OHR Press Releases

The High Representative and EU Special Representative, Valentin Inzko met today in Sarajevo with the Italian State Secretary for Foreign Affairs, Alfredo Mantica, members of the Italian Foreign Ministry and Italian Ambassador to BiH, Raimondo De Cardona. HR/EUSR Inzko and the Italian delegation have discussed the current political situation in BiH, [...]

The scale of job losses and the decline in living standards experienced in 2009 represent the most serious and pressing challenge facing Bosnia and Herzegovina, High Representative and EU Special Representative Valentin Inzko said today.

High Representative and EU Special Representative Valentin Inzko met with Finnish Foreign Minister Alexander Stubb in Sarajevo today. The meeting was an opportunity to discuss the current political situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina, in particular the slow pace of reforms and the lack of political will that is preventing the country from moving fo [...]

As part of a programme underway since March 2005, the High Representative, Valentin Inzko, has issued three Decisions affecting the bans on participation in the public life of Bosnia and Herzegovina placed on three individuals.

Attending today’s ceremony at which Boško Šiljegović was appointed the first Military Commissioner of the BiH Parliamentary Assembly, Principal Deputy High Representative and Brčko Supervisor, Dr. Raffi Gregorian said Commissioner Šiljegović’s appointment was "good news for both the Parliamentary Assembly and the Armed Forces of Bosn [...]

The BiH authorities have demonstrated that they can reach a consensus that will help create jobs, High Representative and EU Special Representative Valentin Inzko said today during a meeting with European Bank for Reconstruction and Development Vice President Varel Freeman,commenting the agreement signed by the BiH authorities and the EBRD yesterda [...]

The general elections in Bosnia and Herzegovina this year must be seen as an opportunity and not a threat for the EU integration process, High Representative and EU Special Representative Valentin Inzko told a delegation of EU parliamentarians in Sarajevo today. “To achieve this, political parties need to focus their campaign on the EU agenda inste [...]

The HR/EUSR Valentin Inzko has today in Berlin addressed the European Integration Committee of the German Bundestag and informed the members of the Committee about the current political situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina. He emphasized that the goal of the international community to make BiH a peaceful, viable state on the course for European inte [...]

Today in Brussels the High Representative and EU Special Representative, Valentin Inzko, addressed the Western Balkans Working Group of the Foreign Affairs Committee in the European Parliament. Inzko presented the current political situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) and urged that current challenges in BiH be taken very seriously. The EU, in [...]

Bosnia and Herzegovina has a pool of talent that can help resolve the political and economic crisis, High Representative and EU Special Representative Valentin Inzko said yesterday in Tuzla.