OHR Press Releases

Principal Deputy High Representative Raffi Gregorian met today with Mr. Mujo Kafedzic, Mr. Milenko Andjelic and Mr. Milan Acic who represent officers who retired from the former Jugoslav National Army (JNA) before 1992.

The High Representative and EU Special Representative, Miroslav Lajčák, met yesterday with Executive Secretary of the UN Economic Commission for Europe, Marek Belka, to discuss the current political and economic situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Both HR/EUSR Lajčák and Secretary Belka reaffirmed importance of BiH's full commitment to f [...]

High Representative and EU special representative to BiH Miroslav Lajčák once again draws attention to the pointlessness and harmfulness of the nationalist and anti-state rhetoric and thus to the neglecting of BiH’s European road. European integration must be above the daily politics. Recent appearances of the RS prime minister Milorad Dodik i [...]

Acting in coordination the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and BiH security sector agencies, the High Representative, Miroslav Lajčák, today ordered all BiH law enforcement agencies to seize the travel documents of 16 individuals linked to ICTY indictee Stojan Zupljanin.

The FBiH House of Representatives Commission for Election and Appointment of judges to the BiH Constitutional Court will meet today to propose one out of thirteen possible candidates to the BiH Constitutional Court. The only constitutional requirements for candidates under the constitution are BiH citizenship and ‘high moral standing’.

The High Representative and EU Special Representative, Miroslav Lajčák, met today with Director of the Fourth European Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, Alexander Alekseyev, to discuss the current political situation and progress on implementation of the February Peace Implementation Council conclusions. [...]

The international community’s strategic goal in Bosnia and Herzegovina is to see the country accede to both NATO and the EU as soon as possible. Quick progress is therefore needed on meeting the five objectives and two conditions identified by the Peace Implementation Council in February 2008, the High Representative and EU Special Representative M [...]

Significant numbers of BiH citizens tolerate – rather than embrace – the idea of BiH statehood, the High Representative and EU Special Representative, Miroslav Lajčák, told an audience of diplomats and Southeast Europe specialists in Washington today.

The HR/EUSR, Miroslav Lajčák, met with British Foreign Secretary, David Miliband in New York today to brief the Foreign Secretary on the current political situation in BiH.