SARAJEVO, Oct 29 (Hina) - The international community's High Representative in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Paddy Ashdown, warned ruling parties in the country on Wednesday that he would not tolerate their attempts to establish control over
the work of police.
SARAJEVO, Oct 29 (Hina) - The international community's High
Representative in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Paddy Ashdown, warned
ruling parties in the country on Wednesday that he would not
tolerate their attempts to establish control over the work of
police. #L#
Addressing a news conference in Sarajevo, Ashdown said that all
ruling parties, particularly the Party of Democratic Action (SDA),
had been doing everything possible in the last several months to
establish control over police forces.
There is clear and irrefutable evidence that some parties,
especially the SDA, cannot understand that the times when
politicians controlled the police are gone, Ashdown said,
recalling that in the past seven years the international community
had invested hundreds of millions of dollars in reforms aimed at
establishing a fully professional and independent police force.
He said that the actions of the ruling parties were undermining the
rule of law in the country and imposing what he described as the
communist type of behaviour.
The British diplomat said that he would see that those times did not
return and that there would not be much debate about that.
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