(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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