OHR Press Releases
06/05/2014
High Representative supports ITA efforts to accelerate delivery of aid to flood victims
High Representative Valentin Inzko met today with BiH Minister of Finance and Treasury and Chairman of the Governing Board of the Indirect Taxation Authority (ITA) Nikola Spiric and ITA Director Miro Dzakula.
05/20/2014
High Representative Visits Austrian EUFOR Contingent
High Representative Valentin Inzko paid a visit today to the Austrian contingent of EUFOR, who briefed him on efforts undertaken to assist Bosnia and Herzegovina and its people as part of the flood rescue efforts.
05/19/2014
Celebrating Bosnia and Herzegovina’s Membership to the UN
“On 22 May 1992 the UN General Assembly accepted Bosnia and Herzegovina as a member to the United Nations. Previously, on 20 May, the UN Security Council had adopted a resolution recommending the country’s membership and expressing its conviction that Bosnia and Herzegovina will make a significant contribution to the work of the organisation”. [...]
05/16/2014
Inzko meets Ban Ki-moon
Political leaders have failed to deliver concrete progress in Bosnia and Herzegovina over the last six months, while senior officials from Republika Srpska continue to challenge the Peace Agreement, as well as the sovereignty and the territorial integrity of the state, High Representative Valentin Inzko told UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon in New [...]
05/15/2014
High Representative tells UN Security Council that job in BiH is “not yet complete”
Members of a privileged political class in Bosnia and Herzegovina continue to put their personal interests before those of the country and its citizens, High Representative Valentin Inzko told the UN Security Council in New York today.
05/13/2014
High Representative briefs U.S. officials on Bosnia and Herzegovina
High Representative Valentin Inzko is in Washington today, 13 May, for talks with U.S. officials on the situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina ahead of the forthcoming meeting of the Peace Implementation Council on 21-22 May in Sarajevo.
05/09/2014
High Representative submits 45th report on Bosnia and Herzegovina to the United Nations
In line with his mandate under the Dayton Peace Agreement, High Representative Valentin Inzko has submitted his regular report to United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon outlining the status of peace implementation in Bosnia and Herzegovina for the period from 21 October 2013 to 21 April 2014.
05/08/2014
Joint Statement on the Matter of Residence
The European Union Special Representative/Delegation of the European Union, the Embassy of the United States and the Office of the High Representative are very concerned about the ongoing politicization of the matter of residence in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
04/26/2014
The Fundamental Rights of BiH Citizens
When other parts of Europe were mired in religious or ideological intolerance, Bosnia and Herzegovina was a place where diversity was valued, High Representative Valentin Inzko told an international conference in Trieste today. He said this was the historical context in which the Jews who were expelled from Spain at the end of the 15th century foun [...]