Strasbourg, 14 February 2017 – The Report on the 2016 Commission Report on Bosnia and Herzegovina was on the agenda of the today’s plenary session in Strasbourg.
The MEP Željana Zovko stated at the plenary session as follows: “The Parliament showed through the previous resolutions that the only integrating factor bringing peace and security to Bosnia and Herzegovina was federalism, and not unitarism or separatism.
Federalism is a “mean path” which the country has to take in order to put an end to the two-decade long search for a suitable model for reconciling the three communities, which had gone through the war and have been looking for a common future, in which their differences shall be duly respected. The opponents of the “mean path”, i.e., federalism, have been offering the same fruitless policies for twenty years already, ever since the Dayton-Paris Accords. Constitutivity of all three nations is a very basis of the Dayton Agreement, the country’s integrating factor and warranty of its stability.
Changes to the Election Law based on the principle of federalism and legitimate representation is the very first step on the way to restoring trust and stability and putting an end to the situation in which political representatives of one nation may be elected by voters from other nation’s corpus. That should be followed by the implementation of the Constitutional Court ruling, which shall restore democracy into the local community, as it is the case in Mostar, the so-called hostage-city, which has to put up with the imposed unconstitutional Statute for years. We also hope for opening a wider discussion on the Constitutional changes, which shall finally bring equality and safety for all three nations in Bosnia and Herzegovina.“
Voting on the Resolution of the European Parliament on the 2016 Commission Report on Bosnia and Herzegovina by the Foreign Affairs Committee is scheduled for tomorrow, at noon.