OHR Press Releases
11/21/2002
PIC Steering Board discusses ORAO affair (Amended 27 November 2002)
Today in Brussels the Peace Implementation Council's Steering Board Political Directors meet with BiH President Mirko Sarovic and RS Prime Minister Mladen Ivanic regarding the ORAO affair. The High Representative, Paddy Ashdown, following the discussion said that the Steering Board considered "the interim report submitted by the Republika Srpska au [...]
11/21/2002
High Representative address EU Political and Security Committee
The High Representative and European Union Special Representative (EUSR), Paddy Ashdown, today addressed the EU Political and Security Committee in Brussels. The High Representative in his speech stressed the overriding importance of tackling organized crime in BiH and in the region in general. Organized crime now represents a grave threat both to [...]
11/19/2002
High Representative and ICTY Chief Prosecutor Joint Statement
Following their meeting today in the OHR Sarajevo, the High Representative, Paddy Ashdown, and the Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) Carla Del Ponte issued the following joint statement:
The Chief Prosecutor of ICTY and the High Representative have agreed that the issue of building the capacit [...]
11/18/2002
Supervisor Orders that Houses of Worship and Cemeteries May Not Be Privatized as Part of Public Enterprises
Under this order, issued on 18 November 2002, houses of worship and cemeteries must be excluded from the assets of public enterprises before they can be privatized. Houses of worship include churches, mosques, synagogues, and other buildings used primarily for prayer or worship by a religious community. The exclusion does not apply to completely [...]
11/18/2002
Preparatory meeting of the “Bulldozer” Committee
Principal Deputy High Representative Donald Hays yesterday chaired a meeting with some of BiH’s most successful business leaders and foreign investors in preparation for the first meeting of the “Bulldozer Committee”, which was launched by the High Representative Paddy Ashdown to dismantle the barriers to business growth and job [...]
11/18/2002
BiH takes over civil aviation
The International Standing Committee for Bosnia and Herzegovina yesterday held its last session in Sarajevo, thus effectively handing over its task of monitoring the full normalisation of civil aviation to Bosnia and Herzegovina. During the meeting attended by Azra Hadziahmetovic, the Minister of Foreign Trade and Economic Relations and other repre [...]
11/15/2002
Brcko Supervisor Revoked Appointment of Two Brcko District Assembly Councilors
Brcko Supervisor Henry L. Clarke has revoked the appointments of Mustafa Mujkanovic and Mirsad Islamovic from the Interim Assembly of the Brcko District of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
11/14/2002
Providing of Alternative and Emergency accommodation is a budgetary priority
On November 5 Senior Deputy High Representative Ambassador Gerhard Enver Schrömbgens sent letters to the Entity Prime Ministers, the Prime Ministers of all Cantons, and to the Mayors of all Municipalities of Bosnia and Herzegovina. These letters urge the BiH authorities to carry out an urgent assessment of, and provide adequate budgeting for, the a [...]
11/14/2002
High Representative removes Mr. Pero Markovic
The High Representative, Paddy Ashdown, today removed Mr. Pero Markovic, General Manager of Suma Herceg Bosne and former President of the municipality of Capljina. Mr. Markovic has been removed because of his long record of grossly and exceptionally mismanaging public resources. He has failed to show proper regard for the standards that a holder of [...]
11/13/2002
Brcko Supervisor on the Explosion Incident at the Home of the District Government Offical
Brcko Supervisor Henry L. Clarke today during the regular OHR Brcko press conference condemned the violent act of the so far unknown perpetrators who used explosive device against the house of the Brcko District Head of Department of Urbanism: