SARAJEVO, Bosnia (July 24,2008) - The Bosnian Minister of Security Tarik Sadovic and Norway’s Ambassador to Bosnia Jan Braathu signed a Visa Facilitation Agreement between Bosnia and Norway in the Bosnian capital Sarajevo.
The agreement will become effective as soon as the process of its ratification is over.
There are approximately 20,000 Bosnian citizens living in Norway. Although not an EU member, Norway is a full member of the Schengen cooperation project, Ambassador Braathu underlined.
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Thursday, July 24, 2008
Wednesday, July 2, 2008
BOSNIA AND DENMARK SIGN VISA FACILITATION AGREEMENT
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (July 2,2008) - A visa facilitation agreement was signed in Copenhagen today by representatives of Bosnia and Denmark. The agreement refers to 20 different categories of Bosnian citizens when they apply for visa to Denmark.
The Bosnian Minister of Security Tarik Sadovic thanked the Danish authorities for accepting a large number of refugees from Bosnia during the 1992-1995 Serbian,Montenegrin and Croatian aggressions against Bosnia, and for helping with the post-war reconstruction of Bosnia.
This agreement is just like the one Bosnia already signed with the EU in late 2007.
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The Bosnian Minister of Security Tarik Sadovic thanked the Danish authorities for accepting a large number of refugees from Bosnia during the 1992-1995 Serbian,Montenegrin and Croatian aggressions against Bosnia, and for helping with the post-war reconstruction of Bosnia.
This agreement is just like the one Bosnia already signed with the EU in late 2007.
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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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Saturday, March 1, 2008
BOSNIA TO INTENSIFY COOPERATION WITH CROATIA
SARAJEVO, Bosnia (March 1,2008) – The Bosnian Deputy Prime Minister and the Bosnian Minister of Security Tarik Sadovic had a meeting yesterday in the Bosnian capital Sarajevo with the Croatian Deputy Prime Minister Djurdja Adlesic.
Sadovic told the press after the meeting that he informed the guest about all the conclusions of the Peace Implementation Council (PIC).
”I repeated that signing of the Stabilisation and Association Agreement (SAA) is one of the conditions and the other is a positive mark of the PIC Main Board on the entire situation in Bosnia One of the goals set that will be especially monitored by the Office of the International Community's High Representative in Bosnia (OHR) is the issue of finding an acceptable and sustainable solution for military property and the issue of full implementation of the arbitrage for the Brcko District”, Sadovic said.
He added that fiscal sustainability has a special importance and added that the Bosnian Council of Ministers developed the Law on Fiscal council and sent it to the parliamentary procedure.
Also, it is of the outmost importance for obtaining the rule of law in Bosnia to pass and adopt a national strategy on movement and stay of foreigners and adoption of the judiciary sector reform strategy.
”Directors of the PIC Main Board were united in the attitude (Russian Federation included) that the Dayton Agreement is to be fully implemented and emphasized that BiH is a country made up of two entities and three constitutional peoples and that the open issues need to be solved in Bosnia in a more responsible way”, Sadovic said.
The two officials talked at the meeting about the issue of joint activities that are taken in relation to the borders between Bosnia and Croatia.
”We expressed pleasure over the fact that Bosnia is about to complete the project of sealing the locations suitable for illegal crossing of the state border. Croatia will soon do the same”, Sadovic said.
They also expressed pleasure that trade exchange between the two countries is increasing.
Sadovic stated that his guest informed him that Croatia expects an invitation to NATO. “This is good news..This, in a way, can be a good message and a guarantee for Bosnia and other countries of the region”.
The Croatian Deputy Prime Minster Djurdja Adlesic thanked for support Croatia has from its neighbours in the integration processes.
She emphasized that Croatia is ready to associate to NATO.
She said that it is extremely important for BiH to have safe neighbourhood and added that Croatia has been monitoring all the events in Bosnia.
”We want to strengthen cooperation at the economic level and prepare for association to the EU”, Adlesic said.
Answering the journalist’s question if Croatian government has discussed Bosnian Presidency member Haris Silajdzic’s veto regarding the Bosnian Presidency’s Decision on dual citizenship between Bosnia and Croatia, Adlesic stated that the Croatian government has not yet discussed the issue.
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Sadovic told the press after the meeting that he informed the guest about all the conclusions of the Peace Implementation Council (PIC).
”I repeated that signing of the Stabilisation and Association Agreement (SAA) is one of the conditions and the other is a positive mark of the PIC Main Board on the entire situation in Bosnia One of the goals set that will be especially monitored by the Office of the International Community's High Representative in Bosnia (OHR) is the issue of finding an acceptable and sustainable solution for military property and the issue of full implementation of the arbitrage for the Brcko District”, Sadovic said.
He added that fiscal sustainability has a special importance and added that the Bosnian Council of Ministers developed the Law on Fiscal council and sent it to the parliamentary procedure.
Also, it is of the outmost importance for obtaining the rule of law in Bosnia to pass and adopt a national strategy on movement and stay of foreigners and adoption of the judiciary sector reform strategy.
”Directors of the PIC Main Board were united in the attitude (Russian Federation included) that the Dayton Agreement is to be fully implemented and emphasized that BiH is a country made up of two entities and three constitutional peoples and that the open issues need to be solved in Bosnia in a more responsible way”, Sadovic said.
The two officials talked at the meeting about the issue of joint activities that are taken in relation to the borders between Bosnia and Croatia.
”We expressed pleasure over the fact that Bosnia is about to complete the project of sealing the locations suitable for illegal crossing of the state border. Croatia will soon do the same”, Sadovic said.
They also expressed pleasure that trade exchange between the two countries is increasing.
Sadovic stated that his guest informed him that Croatia expects an invitation to NATO. “This is good news..This, in a way, can be a good message and a guarantee for Bosnia and other countries of the region”.
The Croatian Deputy Prime Minster Djurdja Adlesic thanked for support Croatia has from its neighbours in the integration processes.
She emphasized that Croatia is ready to associate to NATO.
She said that it is extremely important for BiH to have safe neighbourhood and added that Croatia has been monitoring all the events in Bosnia.
”We want to strengthen cooperation at the economic level and prepare for association to the EU”, Adlesic said.
Answering the journalist’s question if Croatian government has discussed Bosnian Presidency member Haris Silajdzic’s veto regarding the Bosnian Presidency’s Decision on dual citizenship between Bosnia and Croatia, Adlesic stated that the Croatian government has not yet discussed the issue.
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