The European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton has submitted an unusually sharply-worded quarterly report on Bosnia to the United Nation.

Ashton said in the report that the situation in Bosnia continues to deteriorate and that the country is failing to implement key reforms.

Ashton warned of a breakdown in communication between Bosnia’s bickering ethnic leaders.

She specifically targeted Bosnia’s Serb dominated entity Republika Srpska, accusing it of violating the Dayton Peace Agreement by refusing to accept the authority of the international community’s High Representative to Bosnia.