OHR Press Releases

Sarajevo, 24 February 2000 On Thursday 24 February at 15.00 hrs, the International Telecommunications Agency (ITU), based in Geneva, will officially hand over a Mobile Monitoring Station to the Telecommunications Regulatory Agency. This vehicle, with a value of KM 700.000, was built by the German firm Rohde and Schwarz, and is state of the art tech [...]

Sarajevo, 18 February 2000 The High Representative, Wolfgang Petritsch, met yesterday in London with Robin Cook, the UK Foreign Secretary, and Clare Short, Secretary of State for the Department for International Development, for talks on the situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Sarajevo, 18 February 2000 The OHR and the Swedish National Audit Office, the agency tasked with implementing the BiH State and Entity audit institutions, express their great concern about the lack of progress in establishing these institutions and the consequences that this failure might have for Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is high time that the St [...]

Sarajevo, 16 February 2000 The OHR would like to correct misleading press reports about the Conclusions reached at the Symposium on School Curricula held in Sarajevo on February 7 and 8 and co-hosted by the OHR and UNESCO, in particular as they were reported in the TV Erotel !9.00 hours news show on February 11. According to the Erotel report in wh [...]

Sarajevo, 11 February 2000 The High Representative and Foreign Minister Picula noted the historic importance of the Foreign Minister's visit to Sarajevo, given the fundamental role of the Republic of Croatia at the Dayton and Paris Peace Conferences and in the years since those pivotal events.

10 February 2000 Today, OHR hosted a conference on ways to tackle trafficking in drugs and other drugs-related offences in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The conference was attended by the relevant ministers from both entities, as well as State level ministers, together with BiH police experts, and experts from the United Nations Drug Control Program (UND [...]

Sarajevo, 10 February 2000 UNESCO and OHR co-hosted a successful symposium on curriculum reform in BiH on 7 and 8 February 2000, Sarajevo. It was attended by the team of experts from the University of Heidelberg who produced the initial UNESCO-sponsored report on the curricula of the "national" subjects in BiH, experts from Switzerland, Norway, Gre [...]

Sarajevo, 09 February 2000 OHR and OSCE warmly welcome the Republika Srpska National Assembly's decision yesterday to adopt a Law establishing a multi-ethnic Ombudsman Institution in the RS. The new permanent Ombudsman Institution will investigate violations of human rights and maladministration in the RS, and make recommendations for positive chan [...]

Brussels, 08 February 2000 The PIC Steering Board met at the level of Political Directors with the High Representative in Brussels on 8 February 2000. The Steering Board welcomed and fully endorsed the High Representative's increased emphasis on accelerating privatization and stimulating private sector development in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and esp [...]