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'''Bosnia and Herzegovina–Romania relations''' are [[bilateral relations]] between [[Romania]] and [[Bosnia and Herzegovina]]. Both countries are full members of the [[Southeast European Cooperation Process]], [[Southeast European Cooperative Initiative]], [[Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe]], and [[Stability Pact for South Eastern Europe]]. Bosnia and Herzegovina has an embassy in [[Bucharest]]. Romania has an embassy in [[Sarajevo]].

==History==
[[File:Romanian Embassy, Sarajevo 3.jpg|thumb|right|Embassy of Romania in Sarajevo]]
Romania recognized Bosnia and Herzegovina's independence on 1 March 1996, both countries established diplomatic relations on the same day. Relations were described as "excellent" by the foreign ministers in 2006, ahead of the opening of the Bosnian embassy in Bucharest.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.csees.net/index.php?page=news&news_id=52111&country_id=6|title=Bosnia-Romania relations "excellent" - foreign ministers|date=7 May 2006|work=Onasa news agency|accessdate=2009-05-07|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110719030740/http://www.csees.net/index.php?page=news&news_id=52111&country_id=6|archivedate=19 July 2011}}</ref>

They entered into a [[free trade agreement]] in April 2003,<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-22929308_ITM|title=Bosnia, Romania sign free trade accord|date=8 April 2003|work=Asia Africa Intelligence Wire|accessdate=2009-05-07}}</ref> which Romania withdrew from following its entry into the [[European Union]] in 2007.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://romaniandaily.ro/general/art4588264878/|title=Winkler: Romania to withdraw from free trade agreements|last=Bulandra|first=Iulian|date=8 May 2006|work=Bucharest Daily News|accessdate=2009-05-07|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110727045955/http://romaniandaily.ro/general/art4588264878/|archivedate=27 July 2011}}</ref> President [[Traian Băsescu]] of Romania made an official visit to Bosnia and Herzegovina in March 2008.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=NewsLibrary&p_multi=BBAB&d_place=BBAB&p_theme=newslibrary2&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=11F8E63295118E00&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM|title=Romanian president starts official visit to Bosnia|date=20 March 2008|work=Rompres|accessdate=2009-05-07}}</ref> Romania has argued against any rapid withdrawal of troops from Bosnia,<ref>{{cite news|url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=NewsLibrary&p_multi=BBAB&d_place=BBAB&p_theme=newslibrary2&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=117B56E139A57DF8&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM|title=Romania opposes sudden drop in international military presence in Bosnia|last=Mac|first=Cristina|date=6 March 2007 |work=Rompres|accessdate=2009-05-07}}</ref> and supports Bosnian entry into the EU.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.rferl.org/content/article/1063770.html|title=Bosnia's EU Bid Gets Romanian Support |date=12 December 2005|work=[[Radio Free Europe]]|accessdate=2009-05-07}}</ref>

==Military cooperation==
Romania contributed 200 soldiers to a non-combat Engineering Battalion of [[IFOR]]/[[SFOR]] in the wake of the Bosnian conflict in the mid-90s,<ref>{{cite journal|last=Simon |first=Jeffrey |date=July 1997 |title=The IFOR/SFOR Experience: Lessons Learned by PFP Partners |journal=Strategic Forum |publisher=Institute for National Strategic Studies and the National Defense University faculty |issue=120 |url=http://www.ndu.edu/inss/strforum/SF120/forum120.html |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090114044807/http://www.ndu.edu/inss/strforum/SF120/forum120.html |archivedate=January 14, 2009 }}</ref> four helicopters to the EUFOR operation between 2005 and 2006, and 85 police to the EU mission between 2003 and 2006.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-01/07/content_4020690.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060110041014/http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-01/07/content_4020690.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=January 10, 2006|title=Romanian choppers back home from Bosnia-Herzegovina mission|date=7 January 2006|work=[[Xinhua Net]]|accessdate=2009-05-07}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-27033319_ITM|title=Romania to send 85 personnel to EU Bosnia police force|date=5 November 2002|work=Asia Africa Intelligence Wire|accessdate=2009-05-07}}</ref> The countries signed a military cooperation plan in 2006.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=NewsLibrary&p_multi=BBAB&d_place=BBAB&p_theme=newslibrary2&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=11060186E00B8978&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM|title=Bosnia, Romania sign military cooperation plan|date=14 March 2006|work=SRNA news agency, Bijeljina|accessdate=2009-05-07}}</ref>

==National minorities==
In [[Republika Srpska]], one of the two entities constituting Bosnia and Herzegovina together with the [[Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina]], [[Romanians]] are legally recognized as an ethnic minority.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.prometej.ba/clanak/drustvo-i-znanost/manjine-u-bih/zivot-u-sjeni-konstitutivnih-naroda-rumunji-u-bih-2376|title=Život u sjeni konstitutivnih naroda – Rumunji u BiH|first=Marijan|last=Oršolić|newspaper=Prometej|date=17 February 2016|language=bs}}</ref> In the village of [[Ostružnja Gornja]] exists the Ostružnja Association of Romanians, a cultural association for the small Romanian community of the village, composed of 53 families with around 350 members in total.<ref>[https://www.frontal.rs/doboj-osnovano-udruzenje-rumuna/ ДОБОЈ: ОСНОВАНО УДРУЖЕЊЕ РУМУНА]</ref>

== See also ==
* [[Accession of Bosnia and Herzegovina to the European Union]]
* [[Foreign relations of Bosnia and Herzegovina]]
* [[Foreign relations of Romania]]
* [[Romania–Yugoslavia relations]]

==References==
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== External links ==
* [http://www.mae.ro/index.php?unde=doc&id=6219&idlnk=4&cat=6 Romanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs: direction of the Romanian embassy in Sarajevo]
* [http://www.mae.ro/index.php?unde=doc&id=5857&idlnk=4&cat=6 Romanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs: direction of the Bosnian embassy in Bucharest]

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