Design of Bosnia's common currency to be announced tomorrow

Carlos Westendorp, the international community's High Representative in Bosnia, has reached a decision on the design of the new Bosnia-Hercegovina currency which he will announce on Wednesday, Bosnian government television reported on Tuesday night.

"We have learned from reliable diplomatic sources that the currency will not carry national symbols," the TV reported.

It said that in line with proposals put forward by the tripartite collective Bosnian presidency members, the currency would depict "famous authors, poets and other historical personalities of Bosnia-Hercegovina".

"Our diplomatic source also confirmed that inscriptions on all denominations will be in both the Latin and Cyrillic alphabets, and that banknotes for both entities will be printed in the same colours and be of the same size," the TV said.

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