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The BiH Coordination Team for the Economic Development proposed, at its session in Sarajevo started on Sunday and ended early on Monday, that the 2001 State Budget is increased by 54.8 million KM. Oslobodjenje reports that the Team also make a proposal how to spend a total of 281 million KM from the succession.

The High Representative, Wolfgang Petritsch, urged at a reception in regard of the BiH Statehood Day for an urgent adoption of the BiH Law on Holidays, which was currently a subject of the parliamentary procedure in the BiH House of Peoples. Petritsch appealed on all members of the parliament and all other authorized institutions to complete the pr [...]

At its session held in Sarajevo on Thursday, the BiH Council of Ministers confirmed a decision made by the BiH Federation Interior Ministry to revoke BiH citizenship status illegally given to 94 foreigners. According to Oslobodjenje, it is about the citizens of Tunis, Morocco, Egypt, Algeria, Yemen, Kuwait, Sudan and even Switzerland

UN/IPTF Spokesman for the Banja Luka ad Bihac regions Alun Roberts said on Wednesday that the BiH State Border Service (SBS) would take over control over the Banja Luka Mahovljani Airport on December 14. According to Oslobodjenje, the date was set at a recent meeting of the SDS representatives with the Republika Srpska and IPTF officials.

The Bosnian leadership pledged Tuesday to fulfil a number of conditions that would align the country with European standards after it becomes a member of the Council of Europe in 2002. "This document is one of the key parts of the path we must take for Bosnia-Herzegovina to become a normal, democratic" country, AFP quoted BiH Council of Ministers C [...]

The BiH Presidency members Jozo Krizanovic and Beriz Belkic met on Monday with an UNICEF delegation, headed by the agency’s special envoy for the Balkans Steven Allen, to discuss the position and the rights of the children in BiH, as well as the preparations for the a special UN session dedicated to the children.

SFOR Commander John Sylvester met in Sarajevo on Friday with the BiH Presidency members to inform them about the SFOR’s standpoints concerning the worldwide fight against terrorism with a special attention paid to the situation in BiH. Sylvester thanked the Presidency for the efforts being made by BiH in the anti-terrorism campaign. According [...]

Both Banja Luka dailies report that the Council of Ministers at yesterday’s session adopted a statement accepting terms for the BiH accession to the Council of Europe. The Council also tasked its Chair, Zlatko Lagumdzija, with signing this document on behalf of the CoM.

All media reported that the three members of the BiH Presidency asked on Wednesday in Banja Luka the Entity Constitutional Commissions to complete the proposal of constitutional modifications so as to enable the Entity Parliaments to adopt them by the end of the current year, thereby effectively implementing the BiH Constitutional court's

Upon the return of a BiH delegation from the UN General Assembly summit in New York, the chairman of the BiH Council of Ministers, Zlatko Lagumdzija, announced that, by 2010, BiH will become a rotating member of the UN Security Council and a full-fledged member of the Council of Europe