OHR Press Releases

High Representative and EU Special Representative Valentin Inzko wrote to Dunja Mijatović today to congratulate on her appointment as the OSCE’s Representative on Freedom of the Media in Vienna.

The EU has delivered security and prosperity to 500 million people by developing a free and vibrant single market and an open society protected by the rule of law, the High Representative and EU Special Representative, Valentin Inzko, told a conference on the BiH business environment yesterday.

The EU Special Representative/High Representative Valentin Inzko called on BiH parliamentarians, at the Parliament for Europe session held in Sarajevo today, to overcome resistance to creating a modernised BiH energy sector integrated in the European system, which would mean “security of supply, more investment and more jobs.”

Despite the damage that has been done to the BiH economy by the twin blows of protracted political deadlock at home and the global market downturn – both authorities and business community have it within their power to secure new investment and new jobs, High Representative and EU Special Representative Valentin Inzko told an economic conference [...]

In an editorial to be published in tomorrow’s edition of “Glas Srpske” under the title “The Intelligent Way to Proceed”, the High Representative and EU Special Representative, Valentin Inzko, explains that, faced with BiH’s five-year failure to make progress on resolving the question of state property, a key issue that affects citizens’ rights and [...]

The High Representative and EU Special Representative, Valentin Inzko, met with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Slovakia, Miroslav Lajčák, in Sarajevo today. The HR/EUSR briefed Minister Lajčák on political developments and on the status of efforts to make Bosnia and Herzegovina a functional country and put it back on the road to EU in [...]

The political forces that are pulling in different directions in Bosnia and Herzegovina do not, for the most part, apply principles that are the foundation of the European Union and that they claim to share, the EU Special Representative and High Representative, Valentin Inzko, told a meeting of the European Union’s Political and Security Committee [...]

The HR/EUSR Valentin Inzko met with Slovenian Prime Minister Borut Pahor today in Ljubljana. During the meeting, the HR/EUSR informed Prime Minister Pahor about the political situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the conclusions of the latest meeting of the Peace Implementation Council Steering Board in Sarajevo.

Obstacles on Bosnia and Herzegovina’s path to Europe can be removed before October, the High Representative and EU Special Representative told a conference today.

Bosnia and Herzegovina’s progress towards NATO and the European Union is at a standstill, the High Representative and EU Special Representative Valentin Inzko said today, noting that “it has been stopped by political leaders who have failed to enact or implement reforms to which they previously committed themselves.”