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Sat 10 Oct 2009Pressure mounts on divided Bosnia to agree key reforms
EUROPEAN AND US officials threw down the gauntlet to the leaders of ethnically divided Bosnia yesterday, telling them to agree on crucial reforms or risk jeopardising future EU and Nato accession.
Bosnia has fallen behind its ex-Yugoslav neighbours in the push for greater integration with the West, due to chronic disagreement between the nationalist parties that run its constituent parts, a Muslim-Croat Federation and a Serb-run region called Republika Srpska.
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