SDA TO SUPPORT NIKOLA SPIRIC'S NOMINATION

SARAJEVO, Bosnia (December 10,2007) – “Apart from certain displeasure with the work of Bosnia's Prime Minister in resignation Nikola Spiric, especially at the time of the technical mandate, the Party of Democratic Action (SDA) will support his nomination to the same position if that is the attitude of his party, namely, SNSD party. There is no other alternative”, Sulejman Tihic, SDA Party President told Bosnian media.

Answering the question when the conditions for signing of the Stabilisation and Association agreement between Bosnia and the European Union can be fulfilled, especially the conditions related to police reform, Tihic said that the job can be completed in a month.

He emphasized that it is up to the Bosnian Council of Ministers and the Bosnian Ministry of Security to turn the Police Implementation Action Plan into laws, including the formation of direction for police coordination at the state level, and formation of the independent board, support agency, police academy and institute for forensic sciences.

However, he warned that some differences arose during the latest negotiations related to the independent board, academy, coordination direction jurisdiction; that is the role of state and the entities in the process.