The Chairperson of the Council of Ministers of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Borjana Krišto, spoke today in Sarajevo with the Deputy Director General of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and the Director for the countries of Western Europe, the Western Balkans, Turkey and Great Britain, Marko Makovec, about the European path of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Kristo thanked the EEAS for its wholehearted assistance to the institutions of Bosnia and Herzegovina in the integration process, as well as its support and understanding of the situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina. She said that the candidacy status encouraged all political actors in Bosnia and Herzegovina to work together in favor of the Europeanization and transformation of our society.
She pointed out that the priorities and focus of the work of the institutions of Bosnia and Herzegovina will be aimed at fulfilling 14 key priorities from the EC Opinion. She added that compromise and consensus are key to the further progress of the integration process, as well as to ensure the long-term stability of BiH in the process of limited changes to the Constitution of BiH and a thorough reform of the electoral legislation.
Krišto emphasized that the Council of Ministers of Bosnia and Herzegovina is working seriously and dynamically to speed up the reform processes and, in addition to the adopted budget for 2023, the Program of Economic Reforms of Bosnia and Herzegovina for the period 2023 – 2025 and the Agreement on financing the Annual Action Plan in support of the Package for energy support for the Western Balkans in favor of BiH for 2023, and the key priorities are the Law on Amendments to the Law on the Supreme Court and the Strategy for the Fight against Organized Crime 2023 – 2026.
She underlined the commitment of the BiH Council of Ministers to cooperation with the EU, and to regional and European initiatives based on good neighborliness, strengthening dialogue, peace and stability. She emphasized the unquestionability of harmonizing the foreign policy of Bosnia and Herzegovina with the common foreign and security policy of the EU.
The meeting was also attended by the head of the EU Delegation in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the EU’s special representative in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Johann Sattler, the Council of Ministers of Bosnia and Herzegovina announced.
