OHR Press Releases
05/28/2007
OHR Urges FBiH Parliament to Adopt the Proper Version of FBiH Law on Pardons
OHR urges FBiH Parliament to adopt the correct version of the Law on Pardons of FBiH at its Tuesday and Wednesday session, the version that would respect BiH's jurisdiction in criminal matters and which ensures transparency and public scrutiny over such extraordinary decisions of executive clemency. As there are two versions sent to Parliament, [...]
05/25/2007
Governing Coalition Must Ensure Reform
It is essential that the members of the BiH Council of Ministers appropriate for themselves maximum freedom of action within the work plans that they have drawn up and adopted, and that they minimize the constraints placed upon them by short-term party political calculations, the High Representative and EU Special Representative, Christian Schwarz- [...]
05/23/2007
Statement: HR Advises Parties To Take The Opportunity To Form HNC Government
The reactions from political parties responsible for the failure , as reported in today's media, to form the government in HNC underline one more time the shameful waste of time and betrayal of voter's confidence that created this situation in the first instance.
05/18/2007
Schwarz-Schilling: Lasting Peace Depends on Justice
Governments have severely misread their moral, political and internationally binding obligations if they think they can avoid cooperating with the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and get away with it, the High Representative and EU Special Representative, Christian Schwarz-Schilling, wrote in his weekly newspaper co [...]
05/16/2007
Schwarz-Schilling Urges United Nations to Establish UN Day of Srebrenica to Pay Respect to Genocide Victims and Families
The High Representative and EU Special Representative, Christian Schwarz-Schilling, urged the United Nations today to establish a UN Day of Srebrenica to mark the tragic events that occurred there in 1995 and to pay respect to the victims of genocide and their families in an address to the UN Security Council.
05/11/2007
Schwarz-Schilling Briefs European Union’s PSC; Meets Solana
The High Representative and EU Special Representative, Christian Schwarz-Schilling, addressed the Political and Security Committee (PSC) of the European Union in Brussels this morning and met with Javier Solana, the European Union’s High Representative for Common Foreign and Security Policy, and representatives of the European Commission this after [...]
05/11/2007
Miroslav Lajčák To Succeed Schwarz-Schilling As High Representative
The Peace Implementation Council Steering Board has decided to appoint Ambassador Miroslav Lajčák as the next High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina. The Office of the High Representative (OHR) will inform the Security Council of the United Nations and the Council of the European Union of this appointment.
05/11/2007
Schwarz-Schilling: Countries Cannot Simply Stand Still
This week, the leaders of Bosnia and Herzegovina received a wake-up call from European Commissioner Olli Rehn who told them in a letter to Prime Minister Nikola Spiric they were leading their country down the wrong road, the High Representative and EU Special Representative, Christian Schwarz-Schilling, wrote today in his weekly newspaper column.
05/10/2007
First Srebrenica Coordination Meeting Takes Place in OHR; Chair Appointed
A first high-level coordination meeting on Srebrenica took place today at the Office of the High Representative at which Ambassador Igor Davidovic was appointed chair of this body.
05/10/2007
Bennett: BiH Institutions Have to Start Emulating Pop Singers
Bosnia and Herzegovina has the social, political and economic capacity to succeed, if its leaders start displaying the same confidence and professional ability that is so evident among its professional musicians, OHR and EUSR Communications Director, Chris Bennett, wrote today in an newspaper article, highlighting the singing talent of Marija Sesti [...]