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EU welcomes end of Bosnia political crisis

29 December 2011, 19:00 CET
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(BRUSSELS) - The European Union on Thursday welcomed the end of a marathon political deadlock in Bosnia and called for more steps to put the country back on a path towards the 27-nation EU.

EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton and EU enlargement commissioner Stefan Fuele, in a joint statement, said they were "encouraged by this development and look forward to further concrete steps to put Bosnia-Hercegovina firmly back on track towards the EU. "

Bosnia's main Muslim, Croat and Serb parties agreed Wednesday to form a central government, ending a 14-month political crisis that paralysed the state and blocked further EU integration.

Since the 1992-95 inter-ethnic war that left almost 100,000 people dead, Bosnia has been divided into the Bosnian Serb-controlled Republika Srpska and the Muslim-Croat Federation overseen by a weak central government.

The still deeply divided country had been in crisis since elections in October 2010, with the rival Serb, Muslim and Croat leaders unable to form a central government.

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