17.02.2005

OHR’s Statement at the International Agencies’ Joint Press Conference in Banja Luka

The BiH House of Representatives at its session tomorrow will consider a package of legislation that establishes the pre-trial detention facility on the grounds of the Court of BiH. This package consists of the Law on Execution of Criminal Sanctions, Detention and other Measures of BiH and the Law on the amendments to the BiH Criminal Procedure Cod [...]
15.02.2005

Transcript of the International Agencies’ Joint Press Conference

BiH Parliamentarians are preparing once again to attempt to increase the benefits and privileges that they are entitled to through the Law on Rights and Duties of the Members of the Parliamentary Assembly of BiH (Zakon o pravima i duznostima clanova Parlamentarne skupstine BiH). This legislation is to be considered by the Constitutional and Legal C [...]
15.02.2005

OHR’s Statement at the International Agencies’ Joint Press Conference

BiH Parliamentarians are preparing once again to attempt to increase the benefits and privileges that they are entitled to through the Law on Rights and Duties of the Members of the Parliamentary Assembly of BiH (Zakon o pravima i duznostima clanova Parlamentarne skupstine BiH). This legislation is to be considered by the Constitutional and Legal C [...]
10.02.2005

OHR’s Statement at the International Agencies’ Joint Press Conference in Banja Luka

The OHR is once again in the position where it has to remind the highest levels of the RS authorities about the nature of the RS’s status as an Entity, under the Dayton Peace Agreement. The Dayton Peace Agreement provides certain guarantees to the RS, provided the RS recognises the sovereignty of the State of Bosnia and Herzegovina - not the other [...]
09.02.2005

OHR’s Statement at the International Agencies’ Joint Press Conference in Mostar

As you know, in Brussels last week the Steering Board of the Peace Implementation Council called on the State and Entity authorities to address the unsustainable cost of governance - now consuming more than half of the national economic production. The sprawling administrative structure means that citizens are paying too much money for too little s [...]
08.02.2005

OHR’s Statement at the International Agencies’ Joint Press Conference

The High Representative Paddy Ashdown will today visit Doboj where he’ll meet police officers and their families. The High Representative will hear their views on police reform, in light of the publication of the recommendations of Chairman of the Police Reform Commission's report last week.
08.02.2005

Transcript of the International Agencies’ Joint Press Conference

The High Representative Paddy Ashdown will today visit Doboj where he’ll meet police officers and their families. The High Representative will hear their views on police reform, in light of the publication of the recommendations of Chairman of the Police Reform Commission's report last week.
03.02.2005

OHR’s Statement at the International Agencies’ Joint Press Conference in Banja Luka

The meeting of the Steering Board of the Peace Implementation Council started at 09.00 this morning in Brussels. Representatives of BiH’s authorities; Prime Minister Adnan Terzic, RS President Dragan Cavic, and RS Minister of Interior Darko Matijasevic, are about to start their briefing to the PIC as we speak. The meeting will also be briefed by IC [...]