Brčko Supervision – Press and Public Information

Sarajevo, 24 April 2001 It is a pleasure to be in Brcko, and to be able to meet with you so soon after my arrival. The people of this District have achieved a lot since the end of the war. Their achievements are even greater when you consider the bitter disputes over the future of this area left by the war.

Sarajevo, 20 April 2001 The High Representative, Wolfgang Petritsch, has yesterday appointed Ambassador Henry L. Clarke Supervisor of the District of Brcko. An experienced negotiator, Ambassador Clarke was most recently the State Department’s Senior Advisor for Property Restitution dealing with the recovery of assets seized in the Holocaust. [...]

Brcko, 17 February 2001 Brcko, February 17, 2001 - As a further step in regulating the Arizona Market’s legal status within the authority of the Brcko District Government and in furtherance of the Supervisory Order dated November 16, 2000 on Arizona Market, the Supervisor of Brcko District Ambassador Gary L.

Sarajevo, 02 February 2001 Ambassador Gary Matthews, Deputy High Representative and Supervisor of Brcko, has sent a letter to Mr. Dragan Covic, Acting Prime Minister of the Federation B&H, and Mr. Mladen Ivanic, Prime Minister of the Republika Srpska, in regard to privatization in the Brcko District of B&H.

Brcko, 05 January 2001 SRNA, in its report on Brcko, dated 4 January 2001, claims that, according to a plan brought by the Brcko District Government Department for Urbanism, the Arizona Market will not be moved, but rather regulated at its present location by June 2001.

Brcko, 17 November 2000 The Supervisor of Brcko, Ambassador Gary Matthews, issued yesterday, 16 November 2000, an Order on the Arizona Market, following the decision by OHR, OSCE, UNMiBH and SFOR to tackle the problems associated with this market, articulated in the joint statement dated 26 October 2000. The Supervisory Order includes three sets of [...]

Brcko, 05 November 2000 Recently, there have been threats, including open threats, made against various officials and their families by extremist elements. This is intolerable. This is criminal. On Friday, November 3, 2000 we received the text of a statement issued in Brcko by the Main Board of the so-called Ravnogorski Chetniks' Movement. The cont [...]

Sarajevo, 26 October 2000 The International Community views with serious concern the many criminal problems and safety issues associated with the so-called "Arizona Market", located in Brcko District. Criminal activities there have grown steadily, including: prostitution; trafficking in women; abetting and exploiting the flow of illegal immigrants; [...]

Brcko, 25 September 2000 The Brcko District Government has taken over all housing and return issues in the territory of the District, following a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) agreed to during the Inter-Entity meeting on Brcko that took place on Tuesday, 19 September 2000. The MoU was signed by the Minister of Social Affairs, Displaced Persons [...]

Brcko, 20 September 2000 The Governments of the Republika Srpska, the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Brcko District of Bosnia and Herzegovina, under the auspices of the Supervisor of Brcko, Ambassador Gary Matthews, agreed yesterday evening on a Memorandum of Understanding on the implementation of the arbitration Final Award for Brcko [...]