OHR Press Releases

Following the failure of the first attempt to change the constitution, and now facing slow progress on police restructuring, Bosnia and Herzegovina must demonstrate that it has the ability to continue on the reform path to Europe, the High Representative, Christian Schwarz-Schilling, told a conference of civil society activists on Saturday.

Following his meeting in Banja Luka on 3 May with RS Prime Minister Dodik, during which the case of Colonel Avdo Palić was discussed, Senior Deputy High Representative Peter Bas-Backer has written to the prime minister reiterating that the RS Government must act without delay on fulfilling the mandate of the RS Government Commission on Pali [...]

The High Representative, Christian Schwarz-Schilling, has appointed Malcolm Simmons as International Judge to Section I (War Crimes) and Section II (Organised Crime, Economic Crime and Corruption) of the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

The EU Special Representative and High Representative (EUSR/HR) in BiH, Christian Schwarz-Schilling, will tomorrow take part in a meeting of EU Interior Ministers in Vienna. The meeting, which will address the role of internal security in relations between the EU and its neighbours, will cover illegal immigration, trafficking, terrorism and organis [...]

The OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Office of the High Representative in Bosnia and Herzegovina (OHR)/ European Union Special Representative (EUSR) take note of the Ministry of Civil Affairs’ submission of the Draft Law on Higher Education to the Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) Council of Ministers for consideration on 27 April 2006. [...]

The High Representative / EU Special Representative Christian Schwarz-Schilling today expressed his profound disappointment that the proposed constitutional amendments were not adopted by the BiH House of Representatives on Wednesday.

The High Representative, Christian Schwarz-Schilling, ahead of the continuation of the BiH House of Representatives session today said that “the need to modify the BiH constitution, to equip the country for the demands of EU integration and to better serve the citizens is one that will not go away: the choice the BiH Parliamentarians face is to mov [...]

The High Representative, Christian Schwarz-Schilling, has appointed Marie Tuma as International Judge in Section I for War Crimes of the Criminal and Appellate Divisions and in Section II for Organised Crime, Economic Crime and Corruption of the Criminal and Appellate Divisions of the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

The FBiH House of Representatives will tomorrow discuss the draft FBiH Law on Pardon, during which they will have the opportunity to make changes to the draft law.

The OHR today received the report and annexes from the RS’s ‘Palic Commission’ as requested by the HR on January 19. The Human Rights Commission in their final ruling of 16 January 2006 found that the RS authorities have failed to provide adequate details to establish the facts of the disappearance of Colonel Avdo Palić after the fall of Žepa. [...]