The BiH House of Representatives should tomorrow ask the Joint BiH Defence and Security Committee to reverse their decision on the Police Laws and allow them to be discussed by the BiH Parliament.

This joint position was taken by EU Special Representative Miroslav Lajčák, Head of the European Commission’s Delegation to Bosnia and Herzegovina, Dimitris Kourkoulas, and Head of the EU Police Mission in BiH, Brigadier General Vincenzo Coppola, today.

What is at stake here is more than Police Reform itself. The stance that parliamentary parties adopt will decide whether it is possible to finally open the European Perspective for which BiH citizens yearn. This is one of the most important decisions this country has faced and it should be taken by the full Parliament, not by a 12 member Committee.

The EU and the International Community are unanimous on this matter said the three heads of mission today. They called on BiH’s members of parliament to remember their responsibility for securing the country’s European perspective.