OHR Press Releases
03/28/2007
Schwarz-Schilling urges a resolution of the status of BiH citizens holding dual citizenship
The High Representative and EU Special Representative, Christian Schwarz-Schilling, on Tuesday urged the BiH authorities to remove obstacles preventing the citizens of Bosnia and Herzegovina from holding dual citizenship.
03/28/2007
Schwarz-Schilling: Much Can Be Done Now To Change Srebrenica
The High Representative and EU Special Representative, Christian Schwarz-Schilling, will tomorrow meet with the leaders of the SBiH, the SDA and the SDP, Haris Silajdzic, Sulejman Tihic and Zlatko Lagumdzija. The HR-EUSR’s aim is to focus efforts on achieving tangible results in improving the lives of all those who live in Srebrenica.
03/23/2007
High Representative Issues Order Concerning Implementation of Constitutional Court Decision AP-953/05
The High Representative, Christian Schwarz-Schilling, issued today an Order concerning implementation of the Decision of the Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina in the appeal of Milorad Bilbija and others. This Order comes into immediate effect.
03/23/2007
Brcko Supervisor issues the Supervisory Order on urban planning
Brcko Supervisor Dr Raffi Gregorian has recently been investigating a corruption scandal in the District’s urban planning regime. The scandal was brought to his attention by an obvious fraud perpetrated when a fictitious applicant sought the annulment by the Government Appellate Commission of a series of urban approvals issued upon the instruction [...]
03/23/2007
Schwarz-Schilling: Europe’s Doors are Open
Twelve years after the end of the conflict in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the peoples of this country face many of the same challenges faced by citizens of Western Europe in 1957, when they had just embarked on what was to be the longest and steepest development curve in economic history, the High Representative and EU Special Representative, Christian [...]
03/23/2007
Statement: High Representative To Suspend FBiH Government Appointment Decision
The OHR is concerned that there has been an attempt to manipulate the vetting process. This manipulation is even more evident given the fact that the OHR had informed FBiH leaders that it was ready to announce the results of the vetting process as early as tomorrow.
03/19/2007
Without Full ICTY Co-operation Bans Will Not Be Lifted Soon
“There will be no change of policy when it comes to requiring full co-operation with the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY),” said the OHR’s Principal Deputy High Representative and Acting High Representative, Raffi Gregorian today. “Where fugitive indictees can not be found the OHR and other members of the Internation [...]
03/19/2007
OHR: Mostarians Need to Turn Around Fortunes of Mostar
The Office of the High Representative has noted the frustration at the lack of progress expressed by various political leaders in Mostar in recent days and is well aware of what has and what has not been achieved in the past year. However, it is up to Mostarians and their political leaders to turn around the fortunes of Mostar, not the internationa [...]
03/16/2007
HR/EUSR Schwarz-Schilling, Commissioner Rehn Discuss BiH SAA Prospects
High Representative and EU Special Representative, Christian Schwarz-Schilling, met with the European Commissioner for Enlargement, Olli Rehn, this morning in Sarajevo to discuss the current political situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the country’s prospects of signing a Stabilisation and Association Agreement with the European Union.
03/16/2007
Schwarz-Schilling: Compromise and Reform or Throw Away Golden Opportunity
The choice facing Bosnia and Herzegovina’s leaders is stark, the High Representative and EU Special Representative, Christian Schwarz-Schilling, wrote in his weekly newspaper column. Compromise, reform and integrate in the European mainstream – or throw away a golden opportunity.