OHR Press Releases

Senior Deputy High Representative Ambassador Hanns Schumacher met today with Dr. Haris Silajdzic, Co-Chair of the Council of Ministers, and representatives of the Alternative Council of Ministers, to start discussing ways of restructuring the Council of Ministers after the elections. "We are focussing on chairmanship, number of ministerial portfoli [...]

The Head of the OSCE Mission Robert Barry and the High Representative Carlos Westendorp strongly condemn yesterday's incident in Zvornik in which the Bosniak vice-president of the executive board of the municipality, Izet Nakicevic, was verbally and physically attacked in his office, with the result that he had to leave the town. Initial reports su [...]

High Representative Carlos Westendorp and his Principal Deputy Jacques Paul Klein would like to stress that, in their discussions with President Franjo Tudjman of the Republic of Croatia last Tuesday, they did not suggest that President Tudjman hold a meeting with the leaders and candidates of Croatian political parties in Bosnia and Herzegovina. I [...]

Sarajevo, 21 August 1998 On Thursday, Senior Deputy High Representative Hanns Schumacher traveled to Bugojno with the three Federation Ombudsmen to meet with Mayor Dzevad Mlaco, and President of the Bugojno Municipal Assembly, Ivo Mrso. The Ambassador and the Ombudsmen introduced to the local officials two representatives of the Office of the Feder [...]

Sarajevo, 13 August 1998 Members of the SRS have recently made statements in support of the first point of their party Program, which advocates the "union of the whole Serb people and establishment of a governmental community in the complete Serb national territory that will include Serbia, Montenegro, Republika Srpska and Serb Krajina Republic".

Sarajevo, 5 August 1998 The new property and housing laws in the Federation of BiH put in place a process for reclaiming socially-owned apartments which were declared abandoned during the war. You should file your claim to repossess with the housing authority in the Federation municipality where the apartment is located.

Sarajevo, 4 August 1998 High Representative Carlos Westendorp has decided to impose the "Law on the Courts of the Herzegovina-Neretva Canton" and the "Law on the Court of the Central Zone of the City of Mostar." The two laws went into effect yesterday. The High Representative's move came as a reaction to the failure of the Herzegovina-Neretva autho [...]

Sarajevo, 4 August 1998 Thousands of people who used to live in socially-owned apartments located in territory that is now in the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, will lose their occupancy rights if they do not file their claims by October 4 1998. In order to get the property back a claim must be filed with the housing authority in the Federat [...]

Sarajevo, 29 July 1998 High Representative Carlos Westendorp would like to reiterate that both the Constitution of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Law on Citizenship, which went into effect on January 1 of this year, allow for dual citizenship. Citizens of Bosnia and Herzegovina are allowed to hold the citizenship of another state provided that a bi [...]