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During his one day visit to BiH on Friday, the President of Austria, Thomas Klestil, held a number of meetings with senior BiH and international officials. After the talks with members of the BiH Presidency, Klestil stressed that his country, which “energetically lobbied for BiH’s admission to the Council of Europe,” will continue [...]

The High Representative, Wolfgang Petritsch, met in Sarajevo on Wednesday with the representatives of the four political parties from the Republika Srpska to discuss the ongoing constitutional reform in BiH. The attendees at the meeting included the PDP leader, Mladen Ivanic, the SDS President, Dragan Kalinic, Dragutin Ilic (on behalf of the SPRS l [...]

All Sarajevo dailies report that the European Union Commissioner for External Relations, Chris Patten, said in Sarajevo on Thursday following the meeting with the High Representative, Wolfgang Petritsch, that BiH might sign with the EU the Agreement of the Stabilization and Association next year. However, he emphasized, that it was up to the local [...]

All BiH media prominently report that, following the adoption of constitutional amendments by the RS National Assembly on 4 April 2002, the High Representative, Wolfgang Petritsch, on Tuesday met with the Steering Board of the Peace Implementation Council at ambassadorial level in Sarajevo. “The Steering Board expressed its full support for t [...]

The High Representative, Wolfgang Petritsch, told journalists during his Monday’s visit to Stolac that his experts were still assessing the substance of the amendments to the Republika Srpska Constitution adopted by the RS National Assembly last week. Petritsch said he hoped he would be able to inform the Peace Implementation Council’s [...]

BiH marked the 10th anniversary of the outbreak of its 1992-95 war on Saturday with European Commission President Romano Prodi urging Bosnians to put aside differences and make a new start.

At a session held yesterday in Sarajevo, the BiH Council of Ministers discussed the future implementation of the CIPS (Citizens Identity Protection System) project and the difficulties arising from the fact that the state budget for 2002 has not been adopted. The Minister of Treasury, Ante Domazet, told the press that this fact complicates the clos [...]

Dnevni Avaz reports that the deputy BiH Minister of Foreign Trade and Economic Relations, Jadranko Prlic, will, in the coming weeks, form a new political party - Pro-European Peoples Party. According to the daily, the party will be multiethnic, based in Sarajevo and potentially a part of the larger family of the European association of Pro-European [...]