“Need agreement for the Serb minority in Kosovo and the Croatian minority in Bosnia”, says Gabriel Escobar

The political position of Croats in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and that of Serbs in the northern part of Kosovo, Escobar treated him in an articulation.

“We need to have an agreement that makes minorities feel represented, integrated and valued”, the American emissary for the Western Balkans said.

Three parties in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Escobar said, “failed to carry out the [election Law] reform process”.

That is referring to the issue of the election process for resolving the question of voting for the Croat member of the Bosnia Presidency.

Such a Bosnian bloc of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina has sharply rejected it as “creating the election apartheid”.

International High Representative Christian Schmidt has warned that he will use the Bonn Powers [the exclusive powers stemming from the Dayton Accord] to pass this right to Croats, as Serbs have in the Serbian entity, to the Serbian “Republika Srpska” respectively.

Schmidt has US, British and European support, but not even Russian and Chinese, who have rejected his mandate at the UN Security Council, refusing even the reports.

Gabriel Escobar found that the <x0 most problems in the region in recent years are related to the treatment and status of minorities in the region, whether Croats in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbs in the northern part of Kosovo”, the Croatian news agency “broadcast HRT”

People are not leaving the country because they refused to live in multiethnic society, the American top diplomat praised.

However, because of corruption”, he said, referring to BiH.

On the other hand, the European emissary in charge of Kosovo-Serbia dialogue issues Miroslav Lajcak spoke with optimistic prospects about EU enlargement with the region.

The Russian aggression over Ukraine, Lajcak said, showed that enlargement is not technical issue, but political.

But, he said, the Western Balkans should use the moment to make reforms. If we use it, don't blame the EU”.

Bosnia and Herzegovina has faced major political internal clashes over the controversial electoral law -- for which Croatia has mostly been vocal -- for their political representation.

The US, Britain and the EU have supported Schmidt in acting according to exclusive powers to impose a solution, unless it is achieved by domestic political forces.

On the other hand, the Association of Serb majority municipalities has recently been asked of the state of Kosovo by the US.