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Two officers from the High Representative Paddy Ashdown’s office in the middle of the election campaign attempted to force (persuade) Munir Munja Alibabic (the removed FOSS Director) to join a campaign of discrediting the SDP BiH leader, Zlatko Lagumdzija, said an Oslobodjenje front-page story written by Azhar Kalamujic (story continued on p [...]

The High Representative, Paddy Ashdown, addressed journalists in Sarajevo on Thursday upon his return from Brussels where he had discussed the political and security situation in BiH with the top EU and NATO officials. Ashdown emphasized that both EU and NATO were fully supporting the initiated reforms and particularly the reforms of the Council of [...]

The High Representative, Paddy Ashdown, and the former SFOR Commander, John Sylvester, informed in Brussels on Wednesday the EU Political and Security Committee and the Nort Atlantic Council on the current situation in BiH with particular regard to the Orao affair. “There must be a full public enquiry, with the necessary input from the state, [...]

A ban on arms imports and exports will be in force in BiH until a control mechanism at the level of the state of BiH in this sphere is established, BiH Minister of Foreign Trade Azra Hadziahmetovic announced on Tuesday after a meeting with Principal Deputy High Representative Donald Hays and OSCE Mission Head Robert Beecroft. Hadziahmetovic told a [...]

The Republika Srpska Supreme Defence Council late on Monday accepted the resignation of Minister of Defence Slobodan Bilic and relieved of duty the chief of the RS Army General Staff, General Novica Simic, because of illegal arms exports, SRNA has learnt from the Supreme Defence Council. At a two-hour session in Banja Luka, the Council considered t [...]

The High Representative, Paddy Ashdown, on Sunday outlined the steps that the RS and BiH authorities must take following revelations that the Bijeljina based “ORAO” aviation company was trading arms with Iraq, breaching both the Dayton Peace Agreement and UN Security Council Resolutions. At the Press Conference in Sarajevo, the High Rep [...]

The BiH Presidency asked on Thursday RS President, Mirko Sarovic, RS NA Speaker, Dragan Kalinic, and the RS Prime Minister, Mladen Ivanic, to undertake all necessary measures in the next 24 hours to punish those responsible for the violation of the embargo and the UN and [UN] Security Council resolutions on the export of military equipment and arm [...]