Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what recent information they have about the official registration of state properties in Bosnia-Herzegovina, as a pre-requisite of progress towards NATO membership.

​In 2010, NATO Foreign Ministers invited Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) to join the Membership Action Plan, but authorised its activation only when all immovable defence properties identified as necessary for future defence purposes had been officially registered as the state property of BiH, for use by the BiH Ministry of Defence. In 2016, the Presidency of BiH adopted a new Defence Review which determined that 57 properties are needed for use by the BiH Armed Forces. Some of these properties have been registered successfully. Work continues to overcome technical challenges in the Federation of BiH entity, and political obstacles in the Republika Srpska entity, in order to complete the registration process.