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Article: U.S. pressures Balkan state to 'modernize'; Dayton pact ended war, but impedes future.(WORLD)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- November 22, 2005
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Byline: Nicholas Kralev, THE WASHINGTON TIMES
The United States yesterday predicted a bleak future for Bosnia-Herzegovina if it does not change its constitution to "modernize" the decade-old Dayton Accords that ended the war in the former Yugoslav republic.
R. Nicholas Burns, undersecretary of state for political affairs, called on Bosnia "to create a single presidency from the three men who hold the office now, a strong prime minister and a more effective parliament."
Failure to do so "will mean there is no horizon for the country, that there is no chance for them to join the European Union," Mr. Burns said at a U.S. Institute of Peace event ...