OHR Press Releases

The Council of Europe – and the European Convention on Human Rights – continue to play a very important role in setting standards that Bosnia and Herzegovina needs to meet, High Representative Valentin Inzko said today in a speech to the Monitoring Committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (CoE) in Strasbourg.

High Representative Valentin Inzko will take the necessary steps to facilitate the implementation of the Six Party Agreement on state and defence issues.

When the right of return is fully respected, all citizens in Bosnia and Herzegovina will be beneficiaries, the High Representative, Valentin Inzko, stated in an article published today in Oslobodjenje newspaper.

Representatives of the political parties in the Mostar City Council will meet tomorrow in Mostar for the second time to discuss changes to the City’s electoral system mandated by the BiH Constitutional Court.

Following consultation with relevant security and law enforcement partners the High Representative, Valentin Inzko, today issued a Decision lifting the order to seize the travel documents for one individual under investigation for crimes committed in and around Srebrenica in 1995.

Twenty years after the start of the siege of Sarajevo our thoughts turn to the Sarajevans, of all ethnicities, killed and wounded during the longest siege since World War II.

The OHR is concerned that the right of refugees and displaced persons to return freely to their pre-war homes in Bosnia and Herzegovina, a right guaranteed under Annex 7 of the Dayton Peace Agreement, has been undermined in recent court decisions.