High Representative and EU Special Representative Valentin Inzko met today in Rome with Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs Franco Frattini in order to inform him of the political situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the progress this country has made and priorities in the forthcoming period.

Inzko told Minister Frattini that he supported dialogue and reaching compromise, which the “Prud Process” was, but he emphasized that considerable results must be made if these processes were to have a real and tangible meaning. “When it comes to my priorities as the High Representative of the International Community, they are directed at the transition of the OHR into an Office of the European Union Special Representative, which can only be achieved by means of meeting the five objectives and two conditions set by the Peace Implementation Council”, Inzko said. 

In today’s meeting in Rome, they also discussed the recent joint visit of US Vice-President Joseph Biden and EU High Representative for Common Foreign and Security Policy Javier Solana to Bosnia and Herzegovina. «Biden and Solana sent a clear message to BiH leaders that the USA and the EU supported Euro-Atlantic integration of BiH but local authorities were the ones who must fulfill their tasks, starting from the PIC’s objectives and conditions, and that negative rhetoric and denial of the state, such as the conclusions of the RS National Assembly, adopted on 14 May this year, had to stop», Inzko said.

High Representative and EU Special Representative Valentin Inzko thanked the Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Franco Frattini for continued participation of Italy in EUFOR troops.