The Bosnian leadership has not moved the troubled territory closer to integration with the European Union after failing to fulfil conditions, including cooperation with a tribunal for war crimes in the Balkans, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said Thursday, according to DPA. The three-party presidency of Bosnia-Herzegovina last year completed negotiations on a Stabilization and Association Agreement with the EU, but has not moved to sign it, Ban's report to the UN Security Council said. The presidency has had to fulfil four requirements: cooperation with the International Tribunal on the Former Yugoslavia, police re- structuring, public administration reform and public broadcasting reform. "There has been almost no progress in addressing the reform agenda, and Bosnia-Herzegovina has moved no closer to initialing a Stabilization and Association Agreement with the EU," the report said. "This is despite the fact that the overwhelming majority of citizens of Bosnia-Herzegovina wish to see progress with regard to the relationship with the EU," it said. The ethnic conflict in the former Yugoslav republic ended in 1995 with the Dayton Peace Agreement endorsed by the UN. The UN initially administered the territory and the responsibility has since shifted to the EU. The report said infighting among the presidency composed of Bosnian Muslims, Bosnian Serbs and Croats has resulted in a deterioration of the political atmosphere due "to negative rhetoric coming from both Serb and Bosniak parties." The most recent dispute was over a Bosnian demand that Srebrenica, the site of massacre in 1995, be given a special status outside Republika Srpska - the Bosnian Serb enclave. The report said the political atmosphere deteriorated after the Bosnian leaders failed to resolve the enclave issue.
