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Bosnia gets prime minister three months after election Published: Friday, 5 January, 2007, 12:59 PM Doha Time SARAJEVO: Bosnia's tripartite presidency appointed Serb moderate Nikola Spiric as prime minister yesterday and asked him to form a government. "Today we voted and reached a decision that Nikola Spiric will be heading the government over the next four years," the chairman of Bosnia's tripartite presidency, Nebojsa Radmanovic, told journalists. Spiric, 50, was appointed after the seven Serb, Muslim and Croat parties that won the most votes in October 1 general elections reached agreement on forming a coalition government. Spiric, of the Union of Independent Social-Democrats (SNSD), is an economics expert and a former speaker of the central parliament. Other partners in the coalition government are, representing Muslims, the Party of Democratic Action (SDA) and Party for Bosnia (PBIH); the Serb groupings Party for Progress (PDP), Croat Democratic Union (HDZ), and HDZ 1990; as well as the multi-ethnic People's Party for Prosperity. Spiric will have one month to present to the parliament a nine-member cabinet in which four seats are reserved for Muslims, three for Croats and two for Serbs. The top international envoy to Bosnia, Christian Schwarz-Schilling of Germany, criticised local leaders last month over delays in forming a new government. After long negotiations, the coalition included unlikely partners with opposing views on Bosnia's future. Spiric said his government is to "do everything possible so that the standard of this country and its citizens would improve day by day". "Big challenges lie ahead of Bosnia and this is a time when I will talk less and work more with my team in order to meet all tasks that Bosnia has to fulfil." Eleven years after its 1992-1995 war, the Balkan country is trying to put in place reforms with the aim of joining the European Union. The former Yugoslav republic is struggling to reduce unemployment of around 40% and poverty of 20%. -- AFP +++ -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: [email protected] Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
