For many Bosnians, it seems natural for a high representative to give orders to their leaders.
An existing post of high representative, or foreign-policy chief, will be greatly beefed up.
Italian centre-right MEP Licia Ronzulli accused EU officials, including High Representative Baroness Ashton, of ignoring their plight.
Mr Wammen was addressing the plenary on behalf of Baroness Ashton, the EU's High Representative for Foreign Affairs.
He also met with Catherine Ashton, High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy.
Some westerners are uncomfortable over the vice-regal role the high representative has played.
In Bosnia, the high representative has no formal authority over the patchwork of international agencies involved in the transition.
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Much will turn on the character and skills of the new high representative.
The debate followed a statement by EU High Representative Baroness Ashton, following the country's disputed parliamentary elections in December 2011.
The high representative, Christian Schwarz Schilling, now wants to hand over many of his powers to local politicians next year.
Lisbon is silent on the question of how the council president and high representative will avoid getting in each other's way.
He welcomed the fact that the EU's High Representative for Foreign Affairs has to be formally questioned and approved by MEPs.
The high representative was supposed only to promote compliance with the agreement, but originally did not have much authority to do so.
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The idea that the high representative for foreign affairs can forge her own foreign policy against the will of member states is unrealistic.
Croatian daily Novi List says that the new union "is already ridiculed and declared a 'Solania'", a reference to EU High Representative Javier Solana.
Sir Paddy has been selected as the European Union's candidate to replace Wolfgang Petritsch, who leaves the position as UN High Representative next May.
The European Union wants to shut the office of the high representative, a sort of governor-generalship, whose power has anyway more or less evaporated.
As for the new high representative, how he or she would have managed the bureaucracies of both the Council and the Commission is anyone's guess.
Robertson was speaking to reporters after meeting Wolfgang Petritsch, the international high representative in Bosnia, where plans to scale down NATO's presence has provoked unease.
The Office of the High Representative (OHR) is the chief civilian peace implementation agency in Bosnia and Herzegovina, set up by the Dayton peace accord of 1995.
The High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs, Catherine Ashton, also praised the deal, saying the security agreements will contribute to stabilizing the border area.
Baroness Catherine Ashton, the High Representative for Foreign Affairs, has made no policy of note and struggled with only indifferent success to establish her authority against other E.
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The treaty - formally passed at the end of 2009 - created the position of EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs to oversee the EU's foreign affairs responsibilities.
And German Green MEP Franziska Brantner hit out at EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs Baroness Ashton, accusing her of deploying "empty phrases" on human rights in Egypt.
It would also establish a new post of president of the European Council - the grouping of EU states' leaders - and a high representative for foreign affairs.
Mr Farage had been strongly critical of the appointment of Cathy Ashton as the EU's High Representative for foreign affairs, who he described as having "married well" and "risen without trace".
The talks have been personally presided over by Carl Bildt, the Swedish foreign minister, whose country holds the EU's rotating presidency and who served as the first high representative in Bosnia.
The current High Representative, Christian Schwarz-Schilling, was hoping that the possibility of taking on responsibility for running Bosnia would encourage the politicians to agree on reforms, but the opposite has happened.
Video messages from UN Secretary General Ban Ki moon, U.S Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and European Union High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Catherine Ashton will be broadcast.
Many Serbs think that Paddy Ashdown, the international high representative for Bosnia, wants to strip their republic of all its real powers before his mandate expires at the end of the year.
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