Говори

Brcko, 31 March 2000 President Djapo, Vice President Pajic, Mayor Kisic, Members of the Government, Chief and Deputy Chiefs of Police, Councilors: This is an important day for Brcko. Today, with the opening of the Interim Assembly, two of the main pillars of government of the Brcko District of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the executive and legislative b [...]

Brcko, 08 March 2000 I am delighted to be here today on this historic occasion -- the inauguration of the Brcko District. I would like to welcome the members of the Presidency, Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and Commissioner Chris Patten. This day could not have come about without an enormous amount of hard work from a great many people.

Vienna, 02 March 2000 Mr. Chairman, your Excellencies, I am grateful for having been given the opportunity to address you today not on the situation in Kosovo as I did last time in my capacity as EU Envoy, but for the first time in my capacity as High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Bosnia and Herzegovina: On its way to a modern European society? London,18 February 2000 Ladies and Gentlemen, I am honoured to have the opportunity of addressing you today, and to bring you up to date on what is going on in Bosnia and Herzegovina. In order not to sound naively optimistic, I have added - after much discussion with my colleagues - [...]

Stability Pact Working Table on Security Issues, Sarajevo, 15 February 2000 Special Coordinator Hombach, Foreign Minister Prlic, Co-Chair Ambassador Turkovic, distinguished guests and delegates, I am glad to have the opportunity to make some opening remarks from the vantage point of my office. During the past few weeks, along with other representat [...]

Dear Ladies and Gentlemen, your Excellencies, I would like to welcome you all to the Bosnia and Herzegovina Anti-Corruption and Transparency conference, and express my great pleasure to see so many representatives from all parts of public life: members of the Presidency, ministers and members of parliaments, members of judiciary, and representative [...]

Sarajevo, 28 July 1999 Ladies and Gentlemen, At the end of this week, as you know, Sarajevo will host the Stability Pact for South Eastern Europe. This is quite the most important event in Sarajevo since the winter olympics of 1984 - and has the potential to be a watershed moment not just in the history of Bosnia and Herzegovina but in the history [...]

It is very fitting that I should be here today at the opening of Dom Zdravlja in a group which includes prime minister Milorad Dodik and his colleagues, and fellow representatives from the European Union (on the occasion of Portugal's national day).

Let me send you my good wishes for a successful Congress.

Politicians and diplomats are fond of talking of critical junctures, of turning points, of watersheds. Sometimes such talk is exaggerated. But I believe that in the case of your Congress today, it is not.

I am very grateful for this opportunity to speak to you this morning. I am grateful too to my colleagues from Bosnia, and for their assessments of the situation at this moment. Let me, in a moment, comment, seriatim, on the eight minimum conditions set out in the memorandum of the Bureau of the Assembly dated 25 September.