Press Conferences

The High Representative is calling on the BiH Parliament to adopt the Interim Law on Merging the Customs Administrations and creating the Indirect Tax Authority under urgent procedure at the sessions of House of Representatives on Friday 27 June and the House of Peoples on Monday 30 June.

The High Representative, Paddy Ashdown, will today meet with the families of missing persons from the Ilidza Municipality in Sarajevo at the request of Amor Masovic, the head of the Federation Commission for Missing Persons and exhumations.
The High Representative greatly admires the courage and strength that these families have shown since [...]

The High Representative, Paddy Ashdown, will today meet with the families of missing persons from the Ilidza Municipality in Sarajevo at the request of Amor Masovic, the head of the Federation Commission for Missing Persons and exhumations. The High Representative greatly admires the courage and strength that these families have shown since their [...]

The High Representative, Paddy Ashdown, was in London today to give a keynote speech at the International Rescue Committee’s (IRC) annual lecture. On the eve of world refugee day, the High Representative used this opportunity to highlight the progress that had been made in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) in the seven and a half years since the Dayton [...]

The High Representative, Paddy Ashdown, was in London today to give a keynote speech at the International Rescue Committee's (IRC) annual lecture. On the eve of world refugee day, the High Representative used this opportunity to highlight the progress that had been made in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) in the seven and a half years since the Dayton [...]

HR met Secretary of Defence Donald Rumsfeld, Mark Grossman (Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs, State Dept), Daniel Fried (National Security Council), and Nancy Lee (Treasury Dept) among others in Washington on Monday.

At all his meetings, he briefed on where things had got to in BiH. He said that he was where he expe [...]

HR met Secretary of Defence Donald Rumsfeld, Mark Grossman (State Dept. Undersecretary for Political Affairs), Daniel Fried (National Security Council), and Nancy Lee (Treasury Dept) among others in Washington on Monday.
At all his meetings, he briefed on where things had got to in BiH. He said that he was where he expected to be after one [...]

The Political Directors of the Peace Implementation Council (PIC), the body that oversees the implementation of the Dayton Peace Agreement, begin a three-day meeting in Sarajevo yesterday evening.

Yesterday the meeting focused on the steps that must be taken before the end of this year in order to speed up the pace of economic reform [...]

The Political Directors of the Peace Implementation Council (PIC), the body that oversees the implementation of the Dayton Peace Agreement, begin a three-day meeting in Sarajevo yesterday evening.
Yesterday the meeting focused on the steps that must be taken before the end of this year in order to speed up the pace of economic reform and pr [...]

The High Representative, Paddy Ashdown, and his wife, Jane, stayed last night at the return site of Rohci, near Visegrad. Today they are spending time helping to repair the houses and clear ground for cultivation.
This is the most recent in a series of visits that Paddy Ashdown and his wife have undertaken to talk to returnees to find out m [...]