Clinton in Balkans, with Bosnia and Kosovo issues on agenda Oct 12, 2010, 7:28 GMT
Sarajevo - US Secretary of State <http://www.monstersandcritics.com/news/europe/news/article_1590742.php/Clinton-in-Balkans-with-Bosnia-and-Kosovo-issues-on-agenda> Hillary Rodham Clinton was due Tuesday to meet the three co-Presidents of Bosnia, as part of her tour of the Balkans. Clinton arrived in the region late Monday for a tour of Bosnia, Serbia and Kosovo, during which she is expected to call local leaders to resolve stalled problems that are blocking the region's closer ties with the West. Clinton meets the collective Bosnian Presidency Tuesday morning in Sarajevo. The three co-presidents represent main ethnic communities in Bosnia - Muslims, Serbs and Croats. Bosnia has stalled on its path to join the European Union and NATO because of the inability of feuding leaders to reform the inefficient, complicated administration, which gives the ethnic communities broad autonomy at the expense of central state institutions. Bosnian politicians last year rejected a constitutional reform proposed by the US and EU. Clinton, who arrives just a week after general polls in Bosnia, may revive the question of the reform plan. She is however not scheduled to meet the most powerful ethnic leaders, most of all Serb Milorad Dodik, who has been threatening the secession of the Serb part of Bosnia. Later Tuesday Clinton is due to attend the opening o the new US embassy in Sarajevo. Clinton then is set to fly to Belgrade, for meetings with President Boris Tadic and other top officials. On the agenda is the strained relationship between Serbia and its former province of Kosovo, which declared independence unilaterally, and is recognised by the US and most of the EU, but not Russia and some European states. Description: http://www.monstersandcritics.com/global/img/copyright_notice.gif
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