ORIGINAL COPY OF DAYTON PEACE AGREEMENT HAS NEVER BEEN STORED IN BOSNIAN STATE PRESIDENCY ARCHIVES

SARAJEVO, Bosnia (February 20,2008) – In accordance to the conclusion from the 31st session of the Bosnian State Presidency, held February 13, related to collecting of information on where the original Dayton Peace Agreement document actually is, activities have been initiated immediately and files have been submitted to the Bosnian Foreign Affairs Ministry and the Bosnian State Presidency Archives.

The Archives officials have sent a note to the Bosnian Presidency stating that the Dayton Agreement original is not one of the documents submitted to the institution.

The Bosnian Foreign Affairs Ministry has informed the Bosnian Presidency Secretariat that the original is not in the Ministry facilities.

It has been concluded by seeing the Protocol of Presidency of the Republic of Bosnia, from the time the Dayton Agreement was signed, as well as from the stime after that (December 1995/January 1996) that the original copy of the Dayton Peace Agreement had never been submitted and was never stored in the Bosnian Presidency Archives.

After the Bosnian Presidency members discuss and analyze the data submitted and collected so far, related to the Dayton Agreement, the Bosnian Presidency Secretariat will submit the Sarajevo Canton Prosecutor’s Office an answer presenting all the information at the disposal, the Bosnian State Presidency announced.
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