SARAJEVO, Bosnia (October 10,2008) - According to the information that the Bosnian State Presidency got from the Bosnian Ministry of Foreign Affairs it is expected that the Proposal of decision on ratification of the Stabilisation and Association Agreement (SAA) between Bosnia and the European Union will be delivered to the Presidency no later than Monday; Damir Arnaut, Bosnian President Haris Silajdzic’s advisor said yesterday.
"The Bosnian Presidency will certainly not postpone sending this document to the Bosnian Parliament; Arnaut added.
According to the procedure, the Presidency sends this Document to the Bosnian State Parliament which gives consent for ratification and then sends it to the Presidency which gives the final decision on ratification.
The Bosnian Council of Ministera adopted the Proposal of decision on ratification of the SAA on the last session, and according to this decision the Bosnian Ministry of Foreign Affairs sends the Proposal to the the Bosnian Presidency for further process of ratification.
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Friday, October 10, 2008
Monday, October 6, 2008
BOSNIAN COUNCIL OF MINISTRES TO DISCUSS ACTION PLAN FOR EUROPEAN PARTNERSHIP
SARAJEVO, Bosnia (October 6,2008) - Action plan for realization of the priorities from European partnership has been prepared and this document will be considered at the session of the Bosnian Council of Ministers today, the Director of the Bosnian Directorate for European Integrations Osman Topcagic said.
Besides this document, which is the first out of 30 priorities of the European Commission, out of which fulfilment the assessment of Bosnia's progress depends, the Bosnian government should also consider the Report on what was accomplished from June 15th till today.
"This will be our proposal that we’re sending to Brussels to be included in the Annual report on progress," Topcagic said.
He announced that the Bosnian Council of Ministers should, today, form the temporary board for monitoring the implementation of the Stabilisation and Association Agreemnet between Bosnia and the European Union.
The meeting of this board, when the European Commission will give their assessment on the degree of the implementation of the agreement so far, is scheduled for October 7th.
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Besides this document, which is the first out of 30 priorities of the European Commission, out of which fulfilment the assessment of Bosnia's progress depends, the Bosnian government should also consider the Report on what was accomplished from June 15th till today.
"This will be our proposal that we’re sending to Brussels to be included in the Annual report on progress," Topcagic said.
He announced that the Bosnian Council of Ministers should, today, form the temporary board for monitoring the implementation of the Stabilisation and Association Agreemnet between Bosnia and the European Union.
The meeting of this board, when the European Commission will give their assessment on the degree of the implementation of the agreement so far, is scheduled for October 7th.
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Monday, March 3, 2008
SDA CAUCUS HAS PREPARED A NUMBER OF AMENDMENTS TO POLICE REFORM LAWS
SARAJEVO, Bosnia (March 3,2008) – The Bosnian Minister of Security Tarik Sadovic stated in the Bosnian capital Sarajevo that the SDA Party Caucus at the Bosnian Parliamentary Assembly prepared a “number of amendments to the two proposals for the police reform laws aimed to improve the laws’ texts”.
”We are not optimistic related to adoption of the amendments”, Sadovic stated and assed that both these laws were supported in the first reading in the parliamentary houses. What follows is the phase of amendments.
Sadovic expressed concerns over the fact that the text of the existing laws does not contain neither of the three EU principles on police reform.
”That worries us greatly. I clearly heard at the Peace Implementation Council (PIC) Main Board session that the Office of the International community's High Representative in Bosnia (OHR) and the EU Police Mission in Bosnia (EUPM) are authorized to state whether or not the EU principles have been implemented or not. If not, the question is why has the EU given up the principles”, Sadovic stated.
He added that he has had an opportunity to see almost all the documents of the PIC Main Board’s communiqué and several letters of the Commissioner for Expansion Olli Rehn.
”In each of the three letters, police reform based on the three principles was emphasized. It is strange for us at the SDA party that we are to be given something that is not the police reform, under the excuse for signing the SAA. My party’s position is that Bosnia should sign the Stabilisation and Association Agreement (SAA) between Bosnia and European Union, but we also need a good police reform. That means that wee need to get a multiethnic police, based on the EU standards and in the function of efficient fight against all forms of crime”, Minister Sadovic said.
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”We are not optimistic related to adoption of the amendments”, Sadovic stated and assed that both these laws were supported in the first reading in the parliamentary houses. What follows is the phase of amendments.
Sadovic expressed concerns over the fact that the text of the existing laws does not contain neither of the three EU principles on police reform.
”That worries us greatly. I clearly heard at the Peace Implementation Council (PIC) Main Board session that the Office of the International community's High Representative in Bosnia (OHR) and the EU Police Mission in Bosnia (EUPM) are authorized to state whether or not the EU principles have been implemented or not. If not, the question is why has the EU given up the principles”, Sadovic stated.
He added that he has had an opportunity to see almost all the documents of the PIC Main Board’s communiqué and several letters of the Commissioner for Expansion Olli Rehn.
”In each of the three letters, police reform based on the three principles was emphasized. It is strange for us at the SDA party that we are to be given something that is not the police reform, under the excuse for signing the SAA. My party’s position is that Bosnia should sign the Stabilisation and Association Agreement (SAA) between Bosnia and European Union, but we also need a good police reform. That means that wee need to get a multiethnic police, based on the EU standards and in the function of efficient fight against all forms of crime”, Minister Sadovic said.
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