OHR Press Releases

The High Representative, Paddy Ashdown, on Friday made it clear that although the Commission charged with producing a statute for the city of Mostar has failed to reach agreemant on a workable draft, a permanent settlement that protects and advances the interests of all Mostar's citizens must be found. Since municipal elections will be held next ye [...]

Looting of apartments and houses remains a serious problem throughout Bosnia and Herzegovina. The PLIP agencies (OHR, UNHCR, OSCE and CRPC) in cooperation with ministries of interior are launching a public-information campaign aimed at curbing this problem. Because of looting, many returnees have had to pay for additional repairs or wait for extra [...]

Deputy High Representative and Head of OHR (S), Ambassador Jean-Pierre Bercot, is strongly disappointed with the fact that the City Council of Mostar didn't have enough responsibility and political wisdom at its last session to make some concrete decisive steps in the unification of Mostar. Namely, at this session of the City Council precondition [...]

Senior Deputy High Representative Bernard Fassier and OSCE Acting Head of Mission Victor Tkachenko yesterday sent a letter to the RS President, the RS Prime Minister and the Speaker of the RSNA underlining the responsibility of the Republika Srpska (RS) under the BiH Constitution to comply with the Decisions of the Human Rights Chamber (HRC).

The Agencies monitoring Property Law Implementation in BiH wish to announce the PLIP statistics for the month of June 2003. At the end of June, 189,994 claims out of 226,057 had been resolved by the housing authorities. This corresponds to 84 percent of the overall number of property claims. Since the beginning of 2003 there has been a steady incr [...]

This morning the High Representative, Paddy Ashdown signed administrative Decisions freezing all the bank accounts in BiH of 14 people are helping indicted war criminals evade arrest.

The PLIP agencies (OHR, UNHCR, OSCE and CRPC) wish to announce that the Property Law Implementation has reached 8 per cent as of the end of May 2003 which is an increase of 2 per cent throughout Bosnia and Herzegovina. In the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, 85 per cent of claims have been resolved; in Republika Srpska the implementation of p [...]

Multiple occupants must leave the property they are illegally occupying or face heavy fines. All multiple occupants, who do not voluntarily vacate the property they occupy, within the 15 days prescribed by the decision issued by the housing officials, can be fined between 250 to 5,000 KM. Upon the expiration of the 15 days deadline, the housing aut [...]