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Text of report by Bosnia-Hercegovina public radio on 12 June
[Announcer] The Party of Democratic Progress [PDP] believes that the chairman of the Council of Ministers, Adnan Terzic, should urgently address a session of the state parliament with a proposal for a new minister of foreign affairs. Unless his proposal is supported by a parliamentary majority he should resign. The PDP says that Mladen Ivanic will stay in office until a new minister is appointed and that the denouement of the crisis depends on the SDS [Serb Democratic Party]. This report by Gordan Milosevic:
[Reporter] The acceptance of Mladen Ivanic's resignation is a hypocritical move which Adnan Terzic made in order to cause a crisis in B-H [Bosnia-Hercegovina], the PDP believes. The reasons for Ivanic's resignation were overcome a long time ago and therefore Terzic's move, although theoretically valid, essentially cannot be justified. Nevertheless, the PDP accepts Terzic's stance, but insists on respect for the law, i.e. Mladen Ivanic should remain in office until a new minister is appointed, rather than be immediately replaced by the ministry's official Ana Trisic-Babic. In order for the situation to be clear, the PDP calls on Terzic to verify his decision and the new candidate for minister of foreign affairs in the only possible way - to ask the B-H Parliamentary Assembly to vote on them.
This is what member of the PDP's main committee Rodoljub Trkulja said:
[Trkulja] Should there be no parliamentary majority, if they fail to support the candidate put forward by Terzic, in that case the logical consequence is that Mr Terzic should resign, which is also a stance assumed by the PDP.
[Reporter] Trkulja said that the PDP position was not to support Terzic's candidate for new foreign minister and to prevent his wilfulness and violation of the law. Trkulja said that the final denouement of the crisis would depend on the SDS:
[Trklja] The SDS should say whether it will support Mr Terzic's concept and whether it will give him support in the Council of Ministers for the appointment of new ministers.
[Reporter] A session of the state parliament should urgently resolve this situation, because B-H is currently the only country that has two ministers of foreign affairs, or none.
Source: BBC Monitoring / BH Radio 1, Sarajevo