OHR Press Releases

The High Representative, Christian Schwarz-Schilling, yesterday amended provisions of the Criminal Procedure Code to extend the maximum duration of post-indictment detention from one year to three years for the most serious cases, including war crimes cases.

The High Representative, Christian Schwarz-Schilling, has called for penalties to be imposed on parliamentarians who bring democracy to a halt by walking out of the Parliamentary Assembly.

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) have been key drivers of economic recovery in other European countries, and the same can be true in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

EU Special Representative and High Representative, Christian Schwarz-Schilling, and, Secretary-General of the European Council, Javier Solana, discussed Bosnia and Herzegovina's progress towards Euro-Atlantic integration and plans for fundamental change in the international engagement in BiH today in Brussels. They agreed that for the transition t [...]

The High Representative and EU Special Representative, Christian Schwarz-Schilling, used his meeting with German Interior Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble this morning in Berlin to seek German support for changes to the European Union’s visa regime towards citizens of BiH.

High Representative Christian Schwarz-Schilling was awarded the Manfred Wörner medal today in Berlin. This award, which is given for outstanding contribution to European security once a year by the German Defence Ministry, is named after the late NATO Secretary General who, as Germany’s Defence Minister, was also a colleague of Dr Schwarz-Schillin [...]

Bosnia and Herzegovina's clear strategic goal must be to implement reforms that will raise living standards and allow the country to integrate fully in European structures, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and High Representative Christian Schwarz-Schilling concluded at their meeting in Moscow today.

“There is an evident lack of respect for the BiH Parliament as an institution and BiH as a democratic state” the High Representative, Christian Schwarz-Schilling, said today in response to the continued boycott of the BiH House of Representatives by representatives from the Republika Srpska. “The State’s institutions must not be undermined”, he sai [...]

The Serbian Finance Minister Mladjan Dinkic is reported to have yesterday announced that the first official visit of the Serbian Government will be to Banja Luka, and that one of the topics for discussion will be a referendum on the status of Republika Srpska.