OHR Press Releases

Sarajevo, 09 May 2000 The High Representative, Wolfgang Petritsch, and the Head of the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina, Ambassador Robert Barry, have reminded the BiH Parliament of its continuing responsibility to adopt an election law. They sent a letter underlining this obligation to the Collegium of the BiH House of Representatives last F [...]

Sarajevo, 07 May 2000 Corruption and organized crime have been repeatedly identified as obstacles to the successful implementation of the Dayton Peace Agreement. Money laundering, inseparable part of organized crime and corruption, is an effort to conceal the illicit source of money in order to legitimize it for further profit making. The global pr [...]

Sarajevo, 05 May 2000 The third and final meeting of the Interim Coordinating Board for the Training of Judges and Prosecutors concluded in Neum yesterday. Important steps were taken towards the setting up of Training Institutes in the Repulika Srpska and Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Draft laws will shortly be finalised for presentation to [...]

Mostar, 05 May 2000 OHR(S) and the World Bank express their satisfaction with today's successful session of the newly-formed Management Board of the future unified Mostar Water Supply Company "Vodovod". The session, attended by both Croat and Bosniak representatives, was a precondition for the realization of the 12 million US dollar World Bank cred [...]

Sarajevo, 5 May 2000 Sunday, May 7th will mark the passing of seven years since the destruction of two of the most important cultural sites in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Ferhadija and Arnaudija mosques in Banja Luka. These mosques were given and still hold the highest cultural protection in RS law.

Sarajevo, 04 May 2000 The High Representative, Wolfgang Petritsch, delivered an address to the North Atlantic Council in Brussels today. It was the second time he has been invited to address the NAC. The High Representative also met separately with the Nato Secretary General, George Robertson. The central theme of his speech was that SFOR's continu [...]

Mostar, 03 May 2000 Last week, the OHR(S) and the World Bank were informed that the City Council had unanimously adopted the Mayor's and the Deputy Mayor's proposal for the composition of the Management Board of the future unified Mostar water supply company VODOVOD.

Mostar, 02 May 2000 The OHR is pleased to announce that on May 2, 2000, around 80 Bosniak returnees' children will join their Croat colleagues at the municipal primary school in Stolac. The opening of 4 classrooms and 1 staff room in the primary school in Stolac is an interim compromise solution that resulted from long-lasting negotiations that OHR [...]

Sarajevo, 02 May 2000 Today, the Office of the High Representative opened a sub-office in Livno in Canton 10, which will operate under the authority of the OHR Office South in Mostar. The Head of the Office is Gerhard Sontheim, Deputy Head of the OHR Office South. The Livno Office has been established in order to further the implementation of the D [...]

Sarajevo, 28 April 2000 The High Representative, Wolfgang Petritsch, met today in Sarajevo with Council of Europe Rapporteurs Laszlo Surjan, of the Political Affairs Committee, and Ms. Anneli Jaatteenmaki of the Legal Affairs and Human Rights Committee to discuss progress made in Bosnia and Herzegovina on meeting the preconditions for accession to [...]