OHR Press Releases

Sarajevo, 24 January 2000 The OHR would like to inform returnees that the deadline for applications for reconnection to the telephone networks in Bosnia and Herzegovina for free or only 50 KM will expire tomorrow, Tuesday 25 January. The High Representative's Decision on the Reconnection of Pre-Conflict Subscribers to the Telephone Networks of 30 J [...]

Sarajevo, 21 January 2000 OHR's Anti-Fraud Unit visited Una-Sana Canton earlier this week to meet with the Minister of Justice and members of the judiciary to discuss ways of enhancing ongoing anti-corruption efforts in the Canton, and to identify where assistance and expertise are most needed.

Sarajevo, 18 January 2000 The High Representative, Wolfgang Petritsch, has called for problems in Higher Education to be urgently addressed and supports the need to establish a Higher Education Council as recommended in a report made public last week by the World Bank and the Council of Europe at an education round table hosted by the OHR.

Sarajevo, 18 January 2000 The High Representative Wolfgang Petritsch and the OSCE Head of Mission Robert Barry today issued a joint letter to Federation Prime Minister Edhem Bicakcic, calling for the withdrawal of the proposed Law on Defamation which the Federation Government has recently approved and forwarded to the Federation Parliament for adop [...]

Sarajevo, 17 January 2000 The Office of the High Representative would like to make it clear that the recent remarks on the Independent Media Commission, made by various Government officials are wholly unacceptable. The IMC was the first Commission set up under Article II (8) of DPA Annex 10, with wide powers in the media field delegated to it.

Sarajevo, 14 January 2000 The High Representative, Wolfgang Petritsch, this week presided over the first meeting of the new year of the Commission on Public Corporations. Both Entity Prime Ministers, Messrs Bicakcic and Dodik, and the Deputy Prime Minister of the Federation, Mr Covic, attended the meeting, as did Paul Monnory, the Deputy High Repre [...]

Sarajevo, 13 January 2000 The High Representative, Wolfgang Petritsch, met today in Sarajevo with the presidents of Circle 99, the Council of Bosniak Intellectuals, the Croatian National Council and the Serb Civic Council to exchange views on a number of issues. The High Representative, Prof.

Sarajevo, 13 January 2000 The High Representative, Wolfgang Petritsch, yesterday issued a Decision clarifying the Serbian wording of an article in the RS Law on the Implementation of the Decisions of the Commission for Real Property Claims of Displaced Persons and Refugees (CRPC).

Sarajevo, 13 January 2000 The High Representative, Wolfgang Petritsch, warmly welcomes the agreements reached over the last few days on control of the upper airspace of Bosnia and Herzegovina, which will be released for civil use on 27 January 2000. The High Representative congratulates the three Directors General of the BiH Department of Civil Avi [...]