OHR Press Releases

The High Representative, Paddy Ashdown, met the UN SRSG, Jacques Paul Klein, and all the senior staff of the UN & IPTF this morning. During a two-hour meeting, the High Representative and the UN SRSG had detailed discussions on various rule of law issues. The High Representative congratulated the UNMiBH on the success of its mission and the work th [...]

The High Representative, Paddy Ashdown, on Monday issued a Decision removing Kemal Terzic from his position as Mayor of Donji Vakuf. The Decision, which takes immediate effect, bars Mr Terzic from holding any official, elective or appointive public office and from running in elections or for office within political parties. The High Representative [...]

The Principal Deputy High Representative, Donald Hays, on Monday called upon business associations and government officials to cooperate toward a concrete and public action plan to support entrepreneurs, create jobs and promote investment.
Speaking to journalists after a forum in which representatives of local business associations discussed [...]

Speaking at a press conference in Mostar, the High Representative Paddy Ashdown summed up his impressions after a two-day visit to Central Bosnia and Herzegovina in ten points:...

The agencies of the Property Law Implementation Plan, the OHR, OSCE, UNHCR, CRPC and UNMIBH, wish to remind the owners of socially-owned apartments destroyed during the war, that claims for the repossession of such apartments must be made by July 1, 2002.

The Office of the High Representative has taken note of the announcement by Dr. Nikola Gavric that he has resigned, irrevocably, from the office of Mayor of Doboj. Dr. Gavric acknowledged political responsibility for the Doboj municipality’s failure to respect the 27 April 2000 Decision of the High Representative banning the reallocation of [...]

The High Representative, Paddy Ashdown, today issued a decision removing Nikola Grabovac from his position of Minister of Finance for the Federation of BiH. Mr. Grabovac and his Ministry have been implicated in the AM Sped affair yet the Minister has refused to accept final political responsibility for the actions or inaction’s of his Ministr [...]

The High Representative, Paddy Ashdown, congratulates SFOR, who today arrested Darko Mrda, indicted for war crimes by the ICTY. The High Representative welcomes this very positive move, that demonstrates an important commitment to the rule of law, an essential precondition for a lasting peace in southeastern Europe. For too long, these people have [...]