BOSNIA'S ADMISSION TO COUNCIL OF EUROPE ISN'T ACCOMPLISHED FACT

SARAJEVO, Jan 24 (Hina) - The Office of the High Representative for Bosnia-Herzegovina (OHR) warned on Thursday the process of admission of Bosnia-Herzegovina into the Council of Europe was not completed yet and that it might depend on the implementation of constitutional changes. OHR spokesman Kevin Sullivan said implementing the Bosnian Constitutional Court's decision on all three peoples being constituent throughout the country was the key test of the political maturity of the country's two entities. Discussions on how to implement the constitutional changes have not brought the views of the interested parties any closer yet. Bosniak and Croat politicians insist on the establishment of a House of Peoples in Republika Srpska, while Bosnian Serb representatives resolutely dismiss that possibility. In a separate statement to Sarajevo's Dnevni Avaz daily, Petritsch's spokeswoman Alexandra Stiglmayer said the issue would have to be solved very soon because the constitutional changes had to be implemented by the end of March. She did not exclude the possibility that the High Representative could eventually impose solutions if the interested parties failed to reach an agreement. However, she stressed the adoption of those decisions would be tough and it would require consultations with the steering committee of the Peace Implementation Council in the country. (hina) sb rml