Sarajevo - Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik has said Bosnia will not change its constitution for membership of the European Union, according to reports Monday. "If it turns out that changing the constitution is a condition for the membership in the EU, that means that the Europeans do not want Bosnia in the EU," Dodik was quoted as saying in the daily Press RS.

"The United States or whoever can try and interfere with the whole matter, but there will be no solution in accordance with their wishes, regardless of the pressures," he added.

Bosnia, after the 1992-95 war, consists of two largely independent entities - the Serb Republic and the Muslim Croat Federation of Bosnia-Herzegovina.

In the interview, Dodik accused Muslims of trying to change the constitution by giving more power to the central authorities.

He warned that all plans to transfer the authorities of the Serbian entity in Bosnia to the central government would fail.

He also said that Croats wanted a new entity in Bosnia but that the Serbs "have nothing against it just as long as they don't pry in the Serb Republic."

The Serbs make up a third of the total population and dominate the one half of Bosnia. Muslims make up half of the population and share the other half of Bosnia with Croats who make up 15 per cent of the population. (dpa)