OHR Press Releases

It is fitting that the official launch of Stabilisation and Association negotiations between BiH and the European Commission should fall on the Day of BiH Statehood. Stabilisation and Association process is a decisive step forward in creating a viable state that delivers proper services to its citizens.

The High Representative, Paddy Ashdown, has appointed David L. Upcher as international prosecutor and as Deputy Chief Prosecutor and Head of the Special Department for Organised Crime, Economic Crime and Corruption of the Prosecutor’s Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The appointment is for two years from the date of taking up official duties, whic [...]

As it draws closer to the European Union, Bosnia and Herzegovina will have to deal with reforms – on a daily basis – that touch on constitutional questions, the High Representative, Paddy Ashdown, said in Washington today. The High Representative was speaking at a conference organized by the US Institute for Peace to mark the tenth anniversary of t [...]

OHR welcomes today's Decision by EU Foreign Ministers to authorise the Commission to open

Bosnia and Herzegovina has been able to move from the political and economic collapse of a decade ago to the beginning of EU accession talks in coming days because the Dayton Agreement combined “enough firmness to maintain peace, with enough flexibility to enable reform,” the High Representative, Paddy Ashdown said today at an international confere [...]

OHR welcomes today's establishment of the Higher Education Law Task Force and a Working Group to work under the chairmanship of Prime Minister Terzic with the urgent task of producing the text of a state-level Higher Education Law fully in line with the Bologna Process and with Bosnia and Herzegovina's other international obligations in the area of [...]

The High Representative, Paddy Ashdown, is holding a series of meetings in Washington this week, including his final consultations with US State Department officials in his capacity as High Representative.

The High Representative, Paddy Ashdown, this morning met with the ICTY's Chief Prosecutor, Carla del Ponte, in The Hague. Following the meeting, the High Representative, pointing to the increased cooperation with the Tribunal seen in the past 11 months, noted that the International Community is now watching closely to see that this process continue [...]

As economic reforms begin to deliver results, Bosnia and Herzegovina’s main economic indices are at last moving in the right direction. Inflation is negligible, exports are rising faster than imports, investment is up, industrial production is up; GDP growth this year is projected to be the fastest in Southeast Europe.