Govori

I am delighted to have been asked to participate at this conference. I am an economist; the focus of the conference is security – and the point that I wish to make this morning is that you can’t have security if you don’t have economic stability. Economics and security are inextricably bound up.

Prošle sedmice smo moja supruga Jane i ja proveli noć kod jedne raseljene bosanske porodice u njihovom domu blizu Višegrada.
Od ljepote predjela zastaje dah. Mjesto se nalazi visoko u planinama odakle se pruža pogled na rijeku Drinu koja teče dolinom nekoliko stotina metara niže.
Zajedno sa našim domaćinom te noći, porodicom Šetkić, [...]

Let me begin by thanking the UNDP and our friend Moises (Venancio- UNDP Resident Representative) for organising this event. The UNDP has formidable experience in governance reform. You see it done best – and worst, all over the world.
Here in BiH, you are certainly approaching the subject of governance reform from the right perspective – fr [...]

The connection between economic theory and practice is a crucial issue, at the heart of the present effort to create a self-sustaining market democracy in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The good news is that today the proportion of good ideas being transformed into sound and useful legislation is increasing substantially. This is because government [...]

Prije godinu dana sam imao čast i privilegiju da preuzmem funkciju visokog predstavnika u Bosni i Hercegovini.
Tokom tih godinu dana smo postigli mnogo; ali pred nama je još mnogo toga što treba uraditi.
Kada sam počeo raditi ovaj posao, rekao sam da će moji prioriteti biti pravda i posao.
Te oblasti su još uvijek moji priorite [...]

We are here today to inaugurate a BiH project that is a positive model of how companies in this country can expand successfully – and create new jobs and raise living standards.
This information pillar is a small steel computer platform with dedicated software – but it is much much more than the sum of its parts.
For one thing, it rep [...]

First of all, allow me to commend Prime Minister Mikerevic on his lucid and authoritative presentation this morning. The Prime Minister has spoken about measures that are necessary in order to stimulate investment. It will fall to the Prime Minister and his government to implement these measures - his working day is dominated by the challenge of pu [...]

želio bih započeti, kao i uvijek, izražavajući vam svoju zahvalnost zbog toga što ste me pozvali da prisusustvujem današnjem zasjedanju.
Prošli smo kroz nekoliko burnih mjeseci, pa je od važnosti da se na ovom mjestu pojavim lično da saslušam vaša mišljenja, a vi moja.
Dolazim u pravom trenutku. Okončali smo prvu fazu našeg putovanj [...]

Thank you for inviting me to the official launch of the “Trans-Adriatic Conference – Interreg IIIA”. Thank you, especially, to Italy and to Foreign Minister Frattini for the strong support you have given to this initiative: and thank you, and congratulations, to BiH, and to Minister Ivanic, for hosting the first conference.
The extension to [...]