02/03/2010 President
PACE President Mevlüt Çavusoglu has urged Bosnia and Herzegovina to make swift constitutional changes ending discrimination in elections to the Presidency and House of Peoples, in line with the recent judgment of the European Court of Human Rights in the case of Sejdic and Finci v. BiH.
Addressing both chambers of the country's Parliamentary Assembly during a three-day official visit, Mr Çavusoglu warned that, if this change was not made before the forthcoming parliamentary elections in October, the institutions which resulted from the elections could have a problem of legitimacy. “This will not help anybody,” he pointed out.