Saopćenja za javnost

Sarajevo, 20 September 2000 The High Representative, Wolfgang Petritsch, warmly welcomes the preliminary results in the investigation into the murder of the late Federation Deputy Minister of the Interior, Jozo Leutar. His Office knew Mr Leutar as a committed and courageous official who worked on combating corruption and advancing the cause of just [...]

Deadlines for Purchasing Socially Owned Apartments in the Federation

Sarajevo, 15 September 2000 The High Representative, Wolfgang Petritsch, held a series of high level meetings during the United Nations General Assembly in New York to push his three priority issues of refugee returns, economic reform and institution building in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov gave the High Representati [...]

Sarajevo, 15 September 2000 The Office of the High Representative is stunned by the inability of the BiH Parliament to make any progress on the basic issue of travel documents. Certain members of the House of Representatives of the Parliamentary Assembly of BiH have failed to rise above narrow party political interests by preventing discussion on t [...]

Activities of Federation Ombudsmen Not Affected by Organic Law During Transition Period

Sarajevo, 14 September 2000 The Office of the High Representative, the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina, the United Nations Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina and the United Nations High Commission for Refugees strongly condemn the car bomb attack on the vehicle of the Head of the OMI Banja Luka (Municipal Section of the RS Ministry of Refugee [...]

Sarajevo, 12 September 2000 The High Representative, Wolfgang Petritsch, regards the latest attempts by the RS National Assembly to obstruct the work of the current RS Entity Government as highly irresponsible. The High Representative also has serious doubts on whether the attempts of the Assembly to limit the Government's authority are in keeping [...]

Sarajevo, 08 September 2000 The High Representative, Wolfgang Petritsch, the head of the IMF mission in BiH, Bruno de Schaetzen, and the World Bank's representative in BiH, Joseph Ingram, today held an emergency meeting with senior Federation officials in which they were warned that any failure to adopt a package of amendments to the Entity's pensi [...]

Sarajevo, 08 September 2000 OHR welcomes the agreement signed today between representatives of the BiH and FRY vehicle insurance industries allowing mutual recognition of insurance for cross-border traffic. The arrangement means that all BiH drivers holding valid green cards may enter the FRY without paying border insurance.

Sarajevo, 08 September 2000 Fifteen public officials have been informed in writing by the High Representative, Wolfgang Petritsch, and the OSCE Head of Mission, Robert Barry, that they have been removed from office for obstruction of the implementation of the property laws and Annex 7 of the General Framework Agreement for Peace (GFAP) as well as t [...]