Intervjui

Deputy High Representative to BiH, Donald Hays, believes that the domestic government should be relying more on domestic forces, and less on the donors’ or other kind of assistance of the international community, so that it would not become totally passive. According to his opinion, the state government has proven to be capable in the aviation and [...]

The Decision of Lord Paddy Ashdown, the High Representative for BiH, taken in early July, to remove ten key officials of the Serb Democratic Party (SDS), and to conditionally exclude from political life an additional 50 members of the same party, was perceived in Republika Srpska not only as an attempt to destroy Karadzic’s former party, but also t [...]

A series of changes in legislation will regulate situation in business operations of electric and telecommunication companies here · Identification of clear responsibility. Representatives of the International Community in BiH launched broad activities to regulate affairs in BiH public companies. Donald Hays, Principal Deputy High Representative, [...]

What I can tell you is that many people from public enterprises now come to me saying that, despite the fact that there have been improvements in comparison to the earlier situation, the rate of revenue collection is still low, there are many problems with regard to public procurement, companies’ business plans still aren’t being defined or develop [...]

BiH is passing from a Dayton to a Brussels era – It can be argued that BiH has achieved considerable progress in implementing Feasibility Study priority reforms, Solana says EU High Representative for Common Foreign and Security Policy Javier Solana sends a message to the RS officials that they will become the main obstacle on BiH’s road to Europ [...]

Speaking of the results achieved during the past two years, since taking on the mandate of High Representative, Ashdown said that the foundations had been laid for the establishment of a state according to the European model, one which was on the road to membership of European and Euro-Atlantic institutions.

The High Representative in BiH, Paddy Ashdown, said today that during the first two years of his mandate, which is to be marked on 27 May, the foundations for Bosnia and Herzegovina’s establishment as a European state on the road to European and Euro-Atlantic structures, have been laid.

High Representative Paddy Ashdown is pretty much convinced that Bosnia and Herzegovina will become a member of Partnership for Peace at the Istanbul Summit this summer. But… “Nothing in this country is probable, but all issues related to defense reform have been fulfilled. However, if there is no root reform of the RS when it comes to meeting the [...]

It was not a meeting designed to reach agreement. It was, you might say, rather a tough exchange of views. I think if I were to sum it up I would do so like this: A number of very important reforms were made last year, some of which required a great deal of courage from Republika Srpska. Making these decisions last year, on Defence, on the ITA, the [...]

“Following the events that took place in Pale, I will have to take action against the RS authorities, because I have been thinking, for some time now, what steps to take, so that the whole of BiH does not have to suffer and risk its chance to join the Partnership for Peace,” announced the High Representative, Paddy Ashdown.