11/14/2001

Seats to fill in the Brcko District Interim Assembly

Following the Assembly’s unanimous decision of 7 November and in response to the Assembly’s concern that the Serb population of the District is not fully represented, the Supervisor of Brcko Henry L. Clarke will again be considering applications from political parties and independent candidates for filling Assembly seats that remain vac [...]
11/13/2001

HR lobbies for continued support for Bosnia and Herzegovina

The High Representative, Wolfgang Petritsch, is currently visiting New York and Washington to lobby for continued support for the peace process in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Yesterday, during the UN General Assembly's annual meeting at the level of foreign ministers, he had meetings
11/13/2001

Buyers of privatized apartments in the Federation of BiH should be careful

As PLIP stated in its 23 October 2001 Press Release, there is reason to believe that there may be thousands of cases of illegal revalidation. Many of these may have already led to illegal privatisation. Where unclaimed apartments are illegally privatised, they are made unavailable for use as alternative accommodation
11/08/2001

High Representative develops strategy for ‘Rules of the Road’ Court proceedings

The High Representative, Wolfgang Petritsch, today issued a Decision mandating Judges in BiH to exercise judicial discretion when deciding on the detention of individuals charged with serious offences, during criminal proceedings, so bringing the Federation of BiH (FBiH) and Republika Srpska (RS) Criminal Procedure Codes into line with European hum [...]
11/06/2001

IJC Director Meets With RS Leadership

Today, the Director of the Independent Judicial Commission (IJC) for BiH, Judge Rakel Surlien, visited Banja Luka together with the Chief of the Monitoring and Implementation Department, Judge Kari Kiesilainen and the Deputy Chief, Timothy Hughes.
11/06/2001

PLIP Agencies release September Statistics

The Agencies involved in the Property Law Implementation Plan (OHR, OSCE, UNHCR, UNMIBH and CRPC) announce today that, as of the end of September, the overall implementation rate of the property laws rose to 34% in BiH. 43% of cases have been solved in the Federation, while that number stands at 24% in the Republika Srpska, and 30% in Brcko
11/01/2001

Yesterday’s OHR Brcko Press Conference

Because the discussion held at yesterday’s regular OHR North press conference in Brcko was incorrectly reported in the press today, we are hereby providing you with the exact transcript of the questions and answers on the subject of the Brcko District Prosecutor’s request to the Brcko District Assembly for lifting several councilorsR [...]
10/31/2001

Anti-Fraud Department reports on efforts to tackle corruption in BiH

The OHR’s Anti-Fraud Department (AFD) has compiled a report on its expanding effort to tackle corruption in Bosnia and Herzegovina during the past year. The AFD became a full-fledged department inside the OHR in August 2000, and opened offices in Mostar in August 2000 and in Banja Luka in January 2001