The High Representative, Wolfgang Petritsch, on his way to Banja Luka in a SFOR helicopter,20 December 2001
Photograph: John Bennett.

House Cleaning headed by Ambassador Matthias Sonn, Senior Deputy High Representative in Gornji Vakuf - Uskoplje on 10 November 2001. This event was a joint effort by Dagmar Troglauer (HELP) and her colleagues, OHR RRTF (Sarajevo and Travnik), OHR Special Envoy to Bugojno, GVU Supervisor and Office of the SDHR.

Photographs: Dagmar Troglauer, Help; Herbert Rath, Stefan Röhl

WP and Sonja Moser-Starrach, Special Representative to BiH of the Secretary General of the Council of Europe WP and Zarko Papic, Director of the Independent Bureau for Humanitarian Issues (IBHI), Sarajevo.

Photographs: Namik Djozic

The High Representative, Wolfgang Petritsch, and the Head of the European Commission delegation to Bosnia and Herzegovina, Hans Joerg Kretschmer, visiting the firm of P.V.S.H. Alplast in the Sarajevo suburb of Ilijas, where they viewed production facilities and met the management and staff. Employing mainly returnees, the firm produces and sells plastic and aluminium doors and windows.P.V.S.H. Alplast is a beneficiary of the EU Quick Impact Facility (QIF), and is featured as a positive example of a successful small to medium-size business in the radio and TV series "Od ideje do biznisa" ("From an idea to a business").The series promotes sustainable economic development in BiH, which in part, depends on encouraging and supporting the growth of small and medium-size businesses. The message of the series, and of this visit, is that you can do it too - "Vi to mozete".

The Civic Forum is an initiative of the High Representative aimed at improving the dialogue between the international community and BiH intellectuals and representatives of the civic society. The participants of the first session at the High Representative's home in Sarajevo were: Fra Petar Andjelovic, Srdjan Dizdarevic, Sacir Filandra, Zdravko Grebo, Boro Kontic, Ivan Lovrenovic, Zarko Papic and Sevima Sali Terzic / From the OHR: the High Representative, John Bennett, Alexandra Stiglmayer, Enver Ferhatovic.

The High Representative, Wolfgang Petritsch, meets with the Chairman of the Council of Ministers, Dr Zlatko Lagumdzija, other members of the Council, and Federation Prime Minister Alija Behmen and RS Prime Minister Mladen Ivanic, at the second session of the Consultative Partnership Forum.

Photographs: Zijad Kasupovic

The High Representative, Wolfgang Petritsch, along with the Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General, Jacques Klein, representatives of the international community and the BiH authorities, laid flowers at the memorial to the victims of the helicopter accident near Fojnica, on the fourth anniversary of the accident. We honour the memory of the twelve who died: Peter Backes, Livio Beccaccio, Andrzej Buler, David Kriskovich, Leah Melnick, Charles Morpeth, William Nesbitt, Marvin Padgett, Thomas Reinhardt, Jurgen Schauf, Georg Stiebler and Gerd Wagner.

Wolfgang Petritsch, the High Representative, meeting with Carla Del Ponte, 5 September 2001.

Photographs: Zijad Kasupovic

The High Representative, Wolfgang Petritsch, and the State Minister for Human Rights and Refugees, Kresimir Zubak, reviewed progress made this year in the human-rights field in Bosnia and Herzegovina and introduced the Mid-Year Review of Human Rights Priorities for 2001 as set by the Human Rights Task Force.

Photographs: Zijad Kasupovic

Photographs: Almin Zrno

The High Representative, Wolfgang Petritsch, attending the commemoration ceremony in Srebrenica for the victims of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre. At the site, designated by the High Representative for a memorial and cemetery for the victims of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre a marker stone was unveiled. The event was attended by thousands of family members and friends of the victims, civic and political leaders from Bosnia and Herzegovina and representatives of the International community.

Photographs: Ahmet Bajric-Blicko

 

The High Representative accompanies ambassadors to Bosnia and Herzegovina on a helicopter visit to key return areas across the country. The visits to Gornje Kolibe, Janja, Mostar, Gornja/Donja Crnca, Halapic and Podgremec were organised in cooperation with SFOR and UNHCR to show returns success stories and highlight the kind of further assistance needed.

Photographs: Danilo Krstanovic

The High Representative, Wolfgang Petritsch, following his meeting on 11 June 2001 in Sarajevo with Her Majesty Queen Noor of Jordan, who was visiting the region to promote the work of the International Commission on Missing Persons (ICMP). HM Queen Noor was accompanied by the newly appointed ICMP Chairman, James Kimsey - the founder of America On Line (AOL), and US Ambassador to Bosnia and Herzegovina, Thomas Miller.

Photographs: Zijad Kasupovic

The High Representative, Wolfgang Petritsch, during his visit to Tuzla on 6 June 2001 where he, together with Freimut Duve, OSCE Representative on Freedom of Media, Selim Beslagic, President of Tuzla Canton, and Tuzla Mayor Jasmin Imamovic, opened the mobile.culture.container, a mobile school that will tour South Eastern Europe in the coming months.

Photographs: Ahmet Bajric-Blicko

Swedish Foreign Minister Anna Lindh, EU Commissioner for External Relations Chris Patten and Belgium's Secretary of State for Foreign Trade, Annemie Neyts-Uytterbroeck.

Photographs taken by Zijad Kasupovic

The High Representative, Wolfgang Petritsch, and the U.S. Secretary of State, Colin Powell, during their meeting in Washington D.C. on Friday, March 23 2001.

Photographs taken by Andrea Mais-Siffert

The High Representative, Wolfgang Petritsch, and the Secretary General of the United Nations, Kofi Annan, during their meeting in New York on Thursday, 22 March 2001.

Photographs taken by Petra Liebetanz

The High Representative, Wolfgang Petritsch, attends a ceremony marking the opening of the main terminal of Sarajevo International Airport. The airport was the life-line for besieged Sarajevo during the 1992-1995 conflict. The terminal was reconstructed with funds donated by the Dutch Government and the European Union. The opening ceremony was held in a main hall of Sarajevo International Airport today March 15th 2001 at 16.00hrs.