OHR-a and PIC statements on police restructuring

I'm sure you followed the RSNA closely last night. The OHR is still assessing the contents of the Recommendation adopted late yesterday evening. An initial review suggests that the RSNA has shown a willingness to make progress in the reform. The Directorate will continue to work and progress towards meeting their work plan.
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Steering Board Ambassadors stressed the importance of police reform. It is a key requirement for EU integration. The citizens of this country deserve a fully functional and effective police force.

The focus of the discussion in the Police Directorate yesterday was on the first EC principle of police reform which states that all legislative and budgetary competencies for all police matters must be vested at the State level. This principle was adopted by the RSNA together with the BiH and FBiH legislatures

There has been much discussion and debate on police reform and the work of the Police Directorate during recent days. The Police Directorate’s next meeting is scheduled for tomorrow.

The Political Directors of the Peace Implementation Council Steering Board met inVienna on 15 March, the first such meeting under the chairmanship of the High Representative Dr Christian Schwarz-Schilling since taking office on 31 January 2006.

Let me remind you that the High Representative will today attend the first meeting of the BiH Directorate for Police Restructuring. The Directorate is a technical body made up of BiH police experts, who, under the terms of the political agreement adopted by Entity and State Parliaments, are due to produce an implementation plan by September this ye [...]

As you know, BiH negotiators will today begin talks inSarajevo with representatives of the European Commission on a Stabilisation and Association Agreement. If BiH concludes an agreement - and this could be done as early as the end of this year - it would represent a quantum leap forward in this country's path to full integration with the rest of E [...]

As you know the Political Directors for the PIC Steering Board met in Paris yesterday. Last night they issued their joint communiqué.

The Political Directors of the Peace Implementation Council Steering Board, together with the BiH authorities represented by Presidency Chairman Ivo Miro Jovic, Prime Minister Adnan Terzic, and Foreign Minister Mladen Ivanic, met in Paris on 14 December in extraordinary session, under the chairmanship of Stanislas de Laboulaye, French Political Dir [...]

As you know, the Political Directors of the Peace Implementation Council will meet in Paris on Wednesday, 14 December. The BiH authorities, led by Chairman of the BiH Presidency Ivo Miro Jovic and Chairman of the Council of Ministers Adnan Terzic, will participate in part of the meeting.