OHR related Interviews
04/10/2002
Interview: Wolfgang Petritsch, the High Representative in BiH:”New Solutions are not emergency measures for Balkans”
After several hundred hours of negotiations between the two entities and representatives of the three peoples of Bosnia and Herzegovina, at the end of March an agreement was signed which promoted minorities in the Republika Srpska and Federation into citizens, with full rights. This means that their languages are recognised as official languages, t [...]
04/09/2002
Interview: Wolfgang Petritsch, the High Representative for BiH: “HVO has never received its 1,16 billion Kunas from Croatia”
In 1999 alone, the Croatian Government has secured 1,16 billion Kunas for the needs of the HVO and war victims and it was presented that out of this amount, 183 million Kunas went through the company Monitor M, then 692 million Kunas which were allocated to the HVO and another 285 million Kunas which were allocated for the needs of social welfare. [...]
04/04/2002
Interview: Ian Campbell, Deputy HR for legal affairs and Head of the Legal Department: “Each People in the Entire BiH has Constitutional Basis to Protect its Own Interests!”
Ian Campbell, one of the most esteemed legal experts in the United Kingdom, Deputy of Wolfgang Petritsch for legal affairs and Head of the Legal Department with the OHR, the main creator of the agreement on constitutional reconstruction of Bosnia and Herzegovina, speaks for the first time, in an exclusive interview with our journalist, for the publ [...]
04/03/2002
Sfor soll Druck auf bosnische Serben erhöhen Internationaler Bosnien-Verwalter Petritsch fordert Auslieferung mutmaßlicher Kriegsverbrecher
Der internationale Verwalter für Bosnien-Herzegowina, Wolfgang Petritsch, hat einen stärkeren Einsatz von Armee und Geheimdiensten bei der Suche nach mutmaßlichen Kriegsverbrechern auf dem Balkan gefordert. Es müssten Informationen darüber gesammelt werden, wie die Gesuchten seit Jahren ihre Flucht finanzierten.
03/15/2002
Interview: Donald Hays, Principal Deputy High Representative:“Banking will experience further changes”
In some instances, banks have served as the means of fraud and embezzlement * Not all banks fulfill the obligation to report cases of money laundering * BIH has undertaken a number of steps towards establishing a modern commercial banking system * OHR regards highly the work of major audit institutions
03/14/2002
Interview: Wolfgang Petritsch, the High Representative for BiH:”I Fear Destruction by the Powerless HDZ!”
On the eve of the second round of talks with the leaders of political parties in BiH about the models of implementation of the BH Constitutional Court Decision on the constituency of peoples, the High Representative of the International Community in BiH, Wolfgang Petritsch, gives an exclusive interview to our magazine about the results achieved so [...]
03/11/2002
Interview: Wolfgang Petritsch, the High Representative for BiH: “I Expect Full Implementation of the Decision on the Constituency of Peoples”
The High Representative for BiH, Wolfgang Petritsch, will stay in the top position as the most prominent representative of the international community in our country, for another 11 weeks. “More than two months of intensive and hard work are ahead of me. I will be very busy until the last minute of my stay here,” says the Austrian diplo [...]
03/07/2002
Interview: Donald Hays, Principal Deputy High Representative:”Some judges and prosecutors to be dismissed”
Working groups within the Cabinet of the High Representatives, whose formation was approved at the most recent session of the Peace Implementation Council Steering Board, are of a provisional character, like all other organizations of the International Community in BiH, believes Donald Hays, the Principal Deputy High Representative.
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03/06/2002
Interview: Wolfgang Petritsch, the High Representative for BiH, at the end of his three year “rule” in the Balkans: “The RS can disappear if it does not accept European Standards”
After his recent visit to Belgrade, and at the beginning of an interview with Nedeljni Telegraf, the International Community's High Representative for BiH, Wolfgang Petritsch, said the following about the constitutional reforms announced to take place in BiH: "These are the most constructive talks that I had so far in Belgrade. From both, President [...]
02/22/2002
Wolfgang Petritsch: Den Haag ist nicht Nürnberg, keine Siegerjustiz für Milosevic
Presse"-Gespräch. Bosnien-Beauftragter Wolfgang Petritsch zieht Bilanz über seine Arbeit am Balkan und über das internationale Krisenmanagement. Von unserem Korrespondenten BRÜSSEL. "DIE PRESSE": Sie werden Ende Mai ihre Aufgabe als Internationaler Bosnien-Beauftragter beenden. Es gibt wirtschaftliche Fortschritte in der Region. Gibt es auch eine p [...]