SARAJEVO, 10 Dec (Hina) - Members of the Bosnian Presidency are expected to reach their final decision on the composition of the country's Council of Ministers at a session to be held in Sarajevo on Wednesday.
SARAJEVO, 10 Dec (Hina) - Members of the Bosnian Presidency are
expected to reach their final decision on the composition of the
country's Council of Ministers at a session to be held in Sarajevo
on Wednesday. #L#
Colum Murphy, spokesman for Carl Bildt's office in Sarajevo on
Tuesday stated that talks and consultations on the names of
candidates were still under way, adding it was hard to say at the
moment who would sit on the Council.
We expect that the consultations will be over by tomorrow,
Murphy said.
The Bosniac side yesterday issued an official statement saying
that its candidate for the post of the Council's co-chairman would
be Haris Silajdzic, while the Bosnian Premier Hasan Muratovic had
been proposed for the post of foreign trade minister.
The Party of Democratic Action (SDA) executive committee
decided that its candidate for the post of deputy foreign minister
should be Husein Zivalj, Bosnia's ambassador to Austria.
The Serb member of the Bosnian Presidency, Momcilo Krajisnik,
on Saturday announced the names of Serb officials proposed for
Council members. The Serb list includes Aleksa Buha, president of
the Serb Democratic Party (SDS) and less known members of several
former Serb entity governments, Branko Bosic, Milomir Draganic,
Spasoje Albijanic, Dragan Bozanic and Gavro Bogic.
Political circles in Sarajevo estimate that Buha could be the
candidate for the post of Council co-chairman, while Bozanic, a
former journalist and information minister of Republika Srpska,
could win the post of a deputy to Jadranko Prlic, Bosnia's Foreign
Minster.
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