Ruling coalition leaders at the state level in Bosnia and Herzegovina met on Tuesday and agreed on a set of reform laws and remaining appointments in the Council of Ministers of Bosnia and Herzegovina, they confirmed in a brief press conference held after the meeting. Pročitaj više

Milorad Dodik, the leader of the SNSD party and President of Bosnia's Serb-majority Republika Srpska entity, said that the coalition lawmakers in the House of Representatives will vote for three laws at a session scheduled for later today – the law on the High Judicial and Prosecutorial Council, the law on the human rights ombudsman, and the law on the freedom of access to information.

Also, he said, the appointment of the state finance minister will be confirmed as well.

According to Dodik, they also agreed that the Council of Ministers will discuss and confirm Proposal of Law on Court of BiH, and new law on foreigners, which will be then forwarded to the House of Representatives and the House of Peoples.

“With this we can give BiH a chance to get the status of negotiator (with EU) by end of the year,” Dodik said.

Dragan Covic, the leader of the HDZ BIH party, said he expected everything that the European Union set before BiH as a condition on the road to the membership to be solved in the upcoming period.

The laws agreed today should be adopted by the end of the month, he stressed.

Covic also hopes that in the next two to three months all 14 conditions on the road to the EU will be met “in this atmosphere.”

Nermin Niksic, the leader of the SDP party and prime minister of the Bosniak-Croat Federation entity (FBiH), said that hopefully “our partners in Brussels and the EU will recognise that and that we will take momentum on that path in the upcoming period.”

“We are not done with this, we're moving forward,” stressed Niksic.

He also announced another meeting in 15 days, when the leaders will review what was done and talk about further steps.

“Today we showed together that it is in our interest to work on the improvement and creation of better conditions for all citizens of BiH. Every agreement that we reach is only another step on that path. What we do has no alternative,” he underlined.