OHR related Interviews

While holidays are clearly a sensitive issue in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Rule of Law must be respected at all times. All authorities in BiH, including the RS authorities are duty bound to implement final and binding decisions of the BiH Constitutional Court.

I have always advocated early candidacy status and membership as soon as BiH meets all conditions. This is important for BiH because it would trigger much needed changes.

I have always been an advocate for a faster granting of a candidate status, and a slower granting of a member status. What is most important in-between is transition, reforms…

Maybe the international community has not been putting enough stress on coexistence, because after the war there was a lot of talk about military security, which is understandable. Maybe we should have had programmes for coexistence and reconciliation, like, for example, the French and the Germans.

I strongly believe that without truth and justice reconciliation and healing is impossible. Also, to reach the truth and justice is our debt to the victims and the last thing we can do to make them rest in peace.

My views on the referendum are well known, and I used this opportunity to once again share them with the leadership of Republika Srpska.

I welcome the signals indicating the referendum has been put to one side. This is the right thing to do.