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At a joint press conference in Sarajevo on Wednesday, the agencies engaged in the Property Law Implementation Plan (PLIP) presented the 2001 results achieved the property repossession process welcoming the sustained progress in property law implementation during the year. As of the end of last year, 102 609 property claims in Bosnia and Herzegovina [...]

According to Oslobodjenje, at its session in Sarajevo on Tuesday, the BiH House of Representatives rejected to vote on the BiH Council of Ministers information related to the extradition of the "Algerian Group." The deputies concluded they would re-consider the information only after the BiH Federation Supreme Court and the BiH Human Rights Chamber [...]

BiH Federation Minister of Urban Planning Ramiz Mehmedagic told Dnevni Avaz that the High Representative’s decision related to the preservation of the national monuments would ensure their restoration without a complicated procedure of getting necessary approvals. He said that the State Commission for the Preservation of the National Monument [...]

Sunday’s Oslobodjenje reports that Chairman of the BiH Council of Ministers Zlatko Lagumdzija, who attended the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympic Games met on Saturday in Salt Lake City with US President George Bush. Bush thanked Lagumdzija on efforts being made by the BiH authorities in the framework of world-wide fight against terroris [...]

Zagreb’s Vecernji List reports that apart from Zlatko Lagumdzija and his SDP, other political parties are also preparing to lobby with Paddy Ashdown, the most likely new High Representative in BiH. Circles close to the ruling Alliance leaked the information that other party representatives are preparing for the meeting with Ashdown. The daily [...]

The deputy Speaker of the BIH Parliament’s House of Peoples, Nikola Spiric, said that the draft budget for joint institutions will not be sent into parliamentary procedure until the article on the financing of a BiH lawsuit against Yugoslavia before the international court of justice at The Hague is dropped. According to BiH Radio 1, Spiric i [...]

During a session on Tuesday, members of the BiH Presidency agreed not to modify the proposed 2002 budget for financing of the state institutions and which has already been submitted to the Parliament for review. The proposed budget will thus contain the provision providing for financing of the BIH legal council in the lawsuit against Yugoslavia bef [...]

Oslobodjenje reports, quoting anonymous sources, that Bosniak and Croat members of the BIH Presidency, Beriz Belkic and Jozo Krizanovic, will deny on Tuesday (today) the right of their Serb colleague to veto the proposed state budget for 2002 claiming the vital national interest clause. According to the daily, the two believe that Zivko Radisic doe [...]