Nezavisne novine: BANJALUKA – Terry Davis, Secretary General of the Council of Europe, in a conversation with Zoran Lipovac, minister of administration and local self governance of the RS, in Strasbourg commended the visible progress the RS achieved in fulfilling the European standards.

“Lipovac and Perica Rajčević, MP in the National Assembly of the RS, talked with Jean-Luc Lorain from the Secretariat of the Council of Europe and Philip Blair, director of the Department for Legal Affairs, on constitutional reform in BiH and fiscal decentralization in the RS”, was the release from the Ministry of Administration and Local self Governance of the RS.

Lipovac stated that the standpoint of the RS is that constitutional reform in BiH should be implemented gradually and first questions on which there is a consensus should be solved.

Jean-Luc Lorain supported the effort of the RS to go into the constitutional reform gradually, adding that only that way in recent time solutions could be found, and that opening of all the open questions would block the process of negotiation.