OHR Press Releases

HR/EUSR Miroslav Lajčák today bode farewell to the outgoing commander of NATO Headquarters Sarajevo, Major General Richard Wightman, and met with his successor, Brigadier General Sabato Errico.

The High Representative and the EU Special Representative Miroslav Lajčák today met with Osman Topcagic who is currently the Director of the Directorate for European Integration and the appointed BiH Ambassador to the EU to discuss priorities and challenges that Bosnia and Herzegovina will face in the context of European integration process. [...]

The BiH authorities are very well aware of the requirements for the abolishment of the visa regime for citizens traveling to the European Union, EU Special Representative Miroslav Lajčák has reiterated.

The OHR and EUSR welcomes the unanimous adoption of the National War Crimes Strategy by the BiH Council of Ministers of within the prescribed deadline given by the Peace Implementation Council at its November 2008 meeting. The Strategy calls for completing the most complex and highest priority war crimes cases within seven years and other war crim [...]

The Office of the High Representatives today welcomed the speech made by SDA President Sulejman Tihic at the party’s new year’s press conference. It marks an attempt to break from dead-end policies that have too often been the hallmark of BiH politics, and instead focuses squarely on the future, while accepting that the responsible institutions mus [...]

The international community expects Bosnia and Herzegovina to accelerate reforms needed for EU integration in 2009, the High Representative and EU Special Representative Miroslav Lajčák told the Chair of the EP Delegation for relations with the countries of south-east Europe, Doris Pack, during a meeting in Sarajevo today.

The Working Group drafting the National War Crimes Strategy today adopted a final draft strategy.