Swedish FM: Bosnia late with reforms

Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt says that Bosnia will not be able to apply for EU membership as long as it needs an international high representative.

Izvor: Tanjug

Wednesday, 08.04.2009.

09:53

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Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt says that Bosnia will not be able to apply for EU membership as long as it needs an international high representative. Bildt said that all the countries in the region, including Croatia, Serbia, Macedonia and Montenegro, were much further along in the reform process than Bosnia-Herzegovina. Swedish FM: Bosnia late with reforms “I don’t think that Bosnia has got that far yet. You cannot really combine that kind of imposed international presence with a real European integration process,” Bildt said. The Swedish minister hopes that an EU envoy will soon replace the international high representative, but in order for that to happen, many reforms first need to take place. Bildt arrived in Sarajevo with his Czech and French counterparts, Karel Schwarzenberg and Bernard Kushner, to meet with leaders of the different ethnic communities in Bosnia-Herzegovina and discuss reforms necessary for EU membership. Carl Bildt (FoNet, archive)

Swedish FM: Bosnia late with reforms

“I don’t think that Bosnia has got that far yet. You cannot really combine that kind of imposed international presence with a real European integration process,” Bildt said.

The Swedish minister hopes that an EU envoy will soon replace the international high representative, but in order for that to happen, many reforms first need to take place.

Bildt arrived in Sarajevo with his Czech and French counterparts, Karel Schwarzenberg and Bernard Kushner, to meet with leaders of the different ethnic communities in Bosnia-Herzegovina and discuss reforms necessary for EU membership.

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