OHR Press Releases

Principal Deputy High Representative Donald Hays has sent a letter to Chairman of the BiH Council of Ministers Dragan Mikerevic and Minister of Foreign Trade and Economic Relations Azra Hadziahmetovic, drawing their attention to the recent failure of the BiH Parliamentary Assembly to consider the Law on Changes and Amendments to the Law on Civil Av [...]

The High Representative, Paddy Ashdown, today issued two Decisions amending the BiH Law on Identity Cards of Citizens of BiH and the BiH Law on Central Registers and Data Exchange. The amendments clarify the contents of the new BiH identity card. In particular, the amendments remove the Entity reference, in response to recommendations made in a rec [...]

The OHR has called on BiH government leaders to end delays in passing crucial economic legislation. The High Representative, Paddy Ashdown, in his inaugural address to the BiH Parliamentary Assembly, defined his priorities as “first justice, then jobs, through reform.” He went on to say that in modern economies, governments are responsi [...]

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 the b [...]

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 [...]