OHR Press Releases

05/29/2000

Clarification
Sarajevo, 30 May 2000 Recently, counterfeit documents and erroneous reports have appeared which suggest that the High Representative issued a Decision annulling the Federation's requirement that occupancy right holders repossessing socially owned apartments that have been declared abandoned, must wait for two years before they can purchase the apar [...]
05/26/2000

Comprehensive Financial Assessment of BiH Water Sector Underway
Sarajevo, 26 May 2000 The High Representative, Wolfgang Petritsch, is pleased to announce that an extensive financial audit of the water sector in the Federation BiH and the Republika Srpska, funded by a donation the European Commission, began this week. At the request of the High Representative, British experts will undertake a financial review an [...]
05/26/2000

Supervisor appoints new members of the interim Government of the Brcko District
Brcko, 26 May 2000 The Supervisor of Brcko, Robert W. Farrand, has issued today an Order appointing Mr. Nikola Ristic as Head of the Public Records Department of the interim Government of the Brcko District and Mr. Osman Osmanovic as Head of the District Revenue Agency of the Brcko District. Both positions became vacant last April, as a result of t [...]
05/26/2000

High Representative appoints new Supervisor of Brcko District
Sarajevo, 26 May 2000 The High Representative, Wolfgang Petritsch, has today appointed Ambassador Gary Matthews his Deputy and Supervisor of the District of Brcko. The appointment goes into effect on Friday June 2. Well acquainted with Bosnia and Herzegovina, Ambassador Matthews was most recently the Director of the OSCE Regional Center in Mostar. [...]
05/25/2000

TV Address by the High Representative, Wolfgang Petritsch
Sarajevo, 25 May 2000 (Scheduled to be broadcast Thursday evening by RTV BiH, RT RS, OBN and Radio Fern.) Good evening. You are certainly familiar with the main conclusions of the Conference in Brussels: urgent need for economic reform, accelerated return, and the establishment of a modern state with an efficient government. These are the objecti [...]
05/23/2000

High Representative removes further obstacles to private sector development
Sarajevo, 23 May 2000 On 22 May, the High Representative, Wolfgang Petritsch, took two measures to advance economic reform. First, he removed Mr. Stiepo Andrijic, President of the Management Board of the Federation Privatization Agency. And second, he issued a Decision amending the banking laws in each of the Entities. As the High Representative ha [...]
05/22/2000

Canton 10 Officials Removed
Sarajevo, 23 May 2000 The High Representative, Wolfgang Petritsch, and the OSCE Head of Mission, Robert Barry, have removed from office the Governor and Prime Minister of Canton 10, Ivan Ivic and Mirko Mihaljevic. The dismissed officials were informed of this decision, yesterday, Monday May 22nd, 2000. Both Mr.
05/22/2000

High Representative addresses EU’s General Affairs Council
Brussels, 22 May 2000 Today the High Representative, Wolfgang Petritsch, addressed the General Affairs Council of the European Union (EU). He briefed the foreign ministers of the 15 EU member states on the peace process in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) and the strategic priorities he has proposed to be endorsed at the Conference of the Peace Impleme [...]
05/18/2000

Brcko Supervisor Farrand Departs BiH
Sarajevo, 18 May 2000 The High Representative, Wolfgang Petritsch, is grateful to the Brcko Supervisor and Deputy High Representative, Bill Farrand, for his tireless efforts to create lasting peace and a spirit of tolerance in Brcko. Ambassador Farrand has informed the High Representative that he would like to leave his posting at the end of May af [...]