OHR Press Releases

The High Representative, Wolfgang Petritsch, met today with a delegation from United World Colleges (UWC), the UK-based organization that runs schools throughout the world. UWC is proposing to open an international and residential college in Sarajevo. The school will be a fully accredited member of the UWC movement.

The High Representative Wolfgang Petritsch, COMSFOR, General John B. Sylvester and UNHCR Chief of Mission Werner Blatter have invited ambassadors of countries assisting with the return process to visit by helicopter key areas of return across the country on Tuesday, 30 April 2002. The tour had to be postponed due to bad weather.

On the occasion of Bosnia and Herzegovina’s accession to the Council of Europe, the High Representative, Wolfgang Petritsch, expresses his satisfaction with this achievement by the BiH authorities and his confidence that BiH will now integrate more and more with European organisations and structures.

The High Representative Wolfgang Petritsch, OSCE Ambassador to BiH Robert Beecroft, UNHCR Chief of Mission to BiH Werner Blatter, Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General Jacques—Paul Klein and Executive Officer of the Commission for Real Property Claims of Displaced Persons and Refugees Steven Segal join in condemning the political [...]

In partnership with Bosnia and Herzegovina's political leadership and the governments of the two Entities, the High Representative, Wolfgang Petritsch, has today completed the long process of constitutional change in BiH's Entities by issuing three Decisions. By closing a small number of gaps in the constitutional amendments, the High Representativ [...]

The Communications Regulatory Agency, the Banking Regulatory Agency and other independent market regulators are an integral and indispensable part of the transformation of the BiH economy, Deputy High Representative and Head of the OHR Economics Department Patrice Dreiski told a conference in Sarajevo today.

The High Representative, Wolfgang Petritsch, on Thursday issued a Decision amending the BiH Election Law.
Under this Decision, the High Representative has reduced the statutory time period for notification to be sent by the BiH Election Commission to all competent authorities, from 170 days to 169 days prior to the holding of an election.

The High Representative, Wolfgang Petritsch, reiterates today that the deadline for the implementation of the Constitutional Court Decision on the constituent peoples in both Entities in accordance with the letter and spirit of the Mrakovica-Sarajevo Agreement of 27 March 2002 will expire tonight.

The High Representative, Wolfgang Petritsch, in a letter sent today to RS Vice-President Dragen Cavic, replied to concerns raised by Mr Cavic regarding the constitutional amendments in the Federation and the status of the constituent peoples in the Cantons of the Federation. The High Representative agreed that the letter and spirit of the Mrakovica [...]