Today is the start of the official campaign for the municipal elections.
You will find available here a copy of the text of a statement that I have made on a video which will be telecast to Bosnia, and in that statement, I have tried to convey a message to the ordinary people across the country that the OSCE is working hard to ensure an electoral process that will be particularly attentive to their concerns, because eight weeks from now we will be holding those elections. We have had considerable success administratively in our registration of the political parties and candidates and the creation of the voters register. Administratively, we have a solid basis for proceeding with these elections. Politically, the situation is complicated by political crisis in Republika Srpska and other recent events. The military struggle tended to center on the localities, the municipalities, and since the end of the war, the political struggle has centered there.