LAJCAK: SERBIA IS NO LONGER INTERFERING IN BOSNIA'S INTERNAL AFFAIRS

BELGRADE, Serbia (December 15,2007) - In an interview with the Serbian radio station "B92", the International Community's High Representative in Bosnia Miroslav Lajčak said Serbia is no longer interfering in Bosnia’s internal affairs.

Lajcak had previously spoken of this and other matters with Serbia's President Boris Tadić in Belgrade.

After the meeting, Lajčak told B92 that he had informed Tadić of the political situation in Bosnia and had expressed his pleasure at Bosnian leaders’ devotion to European integration.

Asked whether he expected the outcome of the Kosovo crisis to have ramifications for Bosnia, he said he did not, stressing that the country had its own “challenges and problems,“ and that it was not a “hostage to Kosovo.“

“There is not a single reason for Bosnia to be tied in with Kosovo, though I cannot ignore the fact that Kosovo is a part of the region and that it will create a climate in the region. In that sense, everything is linked, but not directly. It’s all in the hands of Bosnia’s politicians,“ Lajčak said.