11.04.1996 OHR Sarajevo

Inaugural session of the Working Group on Social Security and Personal Documentation

PRESS RELEASE

Federation Minister for Social Affairs, Displaced Persons and Refugees, Mr. Ferid Alic, and Republika Srpska Minister for Health, Labour and Social Welfare, Dr. Dragan Kalanic, met on 11 April at the Office of the High Representative for the inaugural session of the Working Group on Social Security and Personal Documentation. They agreed on further meetings to be held on the level of the competent ministers and on expert level to solve the problems pertaining to public records and the issuance of official documents in the fields of:

  1. public pension funds
  2. work and employment
  3. education
  4. health insurance and health care

Further meetings on these subjects will take place between now and the beginning of May in order to seek solutions to existing problems affecting the daily life of a great number of people in Bosnia and Herzegovina.