BRITISH PARLIAMENT DELEGATION VISITS BOSNIA

SARAJEVO, Bosnia (April 1,2008) – Delegation of the British Group in the Inter-Parliamentary Union will visit Bosnia.Members of the delegation met with the British Ambassador to Bosnia Matthew Rycroft yesterday, March 31. The delegation will also meet with members of Inter-Parliamentary Union of the Bosnian Parliament and with members of both the Houses’ Collegiums.

A roundtable session will be held with chairpersons of commissions of the foreign policy, trade and human rights boards, as well as with representatives of parliamentary position and opposition, heads of the Bosnian Parliamentary Assembly caucuses and representatives of the British Government’s Department for International development. The meeting will focus on the role of parliaments in Great Britain and Bosnia.

In continuation of the five-day visit, the British parliamentary delegation will meet with representatives of executive and legislative authority at the entity and state level.
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