OHR related Interviews

High Representative Christian Schwarz-Schilling believes that there are better days ahead for decertified police officers.In his interview for «Dnevni Avaz», he pointed out that he found a positive climate in the Security Council, before which he spoke yesterday.

The High Representative Christian Schwarz-Schilling travels to the USA next week, where he is going to meet with representatives of the American administration and international financial organizations, as well as with the UN Secretary-General, Kofi Annan and report to the UN Security Council. We talked to the German diplomat before his departure t [...]

CHRISTIAN SCHWARZ-SCHILLING (76), the new and the last High Representative of the International Community for BiH, who succeed the controversial Lord Paddy Ashdown on 31 January 2006, explains his ambitious plan for political and economical reforms in the country

Among his priorities for the next 12 months, the High Representative, Christian Schwarz-Schilling, includes a more liberal visa regime. He points out that he will talk to the Austrian Chancellor Wolfgang Schuessel very soon, as well as to the EU Ministries of Interior, in order to draw their attention to the issue of freer movement of BiH busines [...]

WITH THE ARRIVAL of Christian Schwarz-Schilling as the High Representative of the International Community to Bosnia and Herzegovina, the assumption was that the draconian “Bonn powers” will become a part of BiHs history. However, after the German political veteran visited Brussels the threat of the powers, which allow for the imposition of laws, re [...]

The High Representative to BiH, Christian Schwarz-Schilling, in an interview for “Dnevni avaz” says he thinks that it is hardly likely for the current state system in Bosnia and Herzegovina, based on municipalities, cantons, two Entities, one district and a weak central government, to pull the country out of economic crisis and lead it towards the [...]

Christian Scwarz-Schillling, former German minister, mediator and businessman, emphasized in his first interview that he would base his work, during the mandate of the High Representative, on dialogue with local political forces, rather than on imposition and pressure. In his mandate, there will not be – what he calls – OHR's laws. If the October e [...]

The British Lord, Paddy Ashdown, who will officially hand over the post of High Representative for BiH to his German successor Christian Schwarz-Schilling at the end of this month, in his last interview for Vecernji list, mainly focused on the future of Bosnia and Herzegovina, which, according to him, will be spent in the company of European countr [...]

After his four-year mandate as the International Community’s High Representative for BiH, a majority of people in BiH believe he has not justified his position. He, on the other hand, believes he is going home following a job well done. Results that Ashdown is proud of do not mean much to many people in BiH, who, in most cases, view effects of his [...]

As Dnevni avaz has already written, the Peace Implementation Council (PIC) will announce today that Christian Schwarz-Schilling is the new High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina.