10.05.2002

Speech by PDHR Donald Hays “Investing in Bosnia and Herzegovina: Possibilities and Experience”to the International Business Forum in Mostar

We are here today to discuss the investment climate in Bosnia and Herzegovina and what can be done to improve it. So let’s look candidly at why investors are hesitant about putting their money into the local economy. Some of the reasons are fairly straightforward: the recent war has left a legacy of negative perception - lingering images of violenc [...]
12.03.2002

Speech by the Senior Deputy High Representative, Matthias Sonn, on “Humanitarian Interventions and Crisis Management: the Lessons of the Balkan Experience” at the Annual IRIS Strategic Conference

In the last six years, Bosnia and Herzegovina has undergone a triple transition - from war to peace, from communism to democracy, from a planned economy to a market economy - and let’s not forget that like many countries, including the other countries of former Yugoslavia, it has had to define itself -- for the first time in its modern histor [...]
09.02.2002

Speech by the High Representative, Wolfgang Petritsch at International Conference “Developing New Policies of International Support-Lessons (not) Learned in BiH” – Peace and Security – institutional development and the rule of law

In the two and a half years since I became High Representative in BiH, I have found myself repeating the phrases "institution building" and "rule of law" again and again - not because they have some sort of mantra-like power but because they are shorthand for the body of legislation and practice which a modern democracy needs in order to work prope [...]