OHR Press Releases
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 [...]
03/10/2004
Political Leaders Commit to Creating Environment for Jobs
The Principal Deputy High Representative, Donald Hays, Federation Prime Minister Ahmet Hadzipasic, RS Prime Minister Dragan Mikerevic and Brcko Mayor Branko Damjanac met in Jajce today to discuss the current status of the Bulldozer Process. In addition to the 50 reforms enacted under Phase I, 50 new reforms have now been formulated under Phase II a [...]
03/10/2004
Vacancy in the Brcko District Interim Assembly
In order to restore the Brcko District Interim Assembly to its full composition of 29 councilors, and to ensure that the diversity of people in the District is adequately represented, the Supervisor of Brcko, Susan R. Johnson, invited political parties to submit for consideration a list of no more than three diverse and suitably qualified candidate [...]
03/09/2004
Brcko District Celebrates Fourth Anniversary
Brcko District Supervisor Susan R. Johnson today welcomed to the OHR Brcko Final Award Office more than 40 distinguished visitors, including senior BiH officials, foreign ambassadors to BiH, and representatives of the International Community, who were in Brcko to mark the fourth anniversary of the establishment of the Brcko District of Bosnia and H [...]
03/05/2004
OHR, World Bank Meet With Federal Government, Parliamentarians And Union On Bankruptcy Law
The Office of the High Representative (OHR) and the World Bank Country Office in Bosnia and Herzegovina welcome the continued progress achieved at the meeting with representatives of the BiH Federation Government, Parliament and BiH Trade Union, on the expected adoption of amendments to the federal bankruptcy law. Today’s meeting resulted in constr [...]
03/03/2004
High Representative Warns UN About Risks to Reform in BiH
The High Representative, Paddy Ashdown addressed the UN Security Council in New York on Wednesday, following talks on Tuesday with UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan and UN Under Secretary for Peace Keeping Operations Jean Marie Guehenno.
03/01/2004
Ashdown Briefs BiH Authorities on EU’s Thinking on EUFOR
The High Representative and European Union Special Representative in BiH, Paddy Ashdown, yesterday forwarded to the BiH Presidency the report that EU High Representative Javier Solana presented on 23 February to the EU Foreign Affairs ministers on the possible EU deployment in Bosnia-Herzegovina.
02/27/2004
Don’t ask us to compromise with BiH’s European future
Dnevni Avaz has asked the OHR to respond to a number of demands. These have varied from day to day, but the most comprehensive list was published in Dnevni Avaz on 24 and 25 February 2004. Many of these demands appear to be based on a misunderstanding of the law, or of normal practice elsewhere in Europe, or in some cases, on errors of fact. The [...]
02/25/2004
High Representative Acts to End Abuse of Street Names in Mostar
The High Representative, Paddy Ashdown, today issued a Decision imposing amoratorium on changing the names of streets, squares, bridges and all such public places by any City-Municipality in the City of Mostar and specifically banning any related activity that could be viewed as a provocation likely to undermine the reorganization of Mostar.
02/24/2004
“Politicisation of Federation Schools Must End”
The High Representative met with all the cantonal education ministers today in the OHR to call on them to end the politicisation of education which has done so much damage to the children of BiH, and to implement education reform.
At a meeting in the OHR with with Ministers Stipo Ivankovic (Canton 2), Nikola Lovrinovic (Canton 6), Jago Musa (Cant [...]