OHR Press Releases

The High Representative has appointed Robert G. Ulrich as an International Judge to the Special Panels for Organised Crime, Economic Crime and Corruption within both the Criminal Division and Appellate Division of the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

The High Representative, Paddy Ashdown, has appointed Kalman Kocsis as Supervisor for Intelligence Reform, to assist with the implementation of reforms that have been agreed in this sector. This appointment has been made in light of the model established by Jim Locher and Joly Dixon, who have assisted with, respectively, the implementation of defen [...]

Speaking during a visit today to the primary mass gravesite in Sandici, near Bratunac, where the FBiH Missing Persons Commission is conducting exhumations, the High Representative, Paddy Ashdown, said, “It is terrible to think of the suffering of those who died here. Nothing can diminish this loss and horror, but perhaps, at last, there is a change [...]

The High Representative, Paddy Ashdown, on Friday sent a letter to the European Union’s High Representative for Common Foreign and Security Policy, Dr Javier Solana, and NATO’s Secretary-General, Mr Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, enclosing and reviewing the RS Srebrenica Commission’s report, published on Friday.

The High Representative, Paddy Ashdown, today appointed Toby Robinson as Provisional Administrator for the Privredna Banka Srpska Sarajevo (PBSS). The RS Banking Agency had been unable to find a qualified individual prepared to succeed Mile Maksimovic as Provisional Administrator after he resigned following threats and a physical assault in Zvornik [...]

The High Representative, Paddy Ashdown, yesterday issued a Decision imposing a five-percent fine, with immediate effect, on the publicly provided funds allocated to the HDZ in Cantons Six and Eight for their continued refusal to harmonize their Primary and Secondary Education legislation with the State-level framework law introduced, with HDZ suppo [...]

The High Representative today appointed 16 members of Bosnia and Herzegovina’s High Judicial and Prosecutorial Council (HJPC). Nine of the 16 appointments have already served with the HJPCs. In a letter to Prime Minister Terzic the High Representative explained that he has made these appointments to ensure a “seamless transition to the newly estab [...]

A new MBA course to be offered by Sarajevo University will bring better business opportunities to BiH, the Principal Deputy High Representative Donald Hays said today. Ambassador Hays was speaking this morning at a ceremony at Sarajevo University to mark the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding between the Universities of Delaware and Sara [...]

The High Representative, Paddy Ashdown, on Friday extended his decision of 26 Mach suspending budget payments to the HDZ BiH indefinitely. The High Representative has no wish to maintain this suspension any longer than necessary but it remains within the power of the HDZ to unify the ‘two schools under one roof. This issue is one of creating condi [...]

The High Representative, Paddy Ashdown, on Wednesday warned that the failure of certain cantons to bring their primary and secondary school legislation into line with the State legislation represented a violation of the Rule of Law and indirectly, a challenge to the statehood of BiH itself.