OHR Press Releases

The High Representative, Paddy Ashdown, on Thursday completed a two-day visit to the United States. On Wednesday the High Representative addressed the UN Security Council, along with the UN Secretary General’s Special Representative to BiH, Jacques Paul Klein, and on Thursday he met with senior US administration officials from the Pentagon, t [...]

The agencies involved in property law implementation, OHR, OSCE, UNHCR, CRPC and UNMIBH applaud the housing authorities in Lopare, Sekovici, Kresevo and Srbac who have solved all the claims submitted to their offices. In doing so they have created conditions for the return of all claimants to their pre-war properties and proven once and for all tha [...]

The High Representative, Paddy Ashdown, on Monday removed Munir Alibabic from his position as director of the Federation Intelligence Service (FOSS). This Decision is part of the process of introducing standards of accountability and professionalism that are expected of intelligence services in other European democracies Mr Alibabic has served hi [...]

The High Representative, Paddy Ashdown, on Monday issued two Decisions bringing the laws on the Government of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina into line with the Constitutional amendments. The amended legislation imposed by the High Representative will allow a new Federation government to begin working as quickly as possible on the urgent [...]

The High Representative, Paddy Ashdown, on Monday announced that from now on the OHR will extend the process of vetting to the state-level ministers of Treasury and Foreign Trade and Economic Relations, Entity-level finance ministers, education ministers at the cantonal and Entity levels and the refugee ministers at the Entity and state levels, bef [...]

The High Representative, Paddy Ashdown, today passed into law essential draft economic legislation that was considered by the previous parliaments but never finally agreed. The economic issues dependent on this legislation must be dealt with so the next government is not bogged down in the last government’s unfinished business These laws wil [...]

Speaking at a seminar this morning organised by the Sarajevo University School of Economics, the High Representative, Paddy Ashdown, called on the people of BiH and their leaders to focus their efforts on urgent economic reform.

The High Representative, Paddy Ashdown, today issued a Decision confirming the Council of Ministers' original decision of 10 October this year allocating the former “Victor Bubanj” JNA barracks, as the seat of the BiH Court. The High Representative’s Decision means that the BiH Court will be located in these barracks. Issuing this Decision, the H [...]

It has been suggested that reforming the Council of Ministers to make it more effective, for example by ending the principle of rotation, would require changes to the Dayton Peace Agreement and the BiH constitution. This is not the case. Speaking to international investors and economic administrators at the Joint Institutions Building in Sarajevo [...]