BRUSSELS -- Bosnian leaders are set to agree Monday to push ahead with police reform, a diplomat said Saturday.
Source: AP
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Leaders of the country's semiautonomous Bosnian Serb Republic and a Croat-Bosniak Federation — are poised to move ahead with closer integration of the separate forces, the European diplomat told The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue.
The diplomat said the first part of the reform would include strengthening central police bodies, such as forensic and training services, which span the ethnic divide. Further reform will take place after the country's constitution is changed, he said.
At the moment, each mini-state has had an independent police force.
The diplomat said that, if agreement on the police reform is reached Monday, the EU would move ahead with initialing a Stabilization and Association Agreement with Bosnia — an important pre-membership accord — later in the week. Bosnia remains the only former Yugoslav state without such an agreement with the EU.
Bosnia's journey toward EU membership will remain long and arduous. Among the Western Balkans nations striving for accession to the 27-nation bloc, only Croatia may be ready to join before the end of the decade, according to an EU report released earlier this month.
All the others will need at least five years to prepare themselves economically and politically.
EU Enlargement Commissioner Olli Rehn said in a statement Friday that he would travel to Sarajevo on Monday "to discuss with the Bosnian Presidency, the government and party leaders whether there is sufficient agreement on the police reform to initial the Stabilization and Association Agreement."
On Friday, Bosnian Serb leaders dropped objections to a reform of parliamentary voting rules, in a step toward ending the most serious political crisis since the end of the 1992-95 Bosnian War.
The leaders of Bosnia's main political parties and parliament agreed to support the reform, which was drawn up by the country's international administrator.
The reforms will change the way a quorum is calculated, to make it more difficult for legislators and cabinet officers to block action simply by not showing up.
Bosnia has been overseen by an administrator since the Dayton peace agreement that ended the 1992-95 Bosnian war and divided the country into the two mini-states.
The current administrator, Slovak diplomat Miroslav Lajčak, is seeking to create a stable central government for both Serb and Bosnian-Croat sides of Bosnia.
everbody who is capeable of reading AND understanding, knows that.
the so-called parliaments still can be blocked without apearence (why should anybody in the serb post-bosnian state care about a state on the paper?).
and even if it would have been changed, then we would block it by appearence and saying no! just to inform you, cause logic doesnīt seem to be your strongest plus.
the slovak bought himself time, thatīs it!
the eu realized after 12 years to deal just with the 50% that left after their "victory" against the serbs, now itīs your turn to also enter 21st century. your welcomed!
(raso, 2 December 2007 17:29)
Dodic just made 180 degree turn from his stubborn refusal to implement police reform and to put the SA agreement on the tracks to the EU. He saw the handwriting on the wall the end of Srpska. By listening to and following in big brother Serbia footsteps is and was big loosing preposition. Kostunica must be stewing furiously mad at Dodic especially when they had an understanding and agreements to stick together no matter what. Especially when Serbia spent 100s of millions propping up Srpskas economy and government to buy its unwavering loyalty.
(Lenard, 2 December 2007 14:17)
Under the condition of anonymity - how common in diplomatic circles!
This phrase, covering up leaks from various circles, has been the mill stone round the neck of Bosnia's development and future for almost a decade. Small individuals, that suddenly have something that may pay attention to their own importance. However, finally, a diplomat, surprisingly anonymous, accept the fact, that a FULL reform of the Bosnian police cannot be made before change of the Bosnian three constitutions. All the taxpayers in the world, that finance the Bonian international circus, should ask questions "why it took more than a decade to realize that the Dayton Agrement is full of incomplete and unusable chapters and annexes. The part with the three constitutions being the worst hurdle towards progress in Bosnia."
(invisibleTheMan, 2 December 2007 12:54)
Dodic just made 180 degree turn from his stubborn refusal to implement police reform and to put the SA agreement on the tracks to the EU. He saw the handwriting on the wall the end of Srpska. By listening to and following in big brother Serbia footsteps is and was big loosing preposition. Kostunica must be stewing furiously mad at Dodic especially when they had an understanding and agreements to stick together no matter what. Especially when Serbia spent 100s of millions propping up Srpskas economy and government to buy its unwavering loyalty.
(Lenard, 2 December 2007 14:17)
everbody who is capeable of reading AND understanding, knows that.
the so-called parliaments still can be blocked without apearence (why should anybody in the serb post-bosnian state care about a state on the paper?).
and even if it would have been changed, then we would block it by appearence and saying no! just to inform you, cause logic doesnīt seem to be your strongest plus.
the slovak bought himself time, thatīs it!
the eu realized after 12 years to deal just with the 50% that left after their "victory" against the serbs, now itīs your turn to also enter 21st century. your welcomed!
(raso, 2 December 2007 17:29)
Under the condition of anonymity - how common in diplomatic circles!
This phrase, covering up leaks from various circles, has been the mill stone round the neck of Bosnia's development and future for almost a decade. Small individuals, that suddenly have something that may pay attention to their own importance. However, finally, a diplomat, surprisingly anonymous, accept the fact, that a FULL reform of the Bosnian police cannot be made before change of the Bosnian three constitutions. All the taxpayers in the world, that finance the Bonian international circus, should ask questions "why it took more than a decade to realize that the Dayton Agrement is full of incomplete and unusable chapters and annexes. The part with the three constitutions being the worst hurdle towards progress in Bosnia."
(invisibleTheMan, 2 December 2007 12:54)
Dodic just made 180 degree turn from his stubborn refusal to implement police reform and to put the SA agreement on the tracks to the EU. He saw the handwriting on the wall the end of Srpska. By listening to and following in big brother Serbia footsteps is and was big loosing preposition. Kostunica must be stewing furiously mad at Dodic especially when they had an understanding and agreements to stick together no matter what. Especially when Serbia spent 100s of millions propping up Srpskas economy and government to buy its unwavering loyalty.
(Lenard, 2 December 2007 14:17)
everbody who is capeable of reading AND understanding, knows that.
the so-called parliaments still can be blocked without apearence (why should anybody in the serb post-bosnian state care about a state on the paper?).
and even if it would have been changed, then we would block it by appearence and saying no! just to inform you, cause logic doesnīt seem to be your strongest plus.
the slovak bought himself time, thatīs it!
the eu realized after 12 years to deal just with the 50% that left after their "victory" against the serbs, now itīs your turn to also enter 21st century. your welcomed!
(raso, 2 December 2007 17:29)
Under the condition of anonymity - how common in diplomatic circles!
This phrase, covering up leaks from various circles, has been the mill stone round the neck of Bosnia's development and future for almost a decade. Small individuals, that suddenly have something that may pay attention to their own importance. However, finally, a diplomat, surprisingly anonymous, accept the fact, that a FULL reform of the Bosnian police cannot be made before change of the Bosnian three constitutions. All the taxpayers in the world, that finance the Bonian international circus, should ask questions "why it took more than a decade to realize that the Dayton Agrement is full of incomplete and unusable chapters and annexes. The part with the three constitutions being the worst hurdle towards progress in Bosnia."
(invisibleTheMan, 2 December 2007 12:54)