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Sarajevo, 1 November 1999 On Friday, 29 October, the High Representative, Wolfgang Petritsch, issued a decision ensuring the appropriate treatment of persons who are threatened with deportation, particularly those who are victims of trafficking. This decision, effective immediately, has been necessary because the BiH House of Representatives has tw [...]

The international community welcomes the amendments and instructions to the property legislation in both the Republika Srpska and the Federation and the Law on the Implementation of the Decision of the Commission for Real Property Claims of Displaced Persons and Refugees.

Sarajevo, 27 October 1999 Today, the High Representative, Wolfgang Petritsch, has issued Decisions that amend in both Entities the laws that deal with property rights, and provide instructions on their application. These Decisions harmonize the RS legislation with the Federation legislation and thus create equal rights and remedies for all refugees [...]

Sarajevo, 26 October 1999 The High Representative, Wolfgang Petritsch, today met the chairman of the Founding Board of the new Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Tadej Labernik. The Board chairman informed the High Representative that the Founding Board was preparing the ground for the launch of a public radio-television s [...]

Sarajevo, 22 October 1999 The High Representative, Wolfgang Petritsch, and the Steering Board ambassadors, meeting today in Sarajevo, were outraged to learn of the car bomb attack this morning on Zeljko Kopanja, the Editor-in-Chief of Nezavisne Novine. Mr Kopanja, currently undergoing emergency surgery in Banja Luka hospital, is in critical conditi [...]

Sarajevo, 21 October 1999 Ambassador Robert Barry, Head of the OSCE Mission to BiH and Mr Francois Froment-Meurice, the Chairman of the Election Law Commission, formally presented the draft Election Law to BiH Parliamentary Assembly officials today in Sarajevo, following the Peace Implementation Council's Steering Board approval of the draft in Sar [...]

Sarajevo, 20 October 1999 Today the PIC Steering Board, at the level of political directors, welcomed and endorsed the draft election law for Bosnia and Herzegovina that was drafted under the auspices of national experts, the OHR and the OSCE. The draft law will be presented to Members of the Presidency, the Co-Chairmen and Vice Chairmen of the Cou [...]

Sarajevo, 7 October 1999 OHR condemns in the strongest possible terms the attack yesterday on Mr Munib Hasanovic, the Deputy Municipal Secretary in Srebrenica. Mr Hasanovic was stabbed by masked men in the lavatories of the Srebrenica Municipality building yesterday afternoon.