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The Principal Deputy High Representative, Donald Hays, will visit the Coca Cola factory in Hadzici this afternoon.
Coca Cola, as you know, is a long-standing investor in BiH. It was active here before the war and has created more than 300 jobs since it restarted operations here in 1996. The governments are now engaged in a focused effort to [...]

The High Representative, Paddy Ashdown, is visiting Mostar today. This afternoon he will meet young people and spend time working on a small family farm.
The High Representative will meet representatives of 11 non-governmental organisations and informal groups who have banded together to create a youth centre in the ruins of prewar facility [...]

Some commentators have criticised the Special Auditor for publicly identifying mismanagement and corruption at BH Telecom, Telekom Srpske and HT Mostar -- on the grounds that by highlighting these shortcomings, the auditor has lowered the value of these companies, or worse as an attempt to discredit the findings themselves by people who have a pers [...]

The Principal Deputy High Representative, Donald Hays, was to have delivered a speech in Stockholm today at an international conference on Conflict Management and Conflict Prevention. However, he was unable to attend the conference because bad weather interrupted flights out of Sarajevo. The speech will be circulated at the conference, and I have b [...]

Paddy Ashdown met yesterday evening with NATO Secretary General George Robertson and then later with ambassadors of NATO member countries in Brussels. The High Representative this morning briefed European Union ambassadors in Brussels on the situation in BiH and this afternoon he will be travelling to New York.

The OHR would just like to comment on the pensioners' demonstration a couple of days ago. These demonstrations were a wake-up call for the BiH authorities, and for all of us.

By using their democratic right to protest, the pensioners have reminded the BiH authorities that they need to increase the pace of reform. Pensions in this cou [...]

Message to the political leaders of BiH from the High Representative:
“The next few hours and days will be crucial for the future of BiH.
The Peace Implementation Council of the International Community are gathering in Sarajevo over the next two days. They will assess whether BiH is moving seriously down the road of reform. In part [...]

The OHR only has one thing for you today. And that is an appeal from the High Representative to those raising concerns about the proposals of the Defence Reform Commission: “Give Parliament a chance”
The reforms that are being drawn up by the Commission should rightly be debated in parliament, through the democratic process of this country [...]

Following public statements by a number of politicians, including RS President Dragan Cavic and BiH Foreign Minister Mladen Ivanic, the OHR would like to correct a number of misunderstandings about the ongoing reforms in the public broadcasting system of BiH.
First, the ongoing reform process is about saving the current System, including the [...]

The High Representative, Paddy Ashdown, Chairman of the Council of Ministers Adnan Terzic, Chairman of the Expert Commission on Intelligence Reform Kalman Kocsis, and Senior Deputy High Representative Werner Wnendt will hold a press conference at 13.00 on Tuesday 16 September, at the OHR, Sarajevo