OHR Press Releases

The High Representative, Paddy Ashdown, issued a Decision today deferring the establishment of the Intelligence and Security Agency until 1 June 2004. The High Representative acted in response to a request by Ambassador Kalman Kocsis, Chairman of the Expert Commission, which drafted the Intelligence and Security Agency, in order to avoid any vacuum [...]

The RS Government has delivered a Progress Report from the Srebrenica Commission to the High Representative, within the deadline set by the High Representative on 16 April. The High Representative required the Commission to include in this Progress Report information that was absent from its Interim Report, presented to the High Representative on [...]

The High Representative, Paddy Ashdown, on Monday issued a Decision imposing a five-percent fine on the funds allocated to the HDZ in Canton Six. This Decision will take effect on Friday 30 April if the authorities in Canton Six fail to implement the necessary administrative steps to merge the two-schools-under–one roof in the canton in accordanc [...]

The High Representative and the Head of the OSCE Mission to BiH issued the following statement on 24 April: “We have read the concerns of the Students Union of the Mostarsko Sveuciliste, and would like to give them this guarantee: their university will not be threatened by the education reforms now underway. Indeed, we are firmly convinced that t [...]

In response to a request by BiH Prime Minister Adnan Terzic, RS Prime Minister Dragan Mikerevic and FBiH Prime Minster Ahmet Hadzipasic the High Representative Paddy Ashdown yesterday amended BiH’s Civil Service Laws allowing Civil Servants to move from Entity to State Ministries.

In his speech to the presidents and prime ministers from Southeast Europe, meeting in Sarajevo today, the High Representative stressed that every element in the huge reform agenda – every law, every bilateral agreement and every institutional change – brings benefits to citizens.

Flooding and illegal logging can only be tackled effectively if all levels of government below the Entity level are included in planning and implementing solutions, Principal Deputy High Representative Donald Hays told Cantonal prime ministers at a meeting at the OHR today.

The Interim Report presented by the RS Srebrenica Commission to the High Representative on 15 April "highlights sustained and systematic obstruction and inaction by the Government of Republika Srpska, in particular the VRS, the RS MUP the RS Office for ICTY Liaison and the RS intelligence agency," the High Representative, Paddy Ashdown, said after [...]