OHR Press Releases

The High Representative, Wolfgang Petritsch, takes the opportunity to congratulate all those who have contributed to yesterday’s successful unification of football in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The High Representative thanks UEFA and FIFA for their consistent efforts over the last five years to re-unite the football community of Bosnia and Herze [...]

The High Representative, Wolfgang Petritsch, last night issued a package of Decisions providing a legal base for the three public broadcasters of the Public Broadcasting System in Bosnia and Herzegovina. These laws - the Law on the Basis of the Public Broadcasting System and on the Public Broadcasting Service of BiH, the Law on Radio Television Fed [...]

The High Representative today issued a package of decisions in order to strengthen democracy and the rule of law in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The decisions include the promulgation of the Civil Service Law and the establishment of an independent Civil Service Agency, the promulgation of the Law on Conflict of Interest and the establishing of independ [...]

The High Representative, Wolfgang Petritsch, today imposed a package of decisions establishing the institutional framework necessary to reform the judiciary in the coming months. These Decisions will strengthen the judicial reform process at the State and Entity level in BiH, establishing the basis for a truly independent judiciary as the third bra [...]

The High Representative, Wolfgang Petritsch, today met with the chair and members of the Council of Ministers, as well as the prime ministers and representatives of the two Entity governments who agreed to undertake all activities necessary to ensure the Mrakovica-Sarajevo Agreement is fully and consistently implemented in both Entities. This will [...]

The High Representative, Wolfgang Petritsch, expresses his full support for the message conveyed by Principal Deputy High Representative Donald Hays on Thursday at a roundtable on education reform. The High Representative reaffirms the commitment of the OHR and the International Community to substantial and rapid reform of the BiH education system, [...]

The High Representative, Wolfgang Petritsch, today issued three Decisions lifting the 4 December 2001 freeze on the privatisation of certain unclaimed apartments in the Federation. He also established the necessary Commissions to review the revalidation of cancelled occupancy rights and the issuance of new occupancy rights to socially owned propert [...]

The High Representative, Wolfgang Petritsch, on Tuesday called on the people of BiH to support those honest judges, politicians, civil servants and police officers who are already engaged in the fight against fraud and corruption. Speaking at an anti-corruption conference at the Holiday Inn in Sarajevo, the High Representative said that anti-corrup [...]

The High Representative, Wolfgang Petritsch, today visited Srebrenica, and Burnice, a return site in Bratunac Municipality, where the Austrian NGO, "Bauern Helfen Bauern” (Farmers for Farmers) is helping to regenerate the community. The High Representative met with Srebrenica Mayor Sefket Hafizovic, and with people involved in return activiti [...]

Bosnia and Herzegovina’s civic society has to play a decisive role in ensuring that the recent amendments to the Entity Constitutions are fully implemented and their goal – the representation of BiH’s constituent peoples and citizens at all levels of government and public administration and their participation in the political dec [...]