Helez expects NATO candidate status, Knežević says that Reform Program does not imply membership

SARAJEVO, April 8 (FENA) - The BiH Minister of Defense Zukan Helez said today at the opening of the NATO Conference of Strategic Military Partners in Sarajevo that he expects that BiH will receive candidate status for membership in that alliance at the spring session of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly and that it will become part of NATO in the near future.