OHR Press Releases
06/29/2001
High Representative Welcomes Signing of Succession Agreement in Vienna
Sarajevo, 29 June 2001 The High Representative, Wolfgang Petritsch, speaking today at the signing of the Agreement on Succession Issues of the Former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SFRY), welcomed the treaty as a historic step towards greater regional cooperation.
06/28/2001
Disappointing Progress of Bosnia and Herzegovina on the Path to Closer European Integration
Sarajevo, 28 June 2001 The High Representative, Wolfgang Petritsch, met this morning with the Head of Delegation of the European Commission, Hansjörg Kretschmer, and officials from the European Commission in Brussels to review Bosnia and Herzegovinaas prospects for European Integration.
06/28/2001
Slobodan Milosevic extradited to the Hague
Sarajevo, 28 June 2001 The High Representative, Wolfgang Petritsch, welcomes the decision by the government of Serbia to send Slobodan Milosevic, the former Yugoslav President, to the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in the Hague. This was clearly a very difficult decision for the Serbian Government twelve years to the day [...]
06/28/2001
High Representative Removes Canton 7 MoI Officials for rejecting the Federation constitution
Sarajevo, 28 June 2001 The High Representative, Wolfgang Petritsch, has removed Ivan Djogic, Chief of the Cabinet of the Interior Ministry of Canton 7, Branka Dadic, Head of the Sector for Legal, Personnel and Administrative Issues within the same Ministry and Zvonko Prskalo, the Deputy Head of the Ministry's Financial Sector, for their declaration [...]
06/28/2001
OHR signs agreement on social contributions and wage related taxes of local staff
Sarajevo, 28 June 2001 The Office of the High Representative, on Tuesday evening, signed Memoranda of Understanding (MoU) with the Ministers of Finance of the two Entities regarding the calculation and the payment of social contributions and levies for the local staff of the OHR.
06/27/2001
Statement of Henry L. Clarke, Supervisor of Brcko District, on the Issue of Non-Adoption of the Law on Education by the Brcko District Assembly
Brcko, 27 June 2001 After the Brcko District Assembly voted down the draft Law on Education at its 22nd regular session held on 27 June 2001, Brcko Supervisor Henry L. Clarke stated: "I am not surprised that the law was not adopted, but I’m disappointed.
06/27/2001
Ambassadors’ Tour of Return Areas
Sarajevo, 27 June 2001 Ambassadors from more than 20 countries assisting the Return process today participated in a helicopter tour of key return sites across Bosnia and Herzegovina. The ambassadors traveled at the invitation of High Representative Wolfgang Petritsch, COMSFOR General Michael L.
06/26/2001
High Representative could confirm Zepce Municipal Boundary Line Change from 1 September
Sarajevo, 26 June 2001 The High Representative, Wolfgang Petritsch, today confirmed that the International Review Panel (IRP), appointed according to his decision of October 6th 2000 integrating Zepce into the legal structures of the Zenica-Doboj Canton, has reported that the requirements set under the decision have been fulfilled subject to comple [...]
06/26/2001
Property implementation figures for May 2001
Sarajevo, 26 June 2001 The Agencies involved in the Property Law Implementation Plan (OHR, OSCE, UNHCR, UNMIBH and CRPC) announced that, with end of the school year and at the height of the return season, the summer months should be used to accelerate the process of the implementation of property laws in the way which will ensure sustained accelera [...]
06/26/2001
OHR and OSCE Call for Urgent Adoption of Election Law
Sarajevo, 26 June 2001 The High Representative, Wolfgang Petritsch, and the Head of the OSCE Mission to BiH, Robert M. Beecroft, deplore the most recent failure of the House of Representatives of the BiH Parliamentary Assembly to adopt the Election Law, despite the repeated calls to do so by the Peace Implementation Council.