Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent assessment he has made of the political situation in Bosnia-Herzegovina.

The Government closely monitors the political situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) and continues to engage actively to encourage much-needed progress and reform, through political, diplomatic and programme support (worth approximately £7.6m in FY 2017-18). As part of that engagement, the Foreign Secretary visited BiH in April 2017. Some progress has been made, but much political discussion remains divisive and nationalist, and serious challenges to the rule of law have contributed to concerns over political stability.