In a statement issued on Tuesday and signed by the Commission Chairman, the Auxiliary Bishop of Sarajevo, Pero Sudar, the Commission said that the 1995 Dayton peace agreement, which ended the war in Bosnia-Herzegovina, spelled "unjust and unsuccessful division" of the country.
The statement, carried by the Bosnian Catholic press agency KTA, said that it would not be possible to ensure human rights protection and the equal position of Bosnia-Herzegovina's three constituent ethnic groups -- the Bosniaks (Muslims), the Serbs and the Croats -- as long as the country remained divided into two entities.
The Commission said that it shared the general concern for the future of the people of Bosnia-Herzegovina and was closely following news from the United States where "the injustice arising from the Dayton agreement is now being officially approved."
"Our painful experience guarantees to us that without removing the restraints of institutionalised injustice imposed in Dayton we will never be able to so much as reach the doorstep of the European Union," the Commission said.