As soon as Bosnian politicians reach agreement on police reform, the European Commission will consider opening talks on a stabilization and association agreement with Bosnia, a European Union official told the dpa in Sarajevo late Thursday. Head of the E.U. Commission Directorate for Western Balkans Reinhardt Priebe said the E.U. would insist on police reform in Bosnia, with the aim of putting the ethnically-divided police forces in the country under single state-level command. Earlier this week Bosnian Serb officials withdrew from Bosnian political parties' negotiations, where final details about the new, state-level police should have been reached. Bosnian Serb negotiators refused to support the new police structure that would create police regions ignoring administrative border between Bosnia's two ethnic entities - the Moslem-Croat Federation and the Srpska Republic. --More 2334 Local Time 2034 GMT
