Izetbegović to attend NATO summit in Warsaw on June 9

The BiH Presidency accepted the invitation of NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, extended to the Chairman of the BiH Presidency Bakir Izetbegović, to participate in the NATO summit in the Republic of Poland, in Warsaw, which will be held on July 9, 2016, reports the BiH news agency Patria.

The BiH Presidency adopted the Decision on Bosnia and Herzegovina's accession to the Protocol on Amendments and Additions to the International Convention on the Simplification and Harmonization of Customs Procedures.

The BiH Presidency approved the conclusion of the Administrative Agreement on pre-election assistance for the 2016 Local Elections between the Central Election Commission of BiH and the Council of Europe, and the Protocol on the use of a common list of translators in the field of migration and asylum.

The BiH Presidency accepted the Agreement between the Council of Ministers of BiH and the Federal Government of Austria on the exchange and mutual protection of classified information, and the Agreement between Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Republic of Azerbaijan on international road transport.

The position of the BiH Presidency is that Bosnia and Herzegovina should participate in the capital of the Fund for Migrants and Refugees established within the Council of Europe Development Bank. The Ministry of Finance and Treasury of BiH is tasked, in cooperation with the Ministry of Human Rights and Refugees of BiH, to determine the amount of donor funds that BiH could pay into the Fund.

The BiH Presidency ratified the Protocol on Cross-Border Surveillance between the Council of Ministers of BiH and the Government of Montenegro, and the Note Verbale – exchange of notes between the Council of Ministers of BiH and the Government of the People's Republic of China on the provision of grant assistance.