For Bosnia and Herzegovina to carry out key reforms and make progress towards European integration, its state institutions must function well and the country must develop agencies that have been established in the context of delivering EU-related reforms, reads a statement signed by ambassadors from countries in charge of implementing the peace agreement for Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The ambassadors called on members of Bosnia's Fiscal Council, which is made up of the country's prime minister and finance minister and of the two entities' prime ministers and finance ministers, to make a decision on securing budgetary funds for efficient state institutions.
Bosnian Finance Minister Dragan Vrankic recently warned that representatives of the Serb entity, Republika Srpska, did not agree that budgetary funds for state institutions in 2011 be the same as in 2010.
The Serb entity government is against setting aside in the national budget an additional 20 million marks for state institutions due to the impact of the economic crisis.