Bosnian political representatives have engaged in the fourth consecutive day of the EU/US-mediated talks on electoral legislation reform on Sunday, after no concrete results were reached over the past days. The representatives of the ethnic Croats expressed disappointment with the outcome of the Saturday meeting.

The talks are held at the premises of the European Union Delegation in Sarajevo.

Representatives of the HDZ BiH, SDA, SBB BiH, the People and justice and the NES parties were seen arriving at the location in the morning.

Following the Saturday talks, representatives of the Croat political parties expressed discontent with how the talks evolved.

“We were close to the solution but we did not manage to finalise the negotiations. Some would like to brutally change the structure of Bosnia and Herzegovina,” said Dragan Covic, the leader of the HDZ BIH, the strongest Croat party.

He said “we were ready to make a huge concession concerning the functioning of the (the Bosniak-Croat entity) Federation, but I'm afraid that some are sending the messages via women associations and in some other ways, to which we will respond in a gentleman way,” without specifying to whom he refered.

The Croat leader also said that those who are destroying BiH by sending certain messages prior to the talks “are not negotiators with HDZ, or for the Croat people of BiH.”

The one who gave a statement for media prior to the talks on Saturday was Bakir Izetbegovic, the leader of the SDA party, who said he would not succumb to pressures in the negotiations.

Izetbegovic directly referred to Covic, saying that he would have to give up on things in the Federation and accused him of ruining the Bosniak-Croat relations with his support to Milorad Dodik, the nationalist Serb leader.

Another Croat participant in the talks, HDZ 1990 leader Ilija Cvitanovic also addressed media following the Saturday meeting.

“What hurt me and what was both disappointing and catastrophic, what destroys BiH – was the message conveyed by the SDA about the House of Peoples of the FBiH Parliament, that they wish to bring it to the level of the Council of Peoples of the Republika Srpska (Bosnia's Serb-majority region with centralised authority) and to create the Republika Srpska of the Bosniak people out of the Federation. And they expect to have a partner among the Croats for such talks,” he said.