The Steering Board of the Peace Implementation Council (PIC) met in Sarajevo on July 6-7, 2011. They released a communique following the meeting, which detailed the Board’s conclusions.
Much of the communique details what the PIC sees as negative consequences of the failure of BiH officials to form a state-level government. In the words of the Steering Board,
The absence of a new state-level government is profoundly damaging to the interests of the country and its people. It is preventing Bosnia and Herzegovina from fulfilling important international obligations, including the final achievement of the 5+2 Agenda. It is stalling BiH’s European integration progress. It sends a negative message to potential foreign investors. It jeopardises BiH’s access to substantial external funding. It is leading to widespread public disenchantment with the political process.
The communique also contained a vaguely worded condemnation of “unhelpful statements by some public officials that question BiH’s territorial integrity and that threatened unilateral changes to the constitutional structure of the country,” and a warning that “the International Community retains the necessary instruments to counter destructive tendencies and that it will not allow attempts to undermine the Dayton Peace Agreement.”
The next meeting of the Steering Board will be held on November 30-December 1, 2011.
Read the full text of the communique here.
