OHR Press Releases

The Agencies involved in the Property Law Implementation Plan (OHR, OSCE, UNHCR, UNMIBH and CRPC) announced today that, as of the end of March 2002, the overall implementation rate of the property laws in BiH has risen to 46%.

The Office of the High Representative welcomes yesterday evening’s signing of a contract by the BiH Ministry of Civil Affairs and Communications and Siemens, on the implementation of the Citizens’ Identity Protection System. The CIPS project represents a major breakthrough in administering residency registration and personal-identity do [...]

The High Representative, Wolfgang Petritsch, todayissued a Decision prioritising the return of residential properties to returnee police officers in both Entities. Housing bodies, which under the property laws are obliged to resolve claims on the repossession of private and socially owned properties in the chronological order in which they were rec [...]

The High Representative, Wolfgang Petritsch, met today with a delegation from United World Colleges (UWC), the UK-based organization that runs schools throughout the world. UWC is proposing to open an international and residential college in Sarajevo. The school will be a fully accredited member of the UWC movement.

The High Representative Wolfgang Petritsch, COMSFOR, General John B. Sylvester and UNHCR Chief of Mission Werner Blatter have invited ambassadors of countries assisting with the return process to visit by helicopter key areas of return across the country on Tuesday, 30 April 2002. The tour had to be postponed due to bad weather.

On the occasion of Bosnia and Herzegovina’s accession to the Council of Europe, the High Representative, Wolfgang Petritsch, expresses his satisfaction with this achievement by the BiH authorities and his confidence that BiH will now integrate more and more with European organisations and structures.

The High Representative Wolfgang Petritsch, OSCE Ambassador to BiH Robert Beecroft, UNHCR Chief of Mission to BiH Werner Blatter, Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General Jacques—Paul Klein and Executive Officer of the Commission for Real Property Claims of Displaced Persons and Refugees Steven Segal join in condemning the political [...]

In partnership with Bosnia and Herzegovina's political leadership and the governments of the two Entities, the High Representative, Wolfgang Petritsch, has today completed the long process of constitutional change in BiH's Entities by issuing three Decisions. By closing a small number of gaps in the constitutional amendments, the High Representativ [...]

The Communications Regulatory Agency, the Banking Regulatory Agency and other independent market regulators are an integral and indispensable part of the transformation of the BiH economy, Deputy High Representative and Head of the OHR Economics Department Patrice Dreiski told a conference in Sarajevo today.