OHR Press Releases

03/26/2004

Brcko Supervisor Amends Brcko District Statute
Brcko Supervisor Susan R. Johnson today issued a Supervisory Order making technical amendments to the Statute of the Brcko District of Bosnia and Herzegovina, following consultations with councilors of the Interim Assembly of the Brcko District, members of the Interim Government of the Brcko District and the Brcko District Police.
03/24/2004

Implementation of property laws completed in the unified City of Mostar
Property Law Implementation Plan (PLIP) Agencies – OSCE, OHR and UNHCR – congratulate the housing authorities in Mostar for having finalized property law implementation in their re-gions. Prior to their abolition on 15 March, all six former Municipalities and the Central Zone were verified as having substantially completed their caseload.
03/23/2004

Joint report suggests property law implementation in BiH nears completion
The latest statistics on property law implementation in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), which show that it is nearing its completion, were presented today in Sarajevo. The Property Law Implementation agencies, which include the Office of the High Representative, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Her [...]
03/22/2004

High Representative Visits Kuwait
The High Representative, Paddy Ashdown, is in Kuwait on the second day of a two day visit. The High Representative’s aim is to encourage donations to the Foundation of Srebrenica-Potocari Memorial and Cemetery, and to promote BiH as an investment location.
03/22/2004

Politicisation of Education Reform Damages BiH’s EU Prospects
The High Representative, Paddy Ashdown, the Head of the OSCE Mission to BiH Robert Beecroft and the Council of Europe’s (CoE) Special Representative in BiH, Sonja Moser-Starrach today restated that turning administrative and technical reforms in Primary and Secondary schools in the FBiH into political and ethnic issues, will damage BiH’s prospects [...]
03/17/2004

OHR and EC Call on CoM to Ensure that PBS Law Honours Prime Ministers’ Agreement
The draft PBS Law prepared by BiH Minister for Transport and Communications Branko Dokic will not satisfy the criteria laid out in the European Commission’s Feasibility Study, the High Representative and EU Special Representative, Paddy Ashdown, and the Head of the EC Delegation in BiH, Michael Humphreys, told BiH ministers today. The BiH represent [...]
03/15/2004

OHR Questions SBS Appointment
The Office of the High Representative (OHR) has written to the members of Bosnia and Herzegovina’s joint Presidency to question their appointment of Relja Kovac as Director of the State Border Service (SBS). In a letter sent to the Presidency today the OHR points out that Mr. Kovac’s appointment ignores applicable laws and bylaws, and therefore c [...]
03/12/2004

BiH Failing to Meet Requirements for PfP
High Representative Paddy Ashdown, COMSFOR Virgil Packett, OSCE Head of Mission Robert Beecroft, and the Chairman of the Defence Reform Commission, James Locher have written a joint letter to the members of the BiH Presidency, the Chairman of the Council of Ministers, Adnan Terzic, Foreign Minister Mladen Ivanic and Minister for Security Barisa Col [...]
03/10/2004

RS Authorities Responsible For The Work Of Their Srebrenica Commission
The High Representative, Paddy Ashdown, in conversation today with RS President, Dragan Cavic, and Prime Minister,Dragan Mikerevic underlined that he “will hold them personally responsible for ensuring the RS’s Srebrenica Commission is not yet another whitewash, but that it fulfils its mandate as set out by the Human Rights Chamber.” The HRC, in it [...]