Press Archives
12/06/2002
OHR BiH Media Round-up, 6/12/2002
The International Community is setting up a Task Force to monitor the investigation into the ORAO affair by the RS authorities. The Task Force will be led by SFOR, with the participation of OHR, OSCE and other relevant international authorities. It will have complete access to all relevant documentation and officials and will pursue related inciden [...]
12/05/2002
OHR BiH Media Round-up, 5/12/2002
Nezavisne Novine (p 5) reports that the High Representative, Paddy Ashdown, testified yesterday before the Hague Tribunal in the trial to Radoslav Brdjanin, who is indicted for genocide, crimes against humanity, severe breaches of Geneva convention and violations of customs of war. Ashdown testified on his visit to BiH and detention camps in Manjac [...]
12/04/2002
Transcript of the Press Conference in Mostar
Good day ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to the press conference of the international organizations seated in Mostar.
On behalf of the OHR only three brief issues.
The first one refers to the systematization and rationalization in Herzegovina Neretva Canton, which we mentioned at the last press conference. After his last week's message to the Ca [...]
12/04/2002
OHR BiH Media Round-up, 4/12/2002
All Serb deputies from the RS walked out of the inaugural session of the BiH Parliamentary Assembly’s House of Representatives as a sign of protest over High Representative Paddy Ashdown’s imposition of the law on Council of Ministers by which he ignored regular parliamentary procedures. Before the Serb deputies walked out of the assemb [...]
12/03/2002
OHR BiH Media Round-up, 3/12/2002
High Representative Paddy Ashdown on Monday imposed the new Law on the BiH Council of Ministers in order to establish a government that will implement reforms in BiH and be a partner to the international community. "We have taken important yet measured steps to establish efficient government by protecting all people... and I hope that this will be [...]
12/02/2002
OHR BiH Media Round-up, 2/12/2002
The High Representative, Paddy Ashdown, will in the course of this week impose the Law on the BiH Council of Ministers. According to Chief OHR Spokesman Julian Braithwaite, Ashdown decide to do so in order to help the process of reforms including the establishment and the beginning of the functioning of the BiH Council of Ministers on the basis of [...]
11/29/2002
OHR BiH Media Round-up, 29/11/2002
Avaz pg. 4 ‘Kalinic President, Sefket Hafizovic one of the vice-president’, Oslobodjenje pg. 8 ‘Dragan Kalinic President’, Glas Srpski pg. 3 ‘Kalinic is Speaker again’, Nezavisne Novine pg. 1 & 3 SDS, PDP and SDA support Kalinic’, all RS electronic media, Vecernje Novosti pg.4 ‘Kalinic is speaker aga [...]
11/28/2002
OHR BiH Media Round-up, 28/11/2002
Avaz pg. 4 ‘Rotation to be abolished, and a number of ministries increasing’, Oslobodjenje pg. 6 ‘The rotation principle abolished’, Nezavisne Novine pg. 7 ‘BiH gets nine ministries’, Glas Srpski pg. 3 and SRNA – on continuing talks at OHR in Sarajevo yesterday about the CoM reconstruction. Sefik Dzaferovic [...]
11/27/2002
Transcript of the Press Conference in Mostar
Floor for questions will be open after the presentation of all of our statements. Thank you Mr. Hodzic, and we hope to see you at these press conferences in the future as well.
As for the OHR, the first items refers to the message of the Head of our Office and Deputy High Representative Ambassador Bercot to the Cantonal authorities.
As you know, [...]
11/27/2002
OHR BiH Media Round-up, 27/11/2002
Oslobodjenje pg. 4 ‘More efficient fight against trafficking’ – a statement by UNMIBH Spokesperson, Kirsten Haupt, in a response to the Human Rights Watch report on the involvement of the local and international policemen in organised crime in BiH. Haupt recalled that UNMIBH opened an investigation against 18 IPTF officers who wer [...]