01/09/2009 Monitoring
Strasbourg, 01.09.200 – Mevlüt Çavusoglu (Turkey, EDG) and Kimmo Sasi (Finland, EPP/CD), co-rapporteurs of the Monitoring Committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) on Bosnia and Herzegovina, will start today a four-day fact-finding visit to Banja Luka, Mostar and Sarajevo to take stock of the implementation of Resolution 1626 (2008) on the honouring of obligations and commitments by Bosnia and Herzegovina towards the Council of Europe, and of progress with regard to the constitutional reform.
Talks are scheduled, in particular, with the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Željko Komšic, Haris Silajdžic and Nebojša Radmanovic, the Minister of Foreign Affairs Sven Alkalaj, the Speaker of the National Assembly of the Republika Srpska Igor Radojicic, and the Prime Minister of the Republika Srpska Milorad Dodik. They will also speak with representatives of the Constitutional Court, and with representatives of various political parties and the diplomatic corps.