BOSNIAN FEDERATION LOWER HOUSE ADOPTS FAMILY BILL WITHOUT POLYGAMY AMENDMENT
BBC Monitoring International Reports - February 9, 2005

Excerpt from report by Bosnia-Hercegovina Federation News Agency FENA

Sarajevo, 9 February: At the session in Sarajevo today, the Bosnia-Hercegovina Federation Parliament's House of Representatives adopted by a majority of votes the Bosnia-Hercegovina Federation family bill. The (lower) house did not debate the amendment to the bill which has been the most mentioned issue in the parliament since yesterday.

The amendment has been put forward by SDA (Party of Democratic Action, main Muslim party) MP Mirsad Hasanic who proposed the right for all persons to two or more civil marriages at the same time.

House of Representatives Speaker Muhamed Ibrahimovic said during the MPs' vote on the bill that, in procedural terms, the mentioned amendment by Hasanic had been put forward too late. (Passage omitted)

Source: Federation News Agency, Sarajevo, in Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian 1415 gmt 9 Feb 05

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