BOSNIA SETS MAKEUP OF NEW GOVERNMENT.Byline: Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. After haggling since September elections, Bosnia's three-member presidency agreed Saturday on the makeup of a new government, with a Bosnian Serb and a Muslim to rotate weekly in the post of de facto [Latin, In fact.] In fact, in deed, actually. This phrase is used to characterize an officer, a government, a past action, or a state of affairs that must be accepted for all practical purposes, but is illegal or illegitimate. prime minister. The six-person, ethnically balanced Council of Ministers also will include a Croat as vice chairperson chairperson Chairman The head of an academic department. See 'Chair.', Cf Chief. and as foreign minister, a Bosnian Serb as minister for civil affairs Designated Active and Reserve component forces and units organized, trained, and equipped specifically to conduct civil affairs activities and to support civil-military operations. Also called CA. See also civil affairs activities; civil-military operations. and communications and a Bosnian Muslim as minister for foreign trade and economic relations. Each minister will have two deputies representing Bosnia's other two ethnic groups. ``Some people might say it's a complicated structure, some people might say it's extravagant,'' international mediator mediator n. a person who conducts mediation. A mediator is usually a lawyer, or retired judge, but can be a non-attorney specialist in the subject matter (like child custody) who tries to bring people and their disputes to early resolution through a conference. Michael Steiner said. ``But it is a structure which takes into account that after the war . . . there is still so much mistrust.'' At a news conference to present the agreement, Steiner called it another step on the road to fulfilling the Dayton peace accord and giving Bosnia a single, common government. In the first elections since fighting stopped a year ago, voters chose a Serb, a Croat and a Muslim to serve on a three-member presidency. Bosnian voters also selected a joint legislature. Steiner and his boss, the civilian peace coordinator Carl Bildt Nils Daniel Carl Bildt , KCMG (born July 15, 1949) is a Swedish politician and diplomat, currently serving as Minister for Foreign Affairs in the cabinet of Fredrik Reinfeldt. , have been pressing Bosnia's co-presidents - one from each ethnic group - to reach an agreement in time for several international conferences in early December. |
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