30.01.2003

Transcript of the International Agency’s Joint Press Conference at CPIC

This morning the Secretary General of the Standing Committee on Military Matters presented defense targets to the PIC Steering Board. The High Representative welcomed this as a first step, though he pointed out that the Bosnia and Herzegovina authorities will clearly have to do more work on this issue.
The High Representative praised the evi [...]
28.01.2003

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The High Representative, Paddy Ashdown, will address the Monitoring Committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe in Strasbourg this afternoon. He will report on Bosnia and Herzegovina’s progress in fulfilling the post-accession criteria set out by the CoE when BiH became the organisation’s 44th member state, on 24 April 2002... [...]
23.01.2003

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Good morning, I have just three very short announcements from the OHR.
As we speak, the High Representative Paddy Ashdown, together with the United States Ambassador at large for War Crime Issues Pierre-Richard Prosper is having a media address at the OHR, there will be more details on this later on today.
Also, there will be another [...]
21.01.2003

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Good morning, the first item for you today is regarding the Principle Deputy High Representatives visit to Banja Luka today.

The Principle Deputy High Representative Don Hays is chairing a conference on the State of the Bosnia and Herzegovina Economy in Banja Luka this afternoon. Joe Ingram of the World Bank and Renzo Daviddi of the [...]
16.01.2003

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Good morning everybody, I have one item for you today.

This morning, Thursday’s as you know, is the regular meeting of the Board of Principles, when the Heads of the main International Organisations gather in the OHR to discuss pertinent issues. The High Representative, will today be briefing the Board of Principles on the two prong [...]
14.01.2003

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Good morning, we are a few minutes late apologies, which are becoming routine now, but we will try very hard to start on time in the future. Greetings to all those who are celebrating New Year today.
A lot of our colleagues are at the OHR just now, were the ICTY conference is taking place this is the second day of a three-day conference. A [...]
09.01.2003

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Good morning, I have a number of points for you this morning, so I will move quickly along.

The first item, the High Representative wrote yesterday, to the Speaker of Canton 8, Zoran Vuksic. To say that the appropriate procedures have now been completed by various organisations and that nothing had come to light in the course of thi [...]
07.01.2003

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Good morning everybody. Thank you all very much for coming, it is a horrible day outside. On behalf of the OHR I would like to extend greetings to all those who are celebrating Christmas, today.
The main point from the OHR this morning is in relation to Customs Reform. As you know, the chairman of the International Working Group on Custom [...]
02.01.2003

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Thank you very much for coming on the day after New Year. I will briefly introduce our new colleague he is Jon Oscar Solnes, who you may have seen yesterday, he is the new spokesman for the European Union Police Mission. He will be giving a full statement today, setting on the role mandate and other details about the European Union Police Mission [...]
31.12.2002

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Good morning everybody, thank you very much for coming, and sorry to have kept you which is now becoming routine, our apologies So our new year’s resolution from Thursday will be to start the press conferences on time.
First point from OHR this morning concerns the vetting of ministers, which has got a considerable amount of interest over th [...]