OHR Press Releases

The International Community in BiH are “united behind a common agenda: establishing the rule of law to crack down on crime and corruption, reforming the economy to generate jobs and prosperity, and helping BiH become a self-sustaining state capable of taking its rightful place within the European Union,” the High Representative, Paddy [...]

The High Representative, Paddy Ashdown, on Friday enacted legislative changes in the Ministry of Interior (MoI) Laws in nine of the ten FBiH Cantons. These changes allow the Ministries of Interior of Cantons Two to Ten to seek UNMiBH accreditation showing that they meet basic standards of democratic policing. Canton 1, the Una-Sana Canton, has alre [...]

Sales-tax fraud and money-laundering in Bosnia and Herzegovina have reached "staggering proportions", the High Representative, Paddy Ashdown, told journalists in Sarajevo today. The High Representative spoke at a briefing on tax fraud given by the Head of the European Union’s Customs and Fiscal Assistance Office (CAFAO), Allan Jensen. The Hig [...]

The High Representative, Paddy Ashdown, today issued a Decision appointing Judge Carlos Jorge Martins Ribeiro, a Portuguese Civil and Criminal Law Judge, an international member of the High Judicial and Prosecutorial Councils of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), the Federation of BiH (FBiH) and the Republika Srpska (RS).

The International Community is setting up a Task Force to monitor the investigation into the ORAO affair by the RS authorities. The Task Force will be led by SFOR, with the participation of OHR, OSCE and other relevant international authorities. It will have complete access to all relevant documentation and officials and will pursue related inciden [...]

The High Representative, Paddy Ashdown, gave evidence on Wednesday to the International Criminal Tribunal for Former Yugoslavia at the Hague, in the case against Radoslav Brdjanin and Momir Talic. Appearing as a witness for the prosecution, the High Representative described his visits to Manjaca and Trnopolje camps in early August 1992...

The PLIP agencies, OHR, UNHCR, OSCE, CRPC and UNMIBH, would like to announce the Property Law Implementation results for October 2002. The overall implementation ratio reached 64 percent in October, which is an increase of two percent from last month throughout the country...

The Office of the High Representative (South) has moved to its new premises.

The High Representative, Paddy Ashdown, on Wednesday issued a Decision amending the Structure of CRA Expenditures for 2002 in order to allow the CRA to continue functioning. This Decision gives legal force to a majority decision already taken by the BiH Council of Ministers to ensure adequate funding for the CRA until its next annual budget is appr [...]