Bosnia parties to form government after 14 months

BOSNIA’S main Muslim, Croat and Serb parties agreed to form a central government yesterday, ending a 14-month political crisis that paralysed the state and blocked further EU integration.

“We have reached an agreement on the composition of the (central) government,” Sulejman Tihic, the leader of the SDA Muslim party, told a press conference.

He added that the political leaders also agreed on two pieces of legislation on holding a census and distribution of state aid, which Brussels insists on if Bosnia is to take further steps to joining the European Union.