OHR Press Releases

High Representative and EU Special Representative (HR/EUSR) Christian Schwarz-Schilling met today at Intelligence-Security Agency (OSA) headquarters in Sarajevo with Director-General Almir Dzuvo, Deputy Director Risto Zaric and Inspector General Ivan Cosic.

The High Representative and EU Special Representative, Christian Schwarz-Schilling, on Monday attended the opening session of the new BiH House of Representatives to express his support for the work of the new Parliament.

Constitutional reform is critical to the political and economic future of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the High Representative and Special Representative, Christian Schwarz-Schilling, told an international conference in Berlin on Friday evening.

Bosnia and Herzegovina may miss out on an invitation to join the Partnership-for-Peace programme at NATO’s forthcoming Summit because of Republika Srpska’s failure to cooperate with the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague, the High Representative and EU Special Representative, Christian Schwarz-Schilling, wrote in [...]

Today, Principal Deputy High Representative Larry Butler met with FBiH Finance Minster Dragan Vrankic at the OHR and discussed among other things the settlement of Frozen Foreign Currency Accounts.

Prime Minister Milorad Dodik will be undermining Republika Srpska’s capacity to combat crime, if he sees through his threat to cut judicial salaries in Republika Srpska, the High Representative and EU Special Representative, Christian Schwarz-Schilling said today.

When politicians make threats against the judiciary, citizens must understand that they are undermining civil rights and driving away the investment that is needed to create jobs, the High Representative and EU Special Representative, Christian Schwarz-Schilling, wrote in his weekly newspaper column.

Deputy High Representative and Head of OHR Banja Luka Ms Clarisse Pasztory congratulated the new RS President, Milan Jelic, and Vice Presidents, Davor Cordas and Adil Osmanovic, who were sworn in at today’s inaugural session of the RS National Assembly, and wished them well.

Bosnia and Herzegovina’s religious leaders will exert a powerful and constructive influence on society when they see themselves as leaders of people and not of particular people, the Senior Deputy High Representative, Peter Bas-Backer, told a conference on political-religious dialogue in Bratislava today.

The events of the past six months have demonstrated the scale of the challenge involved in moving to local ownership in Bosnia and Herzegovina but the international community should remain committed to this policy, High Representative and EU Special Representative, Christian Schwarz-Schillingsaid to the UN Security Council (UNSC) today.