SARAJEVO, Bosnia (October 15,2008) - The Bosnian President Haris Silajdžić met yesterday with Bjorn Lyrvall, Director-General for Political Affairs of the Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
The Bosnian President Silajdžić expressed his gratitude to Sweden as the EU member country for the support it was giving Bosnia on its path to the EU integration.
President Silajdžić has repeated that Bosnia would like to implement reforms and join the European Union, and that he believed that Bosnia was not lagging behind, even with all its current drawbacks, in comparison with other countries of the region which also aim at joining EU.
Director-General for Political Affairs of the Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs Bjorn Lyrvall said that the EU should involve in the political situation in B-H more intensively, and that Bosnia would be one of the the priorities of Swedish presidency over the European Union in the second half of the following year, in order to fulfil the conditions to gain the candidacy status by 2010 and become full member of the European Union.
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Wednesday, October 15, 2008
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