OHR Press Releases

The High Representative, Wolfgang Petritsch, in the course of a two-day working visit to New York, has presented his final report to the United Nations, addressed a Donors’ Conference on Srebrenica, and held talks with senior UN officials.

The Principal Deputy High Representative, Donald Hays, on Friday called on the responsible authorities in Bosnia and Herzegovina to take serious steps to eliminate obstacles to investment. “You have to take action now, you cannot wait while others - in Belgrade, Tirana and Zagreb, for example - carve out their own share of the market,” [...]

The High Representative, Wolfgang Petritsch, today addressed the 55-nation OSCE Permanent Council in Vienna. He briefed the Council on recent political developments in Bosnia and Herzegovina and gave an overview of the three years of his mandate, highlighting the major achievements and the overall progress sustained in the country.

The High Representative, Wolfgang Petritsch, today issued a Decision appointing Milos Babic, Suada Halilagic, Venceslav Ilic, Branko Morait, Muhidin Niksic, Nedzad Popovac and Martin Raguz as judges to the Appellate Division of the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina, thereby also establishing the Court. The seven judges were chosen from a list of 19 s [...]

The Principal Deputy High Representative, Don Hays, on Monday visited two successful postwar start-up companies which have become profitable and created jobs by identifying and exploiting niche markets.

The High Representative, Wolfgang Petritsch, together with the Chairman of the Council of Ministers, Dragan Mikerevic, on Friday convened the fifth Consultative Partnership Forum. A main focus of the meeting was Judicial Reform. The High Representative stressed the core function of the Rule of Law, supported by a professional, independent and relia [...]

The Agencies involved in the Property Law Implementation Plan (OHR, OSCE, UNHCR, UNMIBH and CRPC) announced today that, as of the end of March 2002, the overall implementation rate of the property laws in BiH has risen to 46%.

The Office of the High Representative welcomes yesterday evening’s signing of a contract by the BiH Ministry of Civil Affairs and Communications and Siemens, on the implementation of the Citizens’ Identity Protection System. The CIPS project represents a major breakthrough in administering residency registration and personal-identity do [...]

The High Representative, Wolfgang Petritsch, todayissued a Decision prioritising the return of residential properties to returnee police officers in both Entities. Housing bodies, which under the property laws are obliged to resolve claims on the repossession of private and socially owned properties in the chronological order in which they were rec [...]