Ownership governs all our work here. Bosnian must now stand on their own two feet as aid money to the country is running out fast. To that end, market economic reform here is the international community s number one priority. At the general election last November, opinion polls demonstrated that the economy jobs, pensions, investment topped the list of Bosnian voters concerns. We have witnessed a record level of refugee returns in the last year in both Bosnian entities not nearly as many as we want but organizations such as Human Rights Watch, usually sparing with praise, admit that the refugee logjam is broken.
International engagement works.
It was the dream of integration with Europe and the desperate with for an end to years of isolation that were the main forces behind the downfall of Slobodan Milosevic in neighboring Yugoslavia not a bankrupt nationalism out of touch with the Europe of the 21st century. That is why we have a clear strategy to address the fundamentals the return of refugees to their homes, deep-rooted market economic reform and state institutions that work for their citizens.