OHR-a and PIC statements on police restructuring

Many statements have been made recently with regard the work of the Police Restructuring Commission - the PRC - but let me clarify the facts.
The High Representative in July gave the PRC until the end of the year to identify the operational, financial, constitutional and legislative issues that may at present stand in the way of creating a s [...]

The Political Directors of the Peace Implementation Council Steering Board, meeting in Sarajevo on 23 and 24 September, endorsed the High Representative’s near-term mission-implementation strategy, focusing on helping the BiH authorities to

As you know, the House of Representatives of the Federation Parliament yesterday narrowly rejected the legislation necessary to implement the internal debt plan worked out with the IMF. The plan had already been accepted at the State level and by the RSNA and Brcko District Assembly.

The Police Restructuring Commission will hold its first meeting on Thursday 22 July, in the Common Institutions Building . The mandate of the Commission is to help BiH put in place a police structure that will be effective and efficient and will enforce the rule of law.

The Steering Board acknowledged the legislative steps that have been taken by the BiH authorities in order to fulfill the requirements laid down in the EC’s Feasibility Study, but emphasized that implementation is now key. Among other things, the Steering Board urged the BiH Council of Ministers and Parliament to take specific steps by the end of J [...]

As you will recall, it is two years today since Paddy Ashdown took on the mandate of the High Representative. In his first speech to a plenary session of BiH Parliament the High Representative underlined that his aim was to put BiH irreversibly the on path to statehood and on the road to Europe. He said that the focus of his work would be on ‘Justi [...]