24.01.2002

BiH Media Round-up, 24/1/2002

According to Oslobodjenje and Dnevni Avaz, US Ambassador to BiH Clifford Bond told a group of BiH journalists on Wednesday that there had been no pressures from the side of the US Administration on the BiH authorities to hand over six Algerians suspected for involvement in the international terrorism. "In the spirit of a good cooperation in combati [...]
23.01.2002

BiH Media Round-up, 23/1/2002

All BiH media prominently report that, on Tuesday, during the second day of its regular January session in Strasbourg, the Council of Europe’s Parliamentary Assembly recommended the BiH’s admission into the organization. Together with the recommendation to be considered and probably confirmed by the Council’s Committee of Minister [...]
23.01.2002

Transcript of the Press Conference in Mostar

Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to the press conference of the international organisations seated in Mostar. Today is a special occasion and I have a special pleasure to introduce to you a new member of the International Community in Mostar. That is Ambassador Thomas Timberman who is the new Head of the OSCE office in Mostar. It is my [...]
22.01.2002

BiH Media Round-up, 22/1/2002

All BiH media announce that the Council of Europe’s Parliamentary Assembly is expected to adopt a resolution recommending the admission of BiH into the oldest European organization in Strasbourg on Tuesday during the second day of its regular January session.
21.01.2002

BiH Media Round-up, 21/1/2002

At an extraordinary session held in Sarajevo on Friday, the BiH Presidency agreed on the draft state Budget for this year, but disagreeing on a part referring to financing the state agent in the process BiH versus FRY before the International Court of Justice in The Hague.
18.01.2002

BiH Media Round-up, 18/1/2002

At a session held on Thursday, the BiH Council of Ministers has adopted a set of measures by which the country will respond to Croatia’s ban on the road transport of crude oil. The Council decided to put a temporary ban on the import of oil and oil derivatives from Croatia and which are transported by roads
17.01.2002

BiH Media Round-up, 17/1/2002

The Croatian government’s ban on the road transport of oil on Croatian territory came into effect on Wednesday, despite Bosnia-Hercegovina demands for it to be scrapped, the deputy minister for foreign trade and economic relations in the BiH Council of Ministers, Seadeta Ceric, told SRNA. Ceric said that the BiH Foreign Ministry issued a dipl [...]
16.01.2002

BiH Media Round-up, 16/1/2002

On midnight Wednesday [16 January] a ban on transporting oil and oil derivatives through Croatia was due to come into effect, but this ban may not be implemented due to a greater regional nature of this matter, Deputy Head of the Federation Customs Administration Hasib Salkic has told Onasa. Salkic emphasised that intense activity can be expected i [...]
15.01.2002

BiH Media Round-up, 15/1/2002

Today's edition of Nezavisne Novine quotes OHR Spokesperson, Alexandra Stiglmayer, as saying that the High Representative expects the local authorities to implement the BiH Constitutional Court ruling on constituent status of all three peoples in BiH by the end of March. When asked whether the information that the High Representative proposed a new [...]
14.01.2002

BiH Media Round-up, 14/1/2002

At a beginning of his first official visit to Great Britain, the chairman of the BiH Council of Ministers, Zlatko Lagumdzija, met with the influential leader of the country’s Liberals and the future High Representative for BiH, Paddy Ashdown, writes Oslobodjenje on its front page. The daily notes that Lagumdzija and Ashdown spent the entire d [...]