The international community's High Representative to Bosnia and Herzegovina, Valentin Inzko, met with Serbian President Boris Tadic during a visit to Belgrade on Tuesday, assessing the situation in the region as being the best in the last 20 years and stressing the importance of reconciliation between the countries in the region and their mutual cooperation.
Inzko was quoted by electronic media in Belgrade as saying that the future of Bosnia and Herzegovina would depend on relations in its neighbourhood and that the future of all the countries in the region lay within the European Union.
Speaking of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Inzko said that no one was challenging its sovereignty or the Dayton peace accords, adding that the Bosnian Serb entity, Republika Srpska, enjoyed strong autonomy within Bosnia and Herzegovina. He said that President Tadic was certainly one of the statesmen who supported the sovereignty and integrity of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
According to a statement issued by the Serbian President's press service, Tadic told Inzko that he was pushing for a new phase in the development of good neighbourly relations between Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Tadic said that Serbia supported the territorial integrity of Bosnia and Herzegovina and its internal organisation in accordance with the Dayton agreement. He stressed that constitutional changes in Bosnia and Herzegovina were possible only through an agreement between democratically elected representatives of the country's three constituent peoples -- the Serbs, Croats and Bosniaks.
