OHR Press Releases

The Standing Committee on Military Matters (SCMM) is one of the common institutions established by Dayton. Its role is to coordinate the activities of armed forces in Bosnia and Herzegovina. A meeting of the SCMM was scheduled to take place at Lukavica, at 1000am on Tuesday 31st March 1998, under the chairmanship of President Izetbegovic.

The Office of the High Representative was involved in providing IC support to a visit by Croatian Serb refugees from the Banja Luka region to Vojnic/Croatia. In spite of arrangements with the head of the ODPR (the Croatian refugee authority) in Zagreb, Mr.

Negotiations on the re-structuring of the railway sector in Bosnia and Herzegovina continue. During the two day seminar held last week in Paris, at the seat of the International Union of Railways, important progress was made. It is likely that the final organisation of the sector will be finalised and made public before the deadline of 30 March 199 [...]

The Office of the High Representative considers the recent adoption of the Law on Cessation of the Application of the Law on Abandoned Apartments by the Federation Parliament a crucial step towards implementation of Annex 7 of the Peace Agreement. This law, along with the other two laws in the property legislation package, provides the essential le [...]

On Monday 16 February a meeting took place in the OHR between railway experts, Mr. Brankovic, Kontic and Knezovic and Mr Paul Monnory. The meeting concluded work on a draft decree regarding the establishment of a Commission for the Regulation of inter-Entity railway traffic.

The Bonn Peace Implementation Council has invited the High Representative "to establish a process leading to a decision on a new flag and symbols if the parties cannot agree on their own by 31 December 1997". With the expiration of this deadline, the High Representative announced his intention to establish an independent commission to propose alter [...]