OHR Press Releases

"It is not for OHR to comment statements made by the Russian Ambassador to the UN. In February, the PIC Steering Board, of which the Russian Federation is a full member, was unanimous in agreeing to approve transition only after BiH achieved five objectives and met two conditions.

“A year after the escape of Radovan Stankovic the official response has been far from satisfactory”, said OHR’s Principal Deputy High Representative Raffi Gregorian yesterday. “Stankovic remains at large and the authorities have yet to produce a thorough report identifying those who aided Stankovic’s flight, hold accountable those responsible, or [...]

Despite conflicting aspirations among major parties and an undertow of nationalism that undermines social, economic and political progress, Bosnia and Herzegovina is poised to take strategic steps forward, the High Representative and EU Special Representative, Miroslav Lajčák, said today in his address to the UN Security Council.

The High Representative urges the Constitutional Court to address the conflict created by the RS Frozen Foreign Currency legislation and the BiH Law on Frozen Foreign currency savings within the shortest possible deadline. Without a decision from this body there will be no legal certainty for frozen currency savers throughout Bosnia and Herzegovina [...]

High Representative and EU Special Representative Miroslav Lajčák today warned politicians in BiH not to use Srebrenica as a pre-electoral tool for scoring political points.

The HR/EUSR Miroslav Lajčák welcomed the decision of both houses of BiH Parliament to adopt changes of the BiH Election Law, thus enabling all former residents of Srebrenica to vote in this municipality in October 2008 elections, regardless of where they are currently registered.

"This is good news for Bosnia and Herzegovina," said the High Representative and EU Special Representative, Miroslav Lajčák. Only two weeks after adoption of the police reform legislation, the EU decided BiH has made adequate progress to sign the SAA as soon as possible and has called on the European Commission to launch a visa dialogue with B [...]

We have seen the open letters from RS PM Dodik and SDP President Zlatko Lagumdzija related to public broadcasting and the future of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The existence of BiH is internationally guaranteed and cannot be called into questioned by one or another political party or constituent people. To suggest otherwise through tiresome, irresponsi [...]