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The presentation of the
ERBD Transition Report
- Banja Luka, Mon, 8 February at 12:00 Government RS building, Trg Republike Srpske 1, B. Luka
- Sarajevo, Tue, 9 February at 12:00 UNITIC amphitheatre, Fra Andjela Zvizdovica 1, Sarajevo
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| Country Profile |
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Area:
51,209 km2
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Population:
3.8 million
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Age structure:
0-14 years: 15% (male 353,163/female 331,133)
15-64 years: 70.4% (male 1,615,011/female 1,587,956)
65 years and over: 14.6% (male 273,240/female 391,695) (2007 est.)
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Population growth rate:
1.003% (2007 est.)
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Capital city:
Sarajevo
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Other major cities:
Banja Luka, Bihać, Mostar, Tuzla, Zenica
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Religions:
Muslim (44%), Orthodox Christian (32%), Roman Catholic (17%), Others (7%)
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Administrative organization:
Two entities (Federation of BiH and Republika Srpska) and Brčko District of BiH
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Government Structure:
BiH is a parliamentary democracy with a bicameral parliament (House of Representatives and House of Peoples), a three-member rotating presidency, a Council of Ministers, and Constitutional Court.
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Executive branch:
Chief of state:
Chairman of the Presidency Zeljko Komsic (chairman since 6 July 2007; and presidency member since 1 October 2006 - Croat);
other members of the three-member presidency rotating (every eight months):
Nebojsa Radmanovic (presidency member since 1 October 2006 - Serb);
and Haris Silajdzic (presidency member since 1 October 2006 - Bosniak)
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Legal system:
based on civil law system; has not accepted compulsory ICJ jurisdiction
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Legislative branch:
bicameral Parliamentary Assembly or Skupstina consists of the national House of Representatives or Predstavnicki Dom (42 seats, 28 seats allocated for the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina and 14 seats for the Republika Srpska; members elected by popular vote on the basis of proportional representation, to serve four-year terms); and the House of Peoples or Dom Naroda (15 seats, 5 Bosniak, 5 Croat, 5 Serb; members elected by the Bosniak/Croat Federation's House of Representatives and the Republika Srpska's National Assembly to serve four-year terms); note - Bosnia's election law specifies four-year terms for the state and first-order administrative division entity legislatures
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Judicial branch:
BH Constitutional Court (consists of nine members: four members are selected by the Bosniak/Croat Federation's House of Representatives, two members by the Republika Srpska's National Assembly, and three non-Bosnian members by the president of the European Court of Human Rights); BH State Court (consists of nine judges and three divisions - Administrative, Appellate and Criminal - having jurisdiction over cases related to state-level law and appellate jurisdiction over cases initiated in the entities)
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Currency:
Konvertibilna Marka (BAM-official; KM-common use)
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Exchange rate:
1 EUR = KM 1.95 (fixed exchange rate)
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