OHR related Interviews

Interview: Wolfgang Petritsch, the High Representative in BiH for Nezavisne Novine

"Take a look in the past and you will see that we have done quite a lot in the past two years" Sarajevo, 12 July 2001 The High Representative, Wolfgang Petritsch, received on Tuesday, July 17, a journalist of Slobodna Bosna and, in a detailed conversation, he talked about his view of the situation in our country, reasons for wanting to stay in BiH, [...]

Mostar, June 2001 Education has to be a national priority, to the same extent that economic recovery and refugee return are national priorities - and of course, an efficiently organized and properly delivered school curriculum will support economic recovery and refugee return.

"This is about Bosnia, not Utopia" 28 June, 2001 One of the most successful foreigners on the long list of those who have been dealing with Bosnia and Herzegovina has received a formal international recognition of his successful and extraordinarily dedicated work by obtaining the extension of his mandate.

"I will not dismiss parliamentarians" 27 June, 2001 OHR will not impose the Election Law, because, as Petritsch says, "that has to be done by members of the Parliament and not me" By: Almir Sarenkapa Thanks to the High Representative, Wolfgang Petritsch, our country did not experience one more political and diplomatic slap in the face.

Bosnia peace overseer blasts Serbs on warcrimes 26 June, 2001 By Nedim Dervisbegovic Bosnia's top peace overseer warned Bosnian Serb leaders on Tuesday to swiftly improve their "scandalous" level of cooperation with the U.N. war crimes tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. Referring to the authorities' failure to arrest suspects sought by The Hague t [...]

"We have returned the documents from the Hercegovacka Bank vault to the HDZ because six of my people were threatened to be killed in Grude" 7 June, 2001 Hostages: Something was really wrong in the Bank because bankers do not take hostages to protect documents from a legal audit. Evidence: We have substantial evidence that Hercegovacka Bank abused f [...]

Wolfgang Petritsch: 'A hero of our time' or 'a merciless protector' A preliminary investigation of misconduct at the Bank has shown that the situation is worse than we expected! 21 May, 2001 In a wide-ranging interview with our newspaper the High Representative of the IC in BiH responds to questions about recent events in the RS, and Croat self-rul [...]

ETHNIC STATES ARE A THING OF THE PAST 9 May, 2001 The International Community hasn't allowed the establishment of Republika Srpska Krajina and would not allow Jelavic to establish Herceg-Bosna within BiH By: Igor Gajic The last visit of the High Representative to BiH Wolfgang Petritsch to Banja Luka was mainly devoted to discussing economic program [...]

May 3, 2001 Jelavic's days on the political scene are numbered The HDZ BiH has constantly been losing support - over the last five years it lost half of its constituency. The accusations of use of force in the Hercegovacka bank come from the very same people who organised the gathering of the crowd, from the persons who threw stones, who beat and i [...]