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Bosnia's bid to form a new govt fails over divisions on NATO

Still deadlock ten months after elections

20 August, 15:10
(ANSA-AP) - SARAJEVO, AUGUST 20 - The three members of Bosnia's multi-ethnic presidency have failed to break a deadlock on forming a new government more than ten months after the general election. A meeting Tuesday between Bosnia's Muslim, Serb and Croat leaders ended without an agreement on forming the new cabinet because the Bosnian Serb member of the presidency, Milorad Dodik, was against a package that would also include adopting a plan that would move Bosnia closer to NATO membership. An agreement between the three is crucial because the lack of a government has stalled economic development in the Balkan nation that is still recovering from a devastating 1992-95 war. Disagreements between Bosnia's pro-Russian Serbs and the other two groups over Bosnia's future relations with NATO could plunge the country deeper into crisis. (ANSA-AP).

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