US Ambassador to Bosnia Douglas McElhaney, who participated in the negotiations as mediator, said he was satisfied with the atmosphere in which the negotiations were proceeding, but added that more discussion was necessary about concrete solutions.
Before the latest round, representatives of eight ruling and opposition parties invited to take part in the negotiations reiterated their familiar positions, confirming there was still no agreement about the reorganisation of the state presidency and parliament.
Two models were proposed in December -- the election of a state president with a four-year term or the election of one president and two vice presidents who would rotate every 16 months.
The leader of Bosnia's Croatian Democratic Union, Dragan Covic, said today he would insist on discussing the organisation of the middle level of authority because the majority of the Bosnian Croat people viewed the country as unfair.