Ashdown told a news conference in the southern town of Siroki Brijeg on Tuesday that some changes to the Dayton peace accords had already been at work with the agreement on promoting the entity armies, namely the armies of the Croat-Muslim federation and the Serb republic, to the state level, and with the introduction of a single rate of Value Added Tax in the entire country.
The Briton said that this was done with the consent of all the three peoples (Bosnian Muslims, Croats and Serbs).
He also envisioned a gradual government decentralisation to the benefit of municipal authorities in the future.
In a new Bosnia-Herzegovina undergoing its reorganisation, municipalities will assume an increasingly important role, the High Representative said. He did not comment, however, on the destiny of the existing two entities in the country and ten cantons in the Federation.
Bosnian Parliament chairman Martin Raguz has recently announced that a motion for a debate on amending the so-called Dayton Constitution would be put on the agenda after local elections, scheduled for 2 October.