The EU Special Representative, Miroslav Lajčák, met with Javier Solana, the EU High Representative for Common Foreign and Security Policy, in Brussels today to review areas in which Bosnia and Herzegovina has to make progress to be able to sign a Stabilisation and Association Agreement with the European Union.

Ambassador Lajčák, who has made developing a European agenda one of his top priorities, also informed Dr Solana of his recent talks with key officials and party leaders from across Bosnia and Herzegovina.

During these talks, the EU Special Representative had urged political leaders to work towards compromise in a number of crucial areas, such as police restructuring.

“Bosnia and Herzegovina will fall further behind its neighbours and all its citizens will be losers, unless political leaders can overcome their differences and forge compromises,” Ambassador Lajčák said.

During his visit to Brussels, Ambassador Lajčák also participated in a conference that brought together all nine EU Special Representatives appointed by the Council of the European Union in different regions of the world for an exchange of views on their respective experiences.