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WHERE TO? BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA

16 Feb 2022

Commit to reforms for NATO and the EU These systemic weaknesses - and given what happened in BiH in the 1990s - should be a warning to decision-makers and quasi-political elites to focus on reforms and the integration of the country into both NATO and the European Union, instead of constant political block- ades and the manufacturing of crises. [...] “Thirty years after the beginning of the final disintegration of the SFRY, one gets the impression that the situation in society is the same, or at least similar, as in the wake of the war,” Bubonjić and Vujatović point out. [...] Considering the essence of the process - and the importance for BiH to continue implementing the reforms needed for NATO membership in the foreseeable future - it is less import- ant at this point what the title of the document is, or the name of the commission working on it. [...] The Embassy was reacting to the continuation of cooperation in general, but also to the reforms (important for po- tential membership) implemented by the Council of Ministers (via the new Reform Program and the NATO Cooperation Commission) and the Parliament (via the Working Group for Cooperation with NATO). [...] Item 6 reads: “Due to the overall role of the NATO pact, from the illegal bombing of Serbia in 1999, unsupported by a UN Security Council decision, to Annex 11 of the rejected Ahtisaari Plan, which stipu- lates that NATO is the ‘final body’ of government in an ‘independent Kosovo’, the National Assembly announces the military neutrality of the Republic of Serbia in relation to existing military al.
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Bosnia and Herzegovina