OHR Press Releases

Sarajevo, 31 August 2000 The High Representative, Ambassador Wolfgang Petritsch, yesterday issued a Decision annulling the RS Law on Return of Confiscated Property and Compensation, the RS Law on Return of Seized Real Property, and the RS Law on the Return of Seized Land. Under the annulled laws the Republika Srpska assumed financial responsibility [...]

Sarajevo, 30 August 2000 The Office of the High Representative is stunned by the utter irresponsibility displayed by some of the members of the BiH House of Representatives at yesterdays session where the Law on a single passport was tabled for discussion. After 32 days of summer recess, only 24 out 42 parliamentarians found time to attend yesterda [...]

Mostar, 30 August 2000 The Agreement on partial accommodation of the "Scipe" Primary School within the "Marko Marulic" Primary School building in Prozor-Rama was signed today by the C7 Minister and Deputy Minister of Education, the Prozor-Rama Mayor, the Chair and the Vice-chair of the Prozor-Rama Municipal Council, the two school directors and the [...]

Sarajevo, 29 August 2000 The High Representative Wolfgang Petritsch, COMSFOR Lt. Gen. Ronald E. Adams and UNHCR Chief of Mission Werner Blatter have invited Ambassadors of countries represented in Bosnia and Herzegovina to visit by helicopter key areas of return across the country on Thursday, August 31, 2000. The aim of the tour is to view progres [...]

Sarajevo, 18 August 2000 The High Representative, Wolfgang Petritsch, today issued a decision amending the Federation Law on Funds Management Companies and Investment Funds. Paragraph 3 of Article 134, which limited the period in which Private Investment Funds (PIFs) could subscribe to shares to three months has now been deleted. Citizens of Bosnia [...]

Sarajevo, 07 August 2000 The High Representative, Wolfgang Petritsch, regrets that he has had to amend the Law on Filling a Vacant Position of a Member of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina which was adopted by the BiH Parliamentary Assembly on July 31. The High Representative has decided to impose amendments which ensure the election of a Pr [...]

Sarajevo, 28 July 2000 Senior Deputy High Representative, Ambassador Dr. Matei Hoffmann, welcomes the swift adoption of the Law on Party Financing by the House of Representatives of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The adoption of this law represents a strong commitment towards a further democratisation of Bosnia and Herzegovina by political forces here.

Sarajevo, 28 July 2000 The Office of the High Representative and the OSCE Mission to Bosnia-Herzegovina are amazed at the BiH House of Representatives' rush to adopt without public debate or examination by the constitutional commission a law on presidential succession.

Sarajevo, 27 July 2000 The Council of Ministers today approved the amendments to the Law on Passports. The amendments envisage a single, neutral passport for Bosnia and Herzegovina. The single passport is a requirement from the 1998 Madrid Declaration of the Peace Implementation Council and the Presidency committed itself to the creation of a singl [...]