​The Chair of the CoR's Working Group on the Western Balkans, Mr Nikola Dobroslavić welcomes the end of the Mostar conflict which will lead to the first local elections in Mostar since 2008. The agreement reached between the party leaders to divide political power in the city of Bosnia-Herzegovina is a historic one. Over the past years, the European Committee of the Regions highlighted the issue in its Opinions and held intensive discussions with local representatives in Mostar to resolve the conflict, in co-operation with the Council of Europe's Congress of Local and Regional Authorities. We are satisfied to have contributed to this important process.