The international community's High Representative in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Valentin Inzko, told AFP on Wednesday that the crisis-stricken country should get "back on track" to join the EU, as 85 percent of Bosnian citizens want that.
The Austrian diplomat said this would be one of the main topics of an EU-Balkans summit, to be held in Sarajevo on 2 June.
The summit will gather EU representatives and officials from all Western Balkan EU hopefuls. Bosnia wants to join the EU but the current political crisis has blocked vital reforms demanded by Brussels.
"In the last four years overall the country has found itself in a political impasse. The political climate has deteriorated and political leaders now have their eyes set on general elections to be held in October," said Inzko, adding that he regretted that "negative rhetoric is also on the rise."
"Suggestions that (a) dissolution of the country is possible (by Bosnian Serbs) have led to strong reactions from other political quarters" AFP cited Inzko as saying.
Since the end of its 1992-1995 war Bosnia has been split into two entities, the Muslim-Croat Federation and the Serbs' Republika Srpska. The two are linked by weak central institutions while each has its own government.
