European Union (EU) High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy, Javier Solana, urged Bosnia and Herzegovina on Monday to push forward police reform, which is crucial for the signing of the Stabilization and Association Agreement (SAA) with the EU.
In a meeting here with EU Special Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina, Miroslav Lajcak, Solana called on Bosnia and Herzegovina's political party leaders to engage constructively on the latest initiative presented by Lajcak so as to remove the last obstacle preventing the country from concluding the SAA with the EU.
During the meeting, Solana and Lajcak discussed the current political situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina, mainly the police reform.
Solana expressed his full support for Lajcak's efforts to find a compromise on police reform with the country's party leaders.
Bosnia and Herzegovina's Muslims and Serbs, the country's two biggest ethnic groups, have rejected Lajcak's proposal for police reform, which would reduce power of entities police and strengthen the security forces on country level.
Under the Dayton peace accord, which ended Bosnia's bloody 1992- 1995 civil war, the country was divided into two entities, a Muslim-Croat federation and a Serb entity, each with most of the attributes of a state.
Signing of the SAA is considered the first step for West Balkan nations to join the EU.
Source: Xinhua
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