BOSNIAN AND SPANISH FOREIGN MINISTERS DISCUSSED CURRENT POLITICAL ISSUES

SARAJEVO, Bosnia (April 28,2008) – The Bosnian Foreign Affairs Minister Sven Alkalaj had a meeting on Friday with the Spanish Foreign Affairs Minister Rafael Descallar.

Alkalaj congratulated for the recently-completed elections in Spain and congratulated the minister for his re-election to the post. He also congratulated his colleague Moratinos.

Alkalaj informed Descallar on the current political situation in Bosnia, especially in the light of the recently-adopted police reform, as precondition for signing of the Stabilisation and Association Agreement (SAA) between Bosnia and the EU.He also emphasised the importance of the decision passed at NATO’s Bucharest Summit at which BiH was granted Intensive dialogue status.

Descallar expressed pleasure with adoption of the law on police reform and added that Spain has been carefully monitoring development of the political situation in Bosnia.

The Bosnian and Spanish Foreign Affairs Ministers concluded that there are no open issues between Bosnia and Spain and that bilateral and economic issues are at a satisfactory level.
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