OHR related Interviews

Austrian diplomat, until May this year in the position of the High Representative for BiH, Wolfgang Petritsch has gained great experience in the territory of former Yugoslavia. As an Ambassador or Envoy he has worked in Serbia and BiH. He was praised and criticized for almost everything he did. Currently, while he is coming to the end of his mandat [...]

Diaspora may play very important role in the affirmation of a positive and peaceful image of BIH. That will certainly motivate international investors to become more active

Serb news agency asked the High Representative, Mr. Wolfgang Petritsch, ten questions, which encompass most important segments of life in BiH and the present dilemmas, such as: changes to the BiH constitution, parity or proportional system of formation of government, restitution, new population census, real chances for BiH’s accession to the [...]

In less then half a year Wolfgang Petrisch will be leaving his current post and will be replaced by Lord Paddy Ashdown. Until that moment arrives he has an important episode ahead of him with the forthcoming constitutional changes. The outcome of the changes will reflect on his image the moment he leaves the post of HR

The top international official charged with bringing lasting peace to Bosnia said on Thursday he detected a new determination among major powers to bring Serb wartime leader Radovan Karadzic to justice. High Representative Wolfgang Petritsch also urged local leaders to build on the Dayton agreement which ended the 1992-95 war and make greater effor [...]

After returning from Brussels where he met NATO officials, the High Representative in BiH, Wolfgang Petritsch, gave an interview to "Nezavisne" and spoke about many issues such as the possibility of BiH joining the Partnership for Peace programme. He also repeated that BiH is going through a historic moment just before the implementation of the Con [...]

I am not against the introduction of a House of Peoples in the Republika Srpska as well. But, the people of this country, politicians, should discuss this and agree on this… It is very important for me that the best possible solution is reached in the implementation of the Decision of the Constitutional court of BiH on the constituent status [...]

The Republic of Srpska is still too Serb and too little res publica, a community of all three constituent peoples · Karlo Filipovic has to solve problems with RS politicians and not only with me

Der Hohe Repräsentant der internationalen Gemeinschaft in Bosnien, Wolfgang Petritsch, warnt vor Vorurteilen gegen Muslime. In dem Balkanland sehe er kein Zentrum des islamistischen Terrorismus. Der Kärntner Slowene und Südosteuropa-Historiker Petritsch war Botschafter in Belgrad und EU-Unterhändler während der Kosovo-Krise, bevor er sich seit 1999 [...]

I am absolutely certain that Ferhadija will be fully rebuilt – Ivanic could do much more if SDS had not received such large support of voters