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Paddy Ashdown, High Representative in BiH, enjoyed only a brief period of tranquility after taking office from his successor Wolfgang Petritsch. In the recent weeks, the media in BiH have launched a real offensive, accusing Ashdown of sympathizing with SDA, preventing Karadzic’s arrest, while the more serious ones begrudge that, after an elec [...]

I have seen comments in some media that a campaign to destroy the Republika Srpska is under way. This is wrong. I will say what I have already said before – not everyone must like Dayton but the reality of its existence must be respected. All I am trying to do within the domain of the Constitution is to create effective government. Theref [...]

The international community will not falsify the results of the elections because we do not control the election process, end even if we did, we would not do so. BiH will implement these elections in whole and we do not play any role therein. It is clear to me that BiH is a place where it is possible to hear various conspiracy theories. Yet, ev [...]

The High Representative for BiH, former leader of the British liberals and peace mediator, Paddy Ashdown, has been in Sarajevo since May, and, as it seems, he is trying to keep up the pace with the speed of reforms that should be implemented in Bosnia and Herzegovina in the forthcoming period. Ashdown spoke to Slobodna Dalmacija about that, but als [...]

The International Community has its favourites only in theory, not in practice. These are persons who believe in reforms, a free market, investments that contribute to the wellbeing of people in this country. This is our theoretic concept and we now observe candidates and monitor as to who fits best into the developed profile. However, we do not v [...]

BiH has the lowest inflation rate, that is, it has the most stable currency, we have freedom of movement and elections are taking place in peace. Much more has been achieved here in six years than in the Northern Ireland in 30 years…

If things with the IMF do not finish as they should, everything could burst like a soap bubble, warns Ashdown. “I am here to ask them not to lose patience. BiH made commitments which she has to live up to.” High Representative Paddy Ashdown and Governor of the Central Bank of Bosnia and Herzegovina Peter Nicholl yesterday flew to Washi [...]

"In the RS, BiH as well as in the Balkans we have not created a single economic and civic space. However we have a single criminal space which works regardless of borders. This is a regional problem which has to be tackled at the regional level, because this is a threat to every country in the Balkans", said the High Representative for BiH, Paddy A [...]

: I am happy to be back in BiH. I am impressed by the changes for the better in Sarajevo and I think that every day you should remind yourselves of that. Sarajevo, however, is not BiH. The situation outside of this city, which nowadays has started to look like any other European city, is much more difficult, there are places where obstruction of th [...]

A huge burden during my three-years mandate was the fact that former leaders of Bosnian Serbs - Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic - were at large, preventing faster changes in BiH, said outgoing High Representative to BiH Wolfgang Petritsch in the last interview to reporters of domestic media, before leaving the duty on May 27.