OHR Press Releases

The High Representative and EU Special Representative, Valentin Inzko welcomed the decision of NATO Foreign Ministers at their meeting in Tallinn to invite Bosnia and Herzegovina to start the Membership Action Plan.

High Representative and EU Special Representative Valentin Inzko held talks yesterday evening with HDZ 1990 President Bozo Ljubic. The meeting was the latest in a series of meetings the HR/EUSR has had with BiH party leaders.

High Representative and EU Special Representative Valentin Inzko met today in Sarajevo with Swiss Foreign Minister and Chair of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe Micheline Calmy-Rey, who is visiting Bosnia and Herzegovina to monitor implementation by the BiH authorities of the Judgment of the Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg in [...]

The High Representative and EU Special Representative, Valentin Inzko, met today at the OHR with the President of the BiH Social Democratic Party, Zlatko Lagumdzija. This was the latest in a series of meetings the HR/EUSR has held with party leaders in recent weeks, focusing principally on the forthcoming elections.

The RS Government’s conclusions of 19 April are a despicable attempt to question that genocide took place in Srebrenica in July 1995 by deliberately distorting established historical and legal facts, and propagating misinformation and disinformation with the intent to obscure the truth.

The European Union is committed to “working with the people of Bosnia and Herzegovina so that they can enjoy the same security, prosperity and stability as citizens in the EU,” the High Representative and EU Special Representative, Valentin Inzko, said today, adding that “this process would move ahead much faster if BiH politicians dedicated some e [...]

The fractured BiH internal market is directly responsible for unemployment and scandalously widespread poverty, High Representative and EU Special Representative Valentin Inzko told a conference of parliamentarians and economic experts today.

The message that should go out loud and clear at the beginning of this year’s election campaign is that the potential exists to turn Bosnia and Herzegovina’s economic fortunes around,” the High Representative and EU Special Representative said. “Individual communities have been able to do this – but the country as a whole has not, and that is becau [...]

The High Representative and EU Special Representative, Valentin Inzko met today in Sarajevo with Spanish Foreign Minister, Miguel Anhel Moratinos and US Deputy Secretary of State, James Steinberg.