IRANIAN PRESIDENT MAHMOUD AHMADINEJAD SUBMITS BILLS ON SECURITY COOPERATION WITH BOSNIA TO IRANIAN MAJLIS

TEHRAN, Iran (March 11,2008) – The Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad submitted yesterday to the Iranian Majlis a bill on security cooperation between Iran and Bosnia. The bill has been proposed by the Iranian Interior Ministry and approved by President Ahmadinejad.

The proposed bill is to help deepen friendly ties between the two countries, underlining the significant role of both countries in security of their regions.

Given the importance of security ties at mutual and regional levels, the bill is to cover various issues such as campaign against organized crimes and fostering and upgrading the level of security for civilians.

The bill consists of one introduction and eleven clauses.
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SILAJDZIC: I WILL NEVER ACCEPT THE EXISTENCE OF ENTITY POLICE

SARAJEVO, Bosnia (March 11,2008) – The President of the Bosnian Presidency and the SBIH Party President Haris Silajdzic stated in Brcko that his party’s priority is Bosnia’s association to the EU. He added that he will never give up the police reform amendments that are based on the Mostar Declaration.

'”I will not accept the existence of entity police, especially the existence of the RS Police, for it is completely clear that that institution has been convicted of the crime of genocide at the ICJ, February 26 2007. I cannot accept that as a human being”, he said.

Commenting the constitutional changes, he stated that the
SBiH’s attitude remains unchanged. That means that Bosnia needs to be consisted of economic, not ethnic regions.

”That is not a new story. We used to have small municipalities, formed on the economic criteria. We are of the opinion that five regions are needed, even more. However, we oppose the existence of the three regions, for it means division and creation of the new entities”, President Silajdzic said.

During a meeting with the Mayor of Brcko Ante Domic, President Silajdzic supported the construction of the Orasje-Tuzla highway and the construction of a new bridge Brcko – Gunja, which is a joint project realized by Bosnia and Croatia.
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BOSNIAN FOREIGN AFFAIRS MINISTER SVEN ALKALAJ DISCUSSED WITH OSCE CHAIRMAN CONSTANZO PERIOTTA IMPLEMENTATION OF ANNEX 1-B OF DAYTON AGREEMENT

SARAJEVO, Bosnia (March 11,2008) - The Bosnian Minister of Foreign Affairs Sven Alkalaj met with representative of the OSCE Chair,Constanzo Periotta for implementation of Article 4 of Annex 1-B of the Dayton Peace Agreement.

Alkalaj informed Periotta about the progress Bosnia made within NATO’s Partnership for Peace Program (PFP) in expectations for NATO officials to reach a decision to improve relations with Bosnia at the forthcoming summit in Bucharest in the level of “intensive dialogue”.

Periotta expressed his satisfaction with the reform processes in Bosnia and cooperation with the permanent mission of Bosnia with OSCE in Vienna.
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GENOCIDAL SERBIA TRIES TO POSTPONE PUBLISHING OF A BOOK BY CARLA DEL PONTE

BELGRADE, Serbia (March 11,2008) – The genocidal Serbia has been trying to prevent publication pf a book written by the former International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) Chief Prosecutor Carla Del Ponte, for they think the texts could threaten the country’s cooperation with the Tribunal, the Blic Magazine writes.

An anonymous source from the magazine claims that the genocidal Serbia has been in fear for, having obtained the text of the book entitled ‘The Hunt’, subtitled ‘Me and War Crimes’, they think that the publishing of the book could threaten the country’s efforts in cooperation with the ICTY. That is why the country’s Action Team for Cooperation with the ICTY sent a letter to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon and ICTY President, demanding postponement of publishing of the book, which is being printed in Italy.

The Blic magazine source states that publishing of the book could make the cooperation more difficult, especially in the sense of the authorities’ attempts to bring the remaining ICTY fugitives to justice.

According to the Blic Magazine, Carla del Ponte reveals the details presented to her by Serbian officials in unofficial meetings, as well as the details related to the actions in the process of search for Serbian war criminals Ratko Mladic and Radovan Karadzic who have been charged by the ICTY with genocide and crimes against humanity committed during the 1992-1995 Serbian aggression against Bosnia.

The Magazine stated that the book tells details about the support network to the Serbian war criminals and their movements.

The former ICTY Chief Prosecutor, now Swiss Ambassador to Argentina, wrote her book in cooperation with the New York Times’ journalist Chuck Sudetic.
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