06.08.2002

OHR BiH Media Round-up, 6/8/2002

In Oslobodjenje’s front page article on the High Representative’s decision on the usage of collective centers (the article continued on pages 4-5), Edina Kamenica wrote that, four day following the announcement of the decision, it was obvious from a poll conducted by the newspaper on Monday that the officials authorized for the process of return ei [...]
05.08.2002

OHR BiH Media Round-up, 5/8/2002

The owners of the land and facilities at the Arizona market on Sunday blocked the Tuzla-Orasje road for 15 minutes to express their dissatisfaction with the Brcko District Assembly and Government’s decisions related to the announced expropriation of the private property in the market area. (Oslobodjenje, p 3, Dnevni Avaz, p 2, Jutarnje Novine, p 8) [...]
02.08.2002

OHR BiH Media Round-up, 2/8/2002

The High Representative, Paddy Ashdown, issued on Thursday two Decisions establishing the office of Special Auditor in the Republika Srpska and extending the mandate of the Special Auditor in the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The mandate of the current Federation Special Auditor, Dale Ellen Ralph, has been extended, and Ms Ralph has been ap [...]
01.08.2002

OHR BiH Media Round-up, 1/8/2002

At a joint press conference in Sarajevo, the High Representative, Paddy Ashdown, and the BiH Foreign Minister, Zlatko Lagumdzija, said that BiH citizens at the upcoming election will have a choice between “reforms or a failure”. Ashdown: “Citizens will have a choice: to keep things the way they are, or to implement reforms. By virtue of simply turn [...]
31.07.2002

OHR BiH Media Round-up, 31/7/2002

The High Representative, Paddy Ashdown, addressed on Tuesday deputies in both chambers of the Federation Parliament. Media across BiH note that a good portion of Ashdown’s speech was dedicated to the upcoming elections and the ongoing “dirty pre-election campaign”. Ashdown: “…I have to say I am saddened at the way this [...]
30.07.2002

OHR BiH Media Round-up, 30/7/2002

The Greek government is to donate more than 19 million Euro to BiH as part of a project to support the countries in southeastern Europe. Greek Deputy Foreign Minister Andreas Loverdos and his BiH counterpart Ivica Misic signed in Sarajevo an agreement on the 19.53-million-Euro grant aimed to support modernization of BiH's energy and transport infra [...]
29.07.2002

OHR BiH Media Round-up, 29/7/2002

Oslobodjenje (front page) reports that the BiH Minister of Foreign Trade and Economic Relations, Azra Hadziahmetovic, will on Tuesday in Sarajevo present to the PIC Political Directors the program of economic reform, which will be the basis for building of the economic future in BiH. The program, which was drafted by the Council of Ministers, entit [...]
26.07.2002

OHR BiH Media Round-up, 26/7/2002

The BiH Council of Ministers on Thursday offered to Croatia that an annex to the contract on the common locations of the border crossing between the Bosanska /Srpska Kostajnica – Hrvatska Kostajnica is signed by the authorized representatives of the two countries together with a protocol on the final resolution of the Kostajnica border crossi [...]
25.07.2002

OHR BiH Media Round-up, 25/7/2002

“The High Representative, Paddy Ashdown, will address deputies to the RS National Assembly on Friday, in order to point out at a need for necessary laws stipulating the electric power and economic sectors to be adopted,” OHR Spokesperson Sonja Pastuovic confirmed at a press conference in Banja Luka on Wednesday. (Oslobodjenje – p 4, Dnevni Avaz – p [...]
24.07.2002

OHR BiH Media Round-up, 24/7/2002

Dnevni Avaz (p 2) reports that the judicial and economic reforms are the topics during a new High Representative Paddy Ashdown’s tour through some of the PIC member countries’ capitals. “In the focus of our talks with the political representatives of the PIC member countries will be wider implications of the reforms in the judicia [...]