Press Archives
04/18/2003
OHR BiH Media Round-up, 18/4/2003
Dnevni Avaz front page, pg. 5 ‘A list is being made with names of 25 serious criminals’ – Interview with the High Representative, Paddy Ashdown. “A total of 25 persons from BiH will soon be put on the EU persona non grata list. This is our part of 100 names of the persons, who have been, according to the evidence we posses, involved in organised c [...]
04/17/2003
OHR BiH Media Round-up, 17/4/2003
Oslobodjenje front page, pg. 3 ‘Ivan Vuksic organised a hostage’s crisis in Grude?’, Dnevni Avaz pg. 2 ‘Launching of investigation against Vuksic requested’ – The Sarajevo Canton Prosecution Office has assessed as grounded criminal charges filled last week by the Federation Interior Ministry against the acting FOSS Director Ivan Vuksic. It conseque [...]
04/16/2003
Transcript of the Press Conference in Mostar
Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen and welcome to yet another press conference of the international organizations based in Mostar.
On behalf of the OHR, I have one point regarding yesterday's extraordinary session of the Mostar City Council. This statement will be available in writing.
OHR welcomes yesterday's appointment of the Commission fo [...]
04/16/2003
OHR BiH Media Round-up, 16/4/2003
Oslobodjenje pg. 2 ‘Persons wanted by Serbian authorities have committed crimes in BiH as well’ – Dragan Mektic, the Deputy BiH Security Minister, told journalists on Tuesday that the BiH security officials had informed during their visit to Belgrade their Serbian colleagues about the fact that the Interior Ministries of the BiH Entities had indica [...]
04/15/2003
OHR BiH Media Round-up, 15/4/2003
Oslobodjenje front page, pgs. 4-5 ‘Momo Mandic arrested, Tomo Kovac still wanted’, Dnevni Avaz front page pg. 2 ‘Mandic arrested in Belgrade’ – Momcilo Mandic, a close associate of Radovan Karadzic and the owner of the Manco Company, was arrested in Belgrade late on Sunday, the Serbian Interior Ministry confirmed. A press release issued by the Mini [...]
04/14/2003
OHR BiH Media Round-up, 14/4/2003
Dnevni Avaz front page, pg. 3 ‘Lozancic: I do not trust top public, secret services’ officials’ – Niko Lozancic, the BiH Federation Prime Minister, told the newspaper that his letter sent to the Federation Government, in which he had requested certain steps to be taken against acting Head of FOS Ivan Vuksic and Police Administration Director Zlatko [...]
04/11/2003
OHR BiH Media Round-up, 11/4/2003
Oslobodjenje front page, pg. 5 ‘RS issued warrant for arrest of Radovan Karadzic’, Dnevni Avaz pg. 2 ‘A single army by the end of the year’, mentioned on the front page ‘BiH must have a single army’ – The NATO Secretary General George Robertson said in Sarajevo on Thursday that RS President Dragana Cavic had told him the valid warrant for the arres [...]
04/10/2003
OHR BiH Media Round-up, 10/4/2003
Oslobodjenje front page, pg 7 ‘Eronet bribed CRA with 130,000 euro’, Dnevni Avaz pg. 4 ‘Eronet paid 260,000 KM for the assessment of the license value’ – The Mostar-based Eronet gave a donation of 130,000 euro to the Communication Regulatory Agency (CRA) with a note that the funds might be used exclusively for hiring the independent consulting hous [...]
04/09/2003
Transcript of the Press Conference in Mostar
Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen and welcome to yet another press conference of the international organizations based in Mostar.
On behalf of the OHR, we shall have two statements for you today. The first one pertains to the High Representative's visit to Belgrade where he promotes "Alliance against Mafia." This statement will be available i [...]
04/09/2003
OHR BiH Media Round-up, 9/4/2003
Oslobodjenje front page, pg. 6 ‘Dragan Covic set up the sale of the Soko building’ – The BiH Federation Customs Administration has requested return of 640.000 KM and termination of the contract with the Mostar-based Euro-Consulting company over an illegal sale of a non-functional building of the Mostar-based Soko company to the Federation Customs A [...]