OHR related Articles

A major plank in the effort to bring prosperity to Bosnia and Herzegovina may or may not be set in place this week. In Brussels on Thursday and Friday, a negotiating team from Bosnia and Herzegovina, comprising the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry for Foreign Trade and Economic Relations, will try to complete negotiations that will allo [...]

CNN has just begun broadcasting a series of short videos inviting viewers all over the world to “Enjoy Bosnia and Herzegovina”. These tourism promotion spots, produced by the Foreign Investment Promotion Agency, bring out much of what is most beautiful and best in this country and will be seen by hundreds of millions of people in the coming months. [...]

Next week in Brussels I will have meetings with the European Union and NATO and address the European Parliament. In the aftermath of last Sunday’s elections Bosnia and Herzegovina is entering a new political landscape, and during my Brussels visit I want to make sure that the possibilities of this landscape are properly understood by this country’s [...]

The history I learned at school was full of dates – perhaps readers of my generation in Bosnia and Herzegovina had the same experience. First and foremost we learned the dates of battles. Then we learned the dates of treaties. History seemed like a long succession of wars starting, wars finishing and wars starting again. And in among the treaties a [...]

Part of my job as Principal Deputy High Representative is to work, with my BiH and international colleagues, to support Bosnia and Herzegovina’s economic development.

Politics is the art of the possible – or at least it should be. This is what makes the political life rewarding, as anyone will tell you who has played a role in getting a hospital built or helped to secure funds for a children’s playground or won an investment contract that will create jobs.

All of us are aware that Mostar is a powerful symbol, and not just inside Bosnia and Herzegovina. It’s a city whose significance is understood throughout the world. The Old Bridge represents timeless truths about the possibility of peaceful and creative coexistence among different communities.

Switch on the radio or television, open any newspaper and it’s near impossible to avoid hearing politicians either promising all manner of things

Today is the 100th day since my speech to the Parliamentary Assembly of Bosnia and Herzegovina as well as the first day of the election campaign, exactly one month before the poll to elect a new Parliamentary Assembly. It is, therefore, time to pass judgement on the performance of those elected in the 2002 elections and to determine which leaders a [...]

It seems that everyone has a view as to the wisdom of the decision to close the Office of the High Representative next year and every person I speak with in this country has a different interpretation of my own position on the matter. Given the central role in implementing peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina that the OHR has played to date, this state [...]