OHR Press Releases

The High Representative, Paddy Ashdown, today sent a letter to Radomir Zekic, the director, and the shareholders and tenants of the Battery Factory “AS” in Potocari near Srebrenica. In his letter, the High Representative reminds Mr. Zekic that the Decision transferring ownership of the Battery Factory to the Foundation of the Srebrenica-Potocari Me [...]

The next few days, even hours, will be crucial for BiH’s future. The eyes of Europe and the world are on BiH as its leaders decide whether to seize the opportunity to take the first historic steps into NATO and European security structures. Today all the EU Ambassadors are meeting the BiH Presidency to urge them not to miss this opportunity to p [...]

The High Representative, Paddy Ashdown, this week appointed Myron Greenberg, a judge of the State of Minnesota in the United States, and Bernard Pierre, a judge from Bordeaux, France, as international judges on the Special Panel for Organised Crime and the Special Panel for Economic Crime and Corruption, within the Criminal Division of the Court of [...]

The High Representative, Paddy Ashdown, and the Senior Deputy High Representative, Werner Wnendt, attended today the formal signing of a commitment by the top representatives of six parties represented in Mostar City Council. This commitment is to the Commission charged with finding a permanent solution for the restructuring of the City of Mostar a [...]

Reflecting the High Representative’s commitment to making the OHR more accessible to the BiH public, local-language versions of the OHR Web Page (www.ohr.int) have gone on-line today. The Office of the High Representative hopes that these new local-language versions will prove to be useful to citizens of Bosnia and Herzegovina and to all those who [...]

The PLIP Agencies (OHR, UNHCR, OSCE and CRPC) announced today the Property Law Implementation statistics for the month of July 2003. They noted an overall increase of two per cent in the Property Law Implementation rate, which stands at 86 per cent throughout BiH as of the end of July 2003.

The OHR and the OSCE Mission deplore the fact that politics have interfered with the right of all children to a depoliticised, high-quality and modern education system in every part of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Efforts by local political reactionaries to prevent almost 300 Croat children from attending school in Novi Seher in Maglaj are a direct chal [...]

The High Representative, Paddy Ashdown, in line with BiH Law on Monday appointed four new members to the Bosnia and Herzegovina, Federation of BiH and Republika Srpska High Judicial and Prosecutorial Councils (HJPC). These appointments are in line with existing BiH and Entity Legislation filling vacancies that have arisen in the BiH and Entity HJP [...]

The OHR welcomes the Federation Government’s extension of the application period for the Head of the Federation Civil Service Agency. Getting the Civil Service Agency up and running is essential because this agency will lead a systematic overhaul of, and improvement in, the services that are offered to Federation residents across the whole range of [...]