OHR Press Releases

Sarajevo, 15 May 2001 The High Representative, Wolfgang Petritsch, welcomes today's decisions of the RS Government concerning resignations and dismissals of senior officials in Republika Srpska in connection with the Trebinje and Banka Luka riots. They include the RS interior minister, Perica Bundalo, deputy RS interior minister Brano Pecanac, the [...]

Sarajevo, 14 May 2001 The High Representative, Wolfgang Petritsch, today in Vienna opened a decisive round of negotiations on succession issues related to the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. Representatives from the five successor states -- Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Slovenia and the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia [...]

Sarajevo, 14 May 2001 The Head of the OHR's Public Affairs Department, Alexandra Stiglmayer, was injured in a riding accident yesterday near Sarajevo. She was immediately transported to the SFOR military hospital in Rajlovac and was flown out early this morning to Germany for medical treatment.

Sarajevo, 11 May 2001 The High Representative, Wolfgang Petritsch, is pleased that the process of providing Bosnia and Herzegovina with a professional, apolitical civil service has entered its final phase, and urges all concerned to pass the drafted legislation as soon as possible.

Sarajevo, 10 May 2001 The High Representative, Wolfgang Petritsch, today issued a Decision which registers the Foundation for the Potocari Memorial and Cemetery. The Statute covered by this Decision puts in place the management structure for the planned memorial site for the victims of the Srebrenica massacre - the worst in Europe since World War T [...]

Sarajevo, 10 May 2001 The High Representative, Wolfgang Petritsch, and the Political Directors of the Peace Implementation Council's Steering Board yesterday held a constructive meeting with the Council of Ministers in Sarajevo. During their fruitful discussions, the Council of Ministers, headed by Prime Minister Bozidar Matic, presented its Govern [...]

Sarajevo, 07 May 2001 The High Representative, Wolfgang Petritsch, today welcomed the launch of the new PBS and Federation Radio services. The new services are a critical step in the restructuring of the public broadcasting system in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and represent a positive step towards the development of a healthy civil society and a move [...]

Sarajevo, 07 May 2001 The High Representative, Wolfgang Petritsch, is appalled at the outbreak of violence in Banja Luka today, which has been organised to prevent the laying of the corner stone of the Ferhadija Mosque. He urges the RS authorities to bring the situation under control.

Sarajevo, 05 May 2001 The High Representative, Wolfgang Petritsch, condemns in the strongest terms today's outbreak of violence in Trebinje before the beginning of a ceremony to lay the cornerstone of the Osman Pasha Mosque. The Special Envoy of the Office of the High Representative to Trebinje, Daniel Ruiz, was injured, and the ceremony had to be [...]

Sarajevo, 04 May 2001 The Office of the High Representative is pleased with the positive approach taken by the Canton Sarajevo authorities since the Arbitrator, Mr. Justice Sheridan, announced his final and binding decision on the location of the Inter Entity Boundary Line (IEBL) in the Sarajevo suburbs of Dobrinja I and IV. Representatives of Cant [...]