SILAJDZIC AND BOSIC NOMINATED AS MINISTERIAL COUNCIL CO-CHAIRMEN

SARAJEVO, Dec 12 (Hina) - Bosnia-Herzegovina's three-man Presidency, on Thursday appointed a Moslem, Haris Silajdzic, and a Serb, Boro Bosic, to be co-chairmen of the Bosnian Council of Ministry. They were nominated by the (Moslem-led) Party of Democratic Action, SDA, and by the Serb Democratic Party, SDS. Co-chairmen are expected to appoint other members of the Council of Ministers by December 17 when a session of Bosnia-Herzegovina's Assembly House of Representatives is convened. The House of Representatives is authorized, under the Constitution, to confirm nominations of the co-chairmen, ministers and deputy ministers of the Council. At Thursday's session Bosnia's Presidency members, Alija Izetbegovic, Kresimir Zubak and Momcilo Krajisnik decided that Boro Bosic would be the first to chair the Council for a week. It was earlier agreed that the two co-chairmen would be rotating each week. A statement, issued after Thursday's session of the Bosnian Presidency, said that Presidency's members held the right to replace co-chairman 'in line with their powers'. Organization, rights and responsibilities of the Council of Ministries should be determined by special laws and a standing order. A Bosnian Croat-Moslem Federation minister and Zubak's representative in negotiations for the ministerial Council's establishment, Martin Raguz, told reporters that the Presidency members confirmed today proposed candidates for other members of the Council. Bosnia-Herzegovina's Presidency on Thursday demanded from all responsible authorities to lift a state of immediate war danger in areas where they had not done it so far. It also reached decision on establishing diplomatic relations with the Russian Federation. Raguz announced that lists of POWs should be matched until the next session of the Presidency and that war prisoners should be soon released. (hina) jn mš 121625 MET dec 96