OHR Press Releases

The High Representative, Paddy Ashdown, today sent a letter to BiH Presidency Member Borislav Paravac and RS Finance Minister Svetlana Cenic following up on earlier correspondence regarding the violation of the High Representative’s Decision of 30 June 2004. This Decision blocked all SDS bank accounts and required any financial transaction by the S [...]

The High Representative, Paddy Ashdown, today announced a series of measures that he is taking in response to the violation of a High Representative’s Decision of 30 June 2004, blocking all SDS bank accounts and requiring any financial transaction in excess of 150 KM to be conducted through a single authorised bank account.

The High Representative today replied to RS Minister of Interior, Darko Matijasevic, giving him seven working days to reconsider his position. The High Representative reminded Minister Matijasevic that Ambassador Butler's request was made in accordance with the authority vested in the Office of the High Representative through the Dayton Peace Agree [...]

The High Representative, Paddy Ashdown, has appointed Roland Antonius Theodora Mathieu Dekkers to a two-year term, effective immediately, as an International Judge to Section I for War Crimes of the Criminal and Appellate Divisions and to Section II for Organised Crime, Economic Crime and Corruption of the Criminal and Appellate Divisions of the Co [...]

Senior Deputy High Representative (SDHR) Martin Ney met today in Sarajevo with Smail Cekic, the Head of the Srebrenica Working Group's Investigative Sub Group. Discussion focused on the remaining information that the Srebrenica Working Group needs to receive from the RS Ministries of Interior and Defence before the Working Group's task can be judg [...]

Senior Deputy High Representative Martin Ney held a meeting today in Sarajevo with RS Prime Minister Pero Bukejlovic, RS Interior Ministers Darko Matijasevic, RS Defence Minister Milovan Stankovic and the Chair of the RS Government's Srebrenica Working Group Jovan Spajic. Ambassador Ney reminded those present that the Srebrenica Working Group [...]

In a letter sent to RS Interior Minister Darko Matijasevic this weekend, Principle Deputy High Representative Lawrence Butler noted with concern that the Minister has publicly mixed politics with policing.

The High Representative, Paddy Ashdown, responded today to a letter sent by BiH Presidency Member Borislav Paravac on 15 September 2005, explaining the circumstances in which Mr Paravac violated the High Representatives Decision of 30 June 2004, which blocked all SDS bank accounts, and required any financial transaction by the SDS in excess of 150 [...]

The OSCE Mission to BiH and OHR are concerned that no solution has been found yet for students in Central Bosnia that would ensure their uninterrupted education in the Canton’s schools.

"Striking the PBS System Law from the agenda of the BiH House of Peoples today further delays the introduction of this important legislation and creates an additional obstacle in the reform process of BiH on the way to Europe," Senior Deputy High Representative Martin Ney said today, commenting on the HoP's decision not to discuss this Law until th [...]