Solana: Bosnia lagging behind

Javier Solana says that he is not happy with the speed at which Bosnia is meeting its conditions for EU integration.

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Wednesday, 17.09.2008.

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Javier Solana says that he is not happy with the speed at which Bosnia is meeting its conditions for EU integration. The EU foreign and security policies chief said that three months had passed since Bosnia-Herzegovina signed the Stabilization and Association Agreement (SAA), but that there was no visible progress, only stagnation. Solana: Bosnia lagging behind “The promised action plan has stopped and there is no progress. The signed agreement has not been ratified by Bosnia-Herzegovina, and the monthly meetings of the Bosnian Council of Ministers on European integration issues have yet to prove their good intentions by being held on a regular basis,” Solana told daily Dnevni Avaz. He called on the country’s political leaders to join forces for EU integration projects and not to allow Bosnia-Herzegovina to fall behind. “A lot more could have been done, and the European Commission report on Bosnia-Herzegovina’s progress will give an objective evaluation on November 5,” the EU foreign policy chief said. He said that the forthcoming local elections in October would be a good chance to let voters have their say on what direction they wanted the country to take in future. Solana said that he hoped that the majority of voters would take the opportunity to choose candidates in favor of a European future, and not a nationalist past. He said that progress in European integration depended solely on meeting the necessary conditions, adding that constitutional reform must also be addressed by domestic politicians, and that it could not be imposed. Solana will meet in Brussels today with Chairman of the Bosnian Council of Ministers Nikola Spiric to discuss the situation in the country.

Solana: Bosnia lagging behind

“The promised action plan has stopped and there is no progress. The signed agreement has not been ratified by Bosnia-Herzegovina, and the monthly meetings of the Bosnian Council of Ministers on European integration issues have yet to prove their good intentions by being held on a regular basis,” Solana told daily Dnevni Avaz.

He called on the country’s political leaders to join forces for EU integration projects and not to allow Bosnia-Herzegovina to fall behind.

“A lot more could have been done, and the European Commission report on Bosnia-Herzegovina’s progress will give an objective evaluation on November 5,” the EU foreign policy chief said.

He said that the forthcoming local elections in October would be a good chance to let voters have their say on what direction they wanted the country to take in future.

Solana said that he hoped that the majority of voters would take the opportunity to choose candidates in favor of a European future, and not a nationalist past.

He said that progress in European integration depended solely on meeting the necessary conditions, adding that constitutional reform must also be addressed by domestic politicians, and that it could not be imposed.

Solana will meet in Brussels today with Chairman of the Bosnian Council of Ministers Nikola Špirić to discuss the situation in the country.

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