OHR Press Releases

The mayors of Zepce and Gornji Vakuf-Uskoplje municipalities were informed yesterday of the High Representative’s Decision bringing an end the International Community supervisory regimes in their municipalities. The High Representative noted that OHR has endeavoured over the past several years to facilitate the integration and smooth functioning [...]

Addressing the first session of the Defence Reform Commission under its new mandate today, the High Representative, Paddy Ashdown, welcomed the continuation of Defence Reform in BiH, noting that the DRC’s achievements to date have already made BiH a credible candidate for NATO’s Partnership for Peace, and that the success of this approach "has serv [...]

"I welcome the transfer by the authorities of Republika Srpska of ICTY indictee Savo Todovic. Nine years after Dayton Peace Agreement I commend RS authorities on making this significant step forward. Mr. Todovic stands accused of grave crimes, for which he must now answer before the Tribunal.

The High Representative, Paddy Ashdown, today extended by one year the mandate of Mr. Joly Dixon as the first Chairman of the Governing Board of the Indirect Taxation. Mr. Joly Dixon shall continue to operate as Chairman under the same conditions as up to now.

The OHR welcomes the BiH House of Representative’s adoption, on 12 January, of the VAT law, at a single 17 percent rate. Securing parliamentary support for this legislation has been a demanding task, which the BiH Government has successfully completed through a combination of determination and patience. This shows that the business of government is [...]

The international organizations that participate in the regular Tuesday morning press conferences are pleased to announce that from Tuesday 11 January 2005 the regular IC press conferences in Sarajevo will be held in the main conference room of the OHR

The High Representative, Paddy Ashdown, met today with acting RS Prime Minister Dragan Mikerevic. The High Representative expressed concern that the RS Government has to date taken no action to form a group which will analyse the documentation produced by the Srebrenica Commission and to identify all officials , with empasis still in the employmen [...]

In his meeting today with Serbian President Boris Tadic, the High Representative, Paddy Ashdown, noted that in the tenth year since Dayton, not a single Hague indictee has been arrested by the RS authorities. The High Representative underlined the fact that that this is a fundemental part of the agreement and must be adhered to. Nothing is a substi [...]

The High Representative, Paddy Ashdown, has today extended the mandate of the Defence Reform Commission (DRC) to 31 December 2005. On 16 December this year the High Representative announced that the BiH DRC will oversee the next stage of Defence reform. The Commission’s role will be to examine and propose the legal and institutional measures neces [...]