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The High Representative, Paddy Ashdown, wrote today to Chairman of the Council of Ministers, Adnan Terzic, urging him and the Council to put in parliamentary procedure, without any further delays, the Draft Law on Intelligence and Security Agency.
It has been more then two months since the Intelligence Reform Commission, lead by Hungarian In [...]

Bosnia and Herezegovina is entering make-or-break week on the key reforms that are necessary for joining NATO’s Partnership for Peace, and for moving closer to the European Union.
Defence Reform
Today, the BiH House of Representatives is due to vote on the state level defence reform law, which will establish a state ministry of defen [...]

The next meeting of Bjelasnica - Igman Project Working Group, chaired by the High Representative Paddy Ashdown, will take place tomorrow afternoon at Sumarski fakultet facilities, at Mountain Igman. The topic of this meeting will be presentation of long-term development plans. Photographers and cameramen are invited to cover the start of the meetin [...]

Today the European Commission will be taking a historic decision on whether or not to approve BiH moving to the next phase of European integration. I am not going to speculate on the result. That is a matter for the Commission. But one thing is clear: BiH will only get into the EU if it reforms.
There are currently a number of laws in front [...]

The High Representative, Paddy Ashdown, will travel tomorrow to Moscow where he will meet with the Russian Foreign Minister, Igor Ivanov.
As you know the Russian Federation is a key member of the Peace Implementation Council Steering Board.
The discussions on Friday will focus BiH’s progress and the High Representative will update For [...]

The PDHR Donald Hays made an opening speech today at the conference named "Doing Business in Bosnia and Herzegovina" organized by CHF (Cooperative Housing Foundation) International at Holiday Inn, Sarajevo, in which he called for continued improved in vocational training in BiH.
Aim of the conference is to find practical solutions to som [...]

The High Representative, Paddy Ashdown, and the Principal Deputy High Representative, Donald Hays, will hold a press conference, on the RS Government’s proposal to raise salaries and pensions today at 12.30 at the OHR, Sarajevo.
The OHR, in co-operation with Elektroprivrede, is launching today an information leaflet on electricity reconnect [...]

The OHR welcomes the fact that BiH now has in place the funding to exercise its right as a member of the Council of Europe to become a shareholder in the CoE Development Bank (CEB). This means that we are on track for transferring the responsibility on refugee returns to BiH authorities by the end of this year.
The British government confirm [...]

An hour or so ago in the Hague the Donor Conference got under way. The conference is aimed at raising international support for the funding of a Specialized Chamber in the Court of BiH which will deal with war crimes.
Experts will present a breakdown of the proposed budget and how the work of the specialized chamber will fit into existing s [...]

The High Representative, Paddy Ashdown, together with his wife Jane, stayed overnight with a pensioner in the village of Past in the hills above Rudo last night.
The High Representative learned first hand from this pensioner and subsistence farmer about the difficulties he and his wife face in trying to survive on a pension of 90 KM.
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