A new meeting aimed at finding a solution to the political impasse in Bosnia will be held on November 18 in the presence of EU and US officials, French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner said Tuesday.

- At the meeting that will take place on November 18 the representatives of the EU and US will try again to convince the various partners - in Bosnia, he told Serbian Vecernje Novosti daily in an interview.

This means above all winning over the prime minister of the Bosnian Serb entity Republika Srpska, Milorad Dodik, and Haris Silajdzic, the Muslim member of Bosnia's tripartite presidency, Kouchner said, providing no further details.

The meeting is expected to take place in the Bosnian capital Sarajevo.

According to Bosnian media, the European and US experts were due to meet various parties in the Bosnian capital this week that took part in two previous meetings last month.

The political leaders of the three Bosnian communities -- Croats, Muslims and Serbs -- have so far failed to reach an accord on a package of constitutional reforms proposed by Brussels and Washington.

The reforms which have been unacceptable for them for various reasons, are aimed at making the country's central institutions more functional and ending a political impasse that hinders Bosnia's rapprochement with the EU.