Konferencije za medije

The High Representative, Paddy Ashdown, will be in Brussels and London tomorrow. In Brussels he will attend a meeting in his role as the EU's Special Representative chaired by the EU's High Representative of a Common Foreign and Securty Policy Javier Solana. The meeting will also be attended by all the acting EUSRs (there are 7). Discussion will [...]

We had a very good and constructive PIC, which was dedicated to primary topics. One was internal matters, and the PIC made a historic decision which I will want to draw your attention to in the near future, and the other was, the main topic was the issue of what we hope is only current turbulence in the whole reform process – characterized of cour [...]

The Political Directors of the Peace Implementation Council Steering Board will meet at the OHR in Sarajevo on Thursday 23 June and Friday 24 June. The Political Directors last met, in Brussels, on 7 April. This week’s meeting will address Bosnia and Herzegovina’s current difficulties in resolving remaining obstacles on the road to Europe. The meet [...]

The Principal Deputy High Representative, Larry Butler, will speak this afternoon at an investment conference in Sarajevo. Ambassador Butler will call for a more forthright role for entrepreneurs, employers, managers and trades union members in lobbying for a better business environment in BiH.

The Principal Deputy High Representative, Larry Butler, is speaking today at a conference in Munich on the Economic Challenges and Regional Implications of the Dayton Process. In his speech, Ambassador Butler notes that "the constitutional evolution of Bosnia and Herzegovina is beginning to be directed by circumstances that five years ago few woul [...]

As you know, the High Representative returned last night together with Prime Minister Terzic, from a visit to Brussels, where they held talks with senior EU officials including Enlargement Commissioner Olli Rehn and High Representative for Common Foreign and Security Policy Javier Solana.

The High Representative is in Brussels today where this evening he will meet with the European Unions High Representative, Javier Solana and the Commissioner for Enlargement, Olli Rehn.

I just want to comment briefly on yesterday’s developments in the Council of Ministers, and as we see it, their significance for what happens in the second half of this year. Two and a half years ago when this government was elected to power, I said that I saw it as my job to work with them to squeeze out of them as much reform as possible, with Eu [...]

The composition of the government in Bosnia and Herzegovina is a matter for this country's elected leaders, not the OHR's, but we cannot see how yesterday’s decision will help advance reforms at this key moment in BiH's relations with the European Union.

At the request of BiH Prime Minister Adnan Terzic the High Representative, Paddy Ashdown, today appointed Sredoje Novic as the Director of the State Investigation and Protection Agency. The High Representative has issued this Decision following seven months of uncertainty over this appointment. In appointing Director Novic the High Representative h [...]