11/11/2021

CLAIM: “…the OHR has not done the most important thing: provided the translation of the Dayton Peace Agreement. For 26 years, there has been no official translation of the Dayton Peace Agreement, the Constitution, etc., to the languages of the peoples of BiH, and that is OHR’s job.”

FACT: The “Agreement for the Establishment of the Bosnian, Croatian and Serbian Language Texts of the Annexes to the General Framework Agreement” signed in Paris on 14 December 1995, stipulated that each party to the GFAP would provide the French Government with the respective language version. The French Government received a draft translation in Croatian from the Republic of Croatia and in Serbian from the then Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.

However, no draft translation into the Bosnian language was received from Bosnia and Herzegovina. Until this is finalized, the English version of the Annexes to the GFAP remains the only official version.