Thursday, November 22, 2007

INITIATIVE FOR CHANGES TO BOSNIAN PARLIAMENT'S HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES' RULES OF PROCEDURE PRESENTED IN SARAJEVO

SARAJEVO, Bosnia (November 22,2007) – The Bosnian Parliament’s House of Representatives Speaker Milorad Zivkovic and his Deputy Niko Lozancic presented in Sarajevo the initiative for changes to the Bosnian Parliament’s House of Representatives’ Rules of Procedure.

The material entitled the draft of a proposal was conciliated at the Collegiums and has been submitted to the Office of the International Community's High RepresentativeO in Bosnia (OHR) which “positively marked it”.
Zivkovic stated at a press conference in the Bosnian capital Sarajevo that 95 per cent of the material for the changes to the Rules of Procedure proposed by the High Representative has been accepted. Additional 20 per cent of material proposed by Zivkovic personally has been accepted. Additional 5 per cent of the material, proposed by Niko Lozancic, has also been accepted.

These changes to the Bosnian Parliament’s Rules of Procedure are made for the purpose of improving the House of Representatives’ work,Zivkovic and Lozancic stated.

”We are of the opinion that the material meets the requirements of the House”, they said.

They added that there had been some proposals to change the Bosnian Parliament’s House of Representatives’ Rules of Procedure prior to October 19, when the High Representative imposed the measures; for some acts of the Rules of Procedure are disrupting the functioning of the Bosnian State Parliament.

Zivkovic announced that in the following few days the session if the Bosnian Parliament’s House of Representatives’ collegiums will take place and that the leaders of all the caucuses have been submitted the material. It is expected that the materials will be discussed at the session set for November 28.

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