09/14/2011

Interview with High Representative Valentin Inzko

As High Representative I have a duty to see the Dayton institutions functioning. The intentional blockade by certain cantons threatened the stability of the FBiH and rendered the formation of the BiH House of Peoples impossible. Both the FBiH authorities and the BiH Parliamentary Assembly are now in place and are functioning. Nor is there any quest [...]
08/08/2011

Interview with HR/EUSR Valentin Inzko

We are long past the point where the Council of Ministers should have been appointed. So many people across this country are struggling to get by.
08/01/2011

Interview with HR Valentin Inzko

Statements by President Dodik which deny the statehood of Bosnia and Herzegovina, which falsely characterize the country as a state union, which claim that BiH derives its sovereignty only from the entities, and which suggest the possibility of “state integration” with Serbia are at odds with the very foundations of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
07/25/2011

Interview with HR/EUSR Valentin Inzko

The Federation Government is in place and is functioning. And you should remember that I announced that my decision to temporarily suspend the application of the Election Commission’s ruling should remain in force until the FBiH Constitutional Court renders a final verdict.
07/20/2011

Interview with HR/EUSR Valentin Inzko

I have followed the process of Government formation in Central Bosnia, in West Herzegovina and in other cantons since the elections, giving the parties time and space to establish the cantonal authorities.
06/04/2011

Interview with HR/EUSR Valentin Inzko

The arrest of Mladic enables justice to take its course. There is an obvious moral question as to what kind of justice there is for the crimes of the magnitude that Mladic accused of but we need to take solace in the fact that this shows that no one is untouchable or above the law and that such crimes will not be forgotten. Of course Mladic’s arres [...]
05/09/2011

Interview with HR/EUSR Valentin Inzko

I will be giving the UNSC my regular update on BiH and will have meetings with US Deputy Secretary of State James Steinberg and US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Thomas Countryman. I will lay out the extremely worrying situation in the country but also the positive fact that the IC as a whole is ready to respond to the challenges that are befo [...]
04/25/2011

Interview with HR/EUSR Valentin Inzko

There is a small window of opportunity for the RS leadership to reconsider whether the course of action they have chosen is really in the interests of the citizens whom they represent.