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Sarajevo, 18 January 2000 The High Representative, Wolfgang Petritsch, has called for problems in Higher Education to be urgently addressed and supports the need to establish a Higher Education Council as recommended in a report made public last week by the World Bank and the Council of Europe at an education round table hosted by the OHR.

Sarajevo, 17 January 2000 The Office of the High Representative would like to make it clear that the recent remarks on the Independent Media Commission, made by various Government officials are wholly unacceptable. The IMC was the first Commission set up under Article II (8) of DPA Annex 10, with wide powers in the media field delegated to it.

Sarajevo, 14 January 2000 The High Representative, Wolfgang Petritsch, this week presided over the first meeting of the new year of the Commission on Public Corporations. Both Entity Prime Ministers, Messrs Bicakcic and Dodik, and the Deputy Prime Minister of the Federation, Mr Covic, attended the meeting, as did Paul Monnory, the Deputy High Repre [...]

Sarajevo, 13 January 2000 The High Representative, Wolfgang Petritsch, met today in Sarajevo with the presidents of Circle 99, the Council of Bosniak Intellectuals, the Croatian National Council and the Serb Civic Council to exchange views on a number of issues. The High Representative, Prof.

Sarajevo, 13 January 2000 The High Representative, Wolfgang Petritsch, yesterday issued a Decision clarifying the Serbian wording of an article in the RS Law on the Implementation of the Decisions of the Commission for Real Property Claims of Displaced Persons and Refugees (CRPC).

Sarajevo, 13 January 2000 The High Representative, Wolfgang Petritsch, warmly welcomes the agreements reached over the last few days on control of the upper airspace of Bosnia and Herzegovina, which will be released for civil use on 27 January 2000. The High Representative congratulates the three Directors General of the BiH Department of Civil Avi [...]

13 January 2000 As a result of the BiH House of Representatives' continued failure to adopt the Law on State Border Service, the High Representative, Wolfgang Petritsch, has decided to impose the required legislation. The High Representative is utterly dissatisfied with the inability and unwillingness of the Serb delegates to the BiH House of Repre [...]

Sarajevo, 06 January 2000 The High Representative, Wolfgang Petritsch, is pleased to announce the appointment of Judge Finn Lynghjem as Deputy High Representative and Head of OHR (South) in Mostar. Judge Lynghjem has had a distinguished career in the Norwegian legal system and has worked closely with international organisations in developing countr [...]

Sarajevo, 05 January 2000 The High Representative, Wolfgang Petritsch, congratulates the new political leadership of the Republic of Croatia on their notable success at the polls. The people of Croatia have clearly expressed their will, through the democratic process, to make a significant change. The High Representative now hopes that the new lead [...]

Sarajevo, 04 January 2000 The High Representative, Wolfgang Petritsch, on Thursday 30th, 1999 extended the temporary suspension of the powers of municipal authorities, in both entities, to re-allocate certain types of socially owned land. The suspension is now in effect until June 30th, 2000. The decision to suspend this right of the municipal auth [...]