foreign Ministry, adding that the agreement was in line with the European Charter on Human Rights and the Dayton agreement. The signing of the agreement was Yugoslavia's additional contribution to and confirmation of its support for the Dayton peace agreement and the strengthening of the peace process, stability, good neighbourly relations in the region, and the development of its overall relations with Bosnia-Herzegovina as well as to the protection of rights of Serbs and Montenegrins in Bosnia-Herzegovina, the statement said. Krajisnik recalled that the drawing up of a citizenship law, including dual citizenship issue, was being brought to an end in Bosnia-Herzegovina. The Bosnian Presidency had signed a statement saying that citizens of Bosnia-Herzegovina could have dual citizenship only if a bilateral agreement with the country in question was signed, Krajisnik said. (hina) rm 131648 MET dec 97