OHR Press Releases

The High Representative and EU Special Representative, Christian Schwarz-Schilling, today told returnees in Drvar that mechanisms developed to help particular groups of returnees could and would be transplanted elsewhere for the benefit of all and that history was on their side.

The OHR’s Principal Deputy High Representative (PDHR), Raffi Gregorian met today in Sarajevo with the President of the Initiative Board for the Special Status for Srebrenica, Camil Durakovic.

The Republika Srpska National Assembly’s Constitutional and Legal Committee is tomorrow due to discuss the draft Law on Higher Education that is currently in parliamentary procedure at state level. Having reviewed the legislation, the Office of the High Representative is satisfied that, as it stands, there is no requirement in the Law to transfer c [...]

The High Representative and EU Special Representative, Christian Schwarz-Schilling, is visiting Bosanska Krupa and Bihac tomorrow and Drvar the day after.

Srebrenica is a special case and must remain at the top of the RS Government’s agenda, the High Representative and EU Special Representative, Christian Schwarz-Schilling, wrote in an article that appeared in Euroblic today.

The survivors of Srebrenica are right to demand justice, and they are right to demand that State and Entity authorities fulfil their commitments to help them improve their living conditions, the High Representative and EU Special Representative, Christian Schwarz-Schilling wrote in his weekly newspaper column, adding that the international communit [...]

The High Representative and EU Special Representative, Christian Schwarz-Schilling, met today for the first time with Nedzad Brankovic in his new position as Prime Minister of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina (FBiH).

The High Representative and EU Special Representative, Christian Schwarz-Schilling, met today in Sarajevo with representatives of four survivors associations from the Srebrenica and Podrinje area.

The Principal Deputy High Representative, Raffi Gregorian, will travel to Srebrenica tomorrow to meet with representatives of returnee associations and the town’s municipal authorities. His visit will be an opportunity to discuss a series of measures that will help create a sustainable return process and better living conditions in the area.

The High Representative, Christian Schwarz-Schilling, today amended various provisions of the Criminal Procedure Code to close a series of loopholes in relation to cases involving individuals transferred to Bosnia and Herzegovina from the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague.