10/13/2003

Article by the Principal Deputy High Representative, Donald Hays

Transition to a prosperous market economy involves more than changing regulations and laws – it requires a change of mindset. And the indignant reaction from some quarters to the Special Auditor’s reports on public utilities companies shows that certain people haven’t yet made this mindset transition.
The free market works on a very simple p [...]
10/08/2003

High Representative’s Response to Editorial Commentary in Washington Times

Jeffrey T. Kuhner’s commentary (Redrawing Bosnian Borders, 1 October 2003) argues that the International Community and its partners in Bosnia and Herzegovina have failed to set this country on the road to economic and political recovery.
This is not true.
The people of Bosnia and Herzegovina have come a long way towards re-establishin [...]
09/19/2003

Article by the Principal Deputy High Representative, Donald Hays: “Stop the Nonsense”

Four months ago, when the BiH authorities and representatives of the main international organisations met at Bjelasnica, the governments considered practical measures to encourage job growth. As a result of that meeting, the BiH, RS and FbiH governments committed themselves to actions that will clean up the business environment, boost exports and a [...]
09/16/2003

Article by the High Representative, Paddy Ashdown: “A Culture of Consensus”

Politics is about getting things done. Good politics is about getting the right things done. Bad politics produces bad results -- little gets done, and often what does get done shouldn’t get done. No sane person could possibly argue that BiH has been in any way a showcase for good politics. It has to change, and to do that it has to develop a cultu [...]
08/26/2003

Letter to the Editorial, Slobodna Bosna

I am writing to you following the disgraceful and unfounded attack on the integrity of a senior Russian diplomat working on secondment in the OHR (“Slobodna Bosna” br. 353, 21 August 2003). The OHR categorically rejects these allegations as unsubstantiated and untrue...
07/06/2003

Letter to the Guardian by Julian Braithwaite, Director of Communications

Your article of 5 July by Ian Traynor (“Ashdown ‘running Bosnia like a Raj’”) gives extensive and undue prominence to a preposterous comparison between the work of the international community in Bosnia and Herzegovina and colonialism in India. Your reporter has also compounded the mistake by misrepresenting my views.