OHR Press Releases

Bosnia and Herzegovina faces disaster if the authorities do not act quickly and systematically to improve the business environment and attract investment, High Representative Paddy Ashdown told an audience of international and domestic investors in Sarajevo today. “I do not believe this country will return to ethnic conflict, but I would not like [...]

Senior Deputy High Representative Gerhard Enver Schrömbgens today presented the first copy of the BiH Education Directory to the Principal of the Teachers' School (Uciteljska skola) in Sarajevo, Muhamed Ganibegovic. Deputy Head of the OSCE Mission in BiH Ambassador Henry Zipper de Fabiani, and the Assistant of the Education Minister of the Federati [...]

The running of Elektroprivreda Sarajevo has been “infused with the second-rate practices that have prevented companies in BiH - especially large publicly-owned companies - from delivering services to citizens in an efficient and competitive way,” High Representative Paddy Ashdown told journalists in Sarajevo on Thursday. The High Representative wa [...]

“I am shocked at the murder of Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic, whom I knew personally, and extend my condolences to his family, and to the people of Serbia” said High Representative, Paddy Ashdown this afternoon. Praising Zoran Djindjic’s role the High Representative said “Zoran Djindjic will go down in history as one of the leaders who removed Slo [...]

The resolution of property claims filed with municipal housing offices throughout the country stands at 74% as of the end of January, according to the Property Law Implementation statistics, announced today by the PLIP agencies (OHR, UNHCR, OSCE, CRPC).

The High Representative, Paddy Ashdown, on Friday launched a campaign to undermine the support network that has allowed indicted war criminal Radovan Karadzic to evade arrest for the last seven years.

Principal Deputy High Representative, Donald Hays, held a meeting today in Banja Luka with the Director of the RS Tax Administration, Milica Bisic, Director of the RS Banking Agency, Dusanka Novakovic and Directors of the leading banks in Republika Srpska: Milenko Vracar-Nova Banjalucka Bank, Slavica Milikic- K.B. Hypo Bank, Ljiljana Todorovic- Bob [...]

The Special Auditor’s report into Elektroprivreda HZHB Mostar shows that "the ordinary citizens and small businesses of Herzegovina who paid their electricity bills were in fact providing free electricity and kick-backs to the HDZ’s privileged elite," High Representative Paddy Ashdown told journalists today. "This privileged elite got illegal hook- [...]

The Agencies engaged in the Property Law Implementation Plan (OHR, UNHCR, OSCE, CRPC) would like to clarify that completion of Property Law implementation does not equal completion of Annex 7. While property law implementation is the fundamental first step it is only one among many of the elements underpinning sustainable return.