BiH's Spiric authorised to sign SAA

05/06/2008

SARAJEVO, Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) -- The tripartite presidency formally approved Wednesday (June 4th) the signing of the Stabilisation and Association Agreement with the EU on June 16th in Luxembourg and authorised Prime Minister Nikola Spiric to put his pen to the document. Presidency Chairman Haris Silajdzic told reporters that BiH hopes to receive EU candidate status by 2010, clearing the way for full membership in 2014. (Dnevni Avaz, Blic - 05/06/08; Fena, RTRS - 04/06/08)