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Bosnia's Leaders Reach Agreement On Constitutional Changes |
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Tuesday, 22 November 2005Bosnia-Herzegovina's political leaders have reached an agreement in Washington in which they pledge to make changes to the country's constitution by March 2006, Bosnian media reported Tuesday in Sarajevo.
The media said the document was signed by leaders of eight of Bosnia's leading parties and reached in two days of negotiations held in Washington under U.S. auspices.
The document was due to be officially unveiled by U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice later in the day.
According to the media reports, the Bosnian parties said "we pledge to start a process of constitutional reform aimed at strengthening the powers of the state authorities, and which should define the work of the Parliament and the state Presidency".
The agreement poses a compromise among Bosnia's political leaders in changing the country's constitution first signed ten years ago in Dayton, Ohio, to stop the 1992-1995 conflict in Bosnia.
Considered as the perfect solution to stop the war in the former Yugoslav republic and help the country gets back on its feet, the constitution written in Dayton has been nowadays seen as an obstacle to further progress in Bosnia.
Despite the opposite positions of the leaders of the three Bosnia's ethnic groups - Croats, Moslems and Serbs - about changes to the constitution, the agreement was reached amid warnings from Washington about possible consequences, the reports said.
The consequences would include a slowing down of Bosnia's progress towards membership in the European Union and NATO, which would be a big step backward after the E.U. decided to start talks with Bosnia- Herzegovina on Stabilization and Association Agreement this week.
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Tuesday, 22 November 2005
Macedonian Information Agency-MIA
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