We hope that the new governments in Bosnia and Herzegovina will be quicker in doing their job, Inzko told a news conference in Sarajevo on Wednesday, after a two-day meeting of the Peace Implementation Council (PIC) Steering Board in the Bosnian capital.
The Steering Board of this international body charged with overseeing the peace process in Bosnia and Herzegovina discussed the current state of affairs in the country.
According to Inzko, the Steering Board was impressed with their meeting with Bosnian Presidency members because they offered a new atmosphere and rhetoric.
We now maybe really have a new face of Bosnia and Herzegovina, at least in relations with the international community, the Austrian diplomat said.
The PIC Steering Board concluded that Bosnia had lost much in the last four years that were marked by political conflicts and standstill in the implementation of reforms and that the new authorities could not afford any waste of time.
The Board insists on the implementation of reforms, the settlement of issues surrounding state property, and on the adoption of a law on the population census.
The prerequisite for that is the establishment of the new government, based on a coalition agreement that will clearly define the need for reforms that would speed up the country's integration with the European Union and NATO.
Inzko said that after Croatia's accession to the EU, the European bloc would come to Bosnia's border, adding that other countries in the neighbourhood were making fast progress on the road to the EU.
He said that during the meeting the Steering Board did not discuss plans for closing the OHR, as it was clear that reform goals had not been accomplished yet.
The conditions are known and the international community will not change them, he added.
He said that some PIC member-states wanted to see the OHR closed as soon as possible, but all PIC members believed that this should happen once Bosnia became able to make and implement decisions on its own.