OHR Press Releases

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.

A decade after the end of the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina the Dayton peace agreement has brought BiH to the gateway to the Stabilisation and Association Process and to Partnership for Peace, "but are reaching the end of the utility of the Dayton construct; the end of the phase where the in-built flexibilities of Dayton are sufficient to cope with [...]

The High Representative, Paddy Ashdown, today extended his congratulations to the Chairman of the BiH Council of Ministers, Adnan Terzic, the Director of the Directorate for European Integration, Osman Topcagic, and other leaders in BiH, following the decision by the European Union Foreign Ministers, meeting in Brussels, to accept the European Comm [...]

The High Representative, Paddy Ashdown, has today issued Decisions lifting the prohibition banning 23 individuals from participating in public and political life. (The names of those affected are listed in an annex to this press release.)

As indicated at the occasion on annulling a renaming of Sarajevo International Airport The High Representative, Paddy Ashdown, today issued a Decision laying out the formal legal process that must be followed in the case of renaming pubic facilities in BiH that have an international or inter-Entity character.

The High Representative, Paddy Ashdown, today issued a Decision removing RS Education and Culture Minister Milovan Pecelj from his post. The Minister has been removed because for a whole year he has failed to discharge his ministerial responsibility to implement the High Representative's Decision of 30 June 2004 removing Radomir Lukic from his pos [...]

Noting that the SDS-led government in Republika Srpksa has made significant progress this year regarding ICTY cooperation, and pointing to measures undertaken by the SDS party to establish monitoring mechanisms to control the party’s funding, the High Representative today decided to partially lift the freeze on public funds being paid to the SDS. [...]

The Office of the High Representative and the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina note with concern the failure of Una Sana Canton authorities to provide fiscal guidelines and instructions so that municipal officials can start to plan their 2006 budgets.