OHR related Interviews

It is a good question and I will reply to it. First of all, I would like to say that I welcome the constructive tone of these statements. When I first arrived in this country I said I was interested in actions and not in words and indeed I want to emphasise that these are good words, now I am waiting for the appropriate actions. One thing that Mr T [...]

We have to be honest and clear and say that that no one, and even the international community, is infallible. What I can say with certainty is that no mistake, in any segment, was made deliberately. The tensions you mention were caused by those who should have taken care of the interests of BiH citizens, and Croats as well, rather than embarked o [...]

Paddy Ashdown, High Representative of the International Community, says that the economic crisis can be avoided, but it is now necessary to carry out urgent economic reforms and rely on ourselves and not the International Community.
“At the moment, people live in dreams. Those steps will be difficult, but the future is now completely in you [...]

We have welcomed the decision on the part of the president Cavic to disband this “wiretapping and surveillance unit”. We believe that it is of extreme importance for SFOR to get involved in that process. This raises a whole series of additional issues. If Cavic did not know anything about it, then the question is: why didn’t he know? Why didn’t Mr. [...]

25 individuals from BiH will soon be on the “persona non grata” list of the European Union. This is our part of hundred individuals for whom we have evidence that they participated in organised crime and have been helping individuals indicted for war crimes to hide – the High Representative, Paddy Ashdown, said at the start of his interview with “D [...]

Bosnia and Herzegovina will have functional a state customs administration by the end of the year, announced the Principal Deputy High Representative Donald Hays in his interview for “Dnevni avaz”.
Hays, who is acting chairman of the Commission which is to prepare all the necessary documentation which will serve as the legal basis for the i [...]

DAVID FROST: We turn now, after years on the fringes of power as leader of the Liberal Democrats, to Paddy Ashdown, who now has the authority most elected politicians can only ever dream of, ... the prime minister and all laws passed by parliament, but as the International Community's High Representative in Bosnia it's a job few would envy. He's be [...]

A non-rotating chair and two deputies who will also be ministers, as well as eight ministries, including the ministry of interior – this is the most concise summary of the results of the Council of Ministers reform talks. The future government of Bosnia and Herzegovina will have ministries for foreign affairs, economic relations and foreign t [...]

Some people say he wavers. Others say he wants to make Bosnia a protectorate. The High Representative for BiH, Paddy Ashdown, says he is neither of these two, but only a practical politician.

Paddy Ashdown, High Representative in BiH, enjoyed only a brief period of tranquility after taking office from his successor Wolfgang Petritsch. In the recent weeks, the media in BiH have launched a real offensive, accusing Ashdown of sympathizing with SDA, preventing Karadzic’s arrest, while the more serious ones begrudge that, after an elec [...]