Commenting on discussions on Bosnia and Herzegovina after the meeting of EU Member States’ Foreign Ministers, HR/VP Federica Mogherini said:

“We had then a long and good discussion on the Balkans and on Bosnia and Herzegovina starting from the initiative that some of the Member States were proposing and suggesting in the last months – the last of which was a German/UK initiative but Croatia, Slovenia were suggesting similar things in the last months – trying to take advantage of the fact that just today the State Presidency was inaugurated, we have a new Commission here, so without touching any of the basic principles of our negotiations still we believe that there might be a chance of opening a process on new basis, without touching the conditionality obviously and without lowering the bar in any case. There was in this sense an agreement by the Member States that we should proceed in the coming days on that direction to Sarajevo.”

To see the full transcript of the HR/VP’s press conference go to:

http://www.eeas.europa.eu/statements-eeas/2014/141117_03_en.htm