OHR Press Releases

Sarajevo, 24 January 2001 The High Representative, Wolfgang Petritsch, met yesterday in Sarajevo with Martin Ragu`, the Chair of the BiH Council of Ministers. During the meeting Mr. Raguz provided the High Representative with an update of the Council's recent work, which the High Representative evaluated positively. The two also discussed the statu [...]

Sarajevo, 23 January 2001 During the month of November, the rate of implementation of property laws in BiH rose from 19% to 20%. In the Federation, the rate has increased to 27% from 25%, and from 11% to 12% in the Republika Srpska. The rate in Brcko has dropped to 14% due to the removal of repossessions of destroyed properties from the statistics. [...]

Brussels, 22 January 2001 The High Representative, Wolfgang Petritsch, today in Brussels for the first time addressed the Foreign Affairs Committee of the European Parliament and held a meeting with the Coordinator of the Stability Pact, Bodo Hombach. In his speech before the Foreign Affairs Committee of the European Parliament, the High Representa [...]

Sarajevo, 19 January 2001 The High Representative, Wolfgang Petritsch, today met the President of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Vojislav Kostunica, to discuss the Dayton peace process in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Also present at the meeting were FRY Foreign Minister Goran Svilanovic and BiH Foreign Minister Jadranko Prlic. Following their meeti [...]

Sarajevo, 18 January 2001 Ambassador Colin A. Munro, who was appointed the new Deputy High Representative in BiH and the Head of the Regional Office of the High Representative (South) by Ambassador Wolfgang Petritsch last December, took up his duties in Mostar on January 15, 2001.

Sarajevo, 15 January 2001 The High Representative, Wolfgang Petritsch, learned with much sorrow over the weekend of the tragic accident near Foca on Saturday, January 13, when a bus slipped off the road into a canyon next to the Bistrica River. Nine passengers, among them several children, lost their lives. The High Representative wishes to express [...]

Sarajevo, 12 January 2001 The High Representative, Wolfgang Petritsch, is concerned by an official statement made yesterday by the BiH Presidency, which puts off naming the Chairman of the Council of Ministers until the BiH House of Peoples is formed. The BiH Presidency spokesman stated that the High Representative supported this position.

Sarajevo, 11 January 2001 The High Representative, Wolfgang Petritsch, today issued a Decision which establishes an essential interim mechanism guaranteeing the means to implement the Constitutional Court's ruling of 30 June and July 1, 2000, in what is now known as the "Constituent Peoples Case". Entity parliaments were required to amend their res [...]

Sarajevo, 05 January 2001 The Office of the High Representative notes that an agreement to rebuild the former Secondary School Centre "Jura Mikulic" in Gornji Vakuf was signed today. The agreement, brokered by the OHR’s Senior Education Advisor, Claude Kieffer, and the Special Envoy of the High representative in Bugojno, Ulrich Bucher, will p [...]