Press Archives

09/19/2002

OHR BiH Media Round-up, 19/9/2002
BiH and international legal experts concluded at Wednesday’s round table in Sarajevo that immunity in BiH is a wide concept in terms of the persons it concerns and the acts for which the persons in question invoke immunity. In his opening remarks, the High Representative, Paddy Ashdown, said that “the politics must be an area which ther [...]
09/18/2002

OHR BiH Media Round-up, 18/9/2002
Oslobodjenje (front page story) learns that, during a common dinner in the framework of the European Economic Forum in Salzburg two days ago, an unusual and one would say an incident discussion developed between the BiH Foreign Minister Zlatko Lagumdzija, and Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic. Djindjic reiterated his thesis about “an unst [...]
09/18/2002

Transcript of the Press Conference in Mostar
Good morning, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to yet another press conference of International Organisations seated in Mostar. I am happy to see you in such a big number today. On behalf of the OHR, today we have two brief points for you the first one of which be available to you in writing after the press conference. That point is actually a rem [...]
09/17/2002

Fifth Anniversary of Helicopter Crash
Representatives of the International Community and the BiH authorities on Tuesday attended a memorial service at Prokosko Lake, near Fojnica, on the fifth anniversary of a helicopter crash in which five members of the Office of the High Representative and seven members of the UN mission in BiH were killed.
09/17/2002

OHR BiH Media Round-up, 17/9/2002
Both Oslobodjenje and Dnevni Avaz report on their front pages about an affair in the BiH Federation related to the vaccine for hepatitis B and some other infective diseases. Zlatko Puvacic, the Chief Federation Epidemiologist, says he had just been used as a cover-up for the machinations with the vaccines made by the Federation Health Minister Zelj [...]
09/16/2002

OHR BiH Media Round-up, 16/9/2002
The last year’s attacks on the USA united the world in the fight against terrorism, but it also brought BiH, as the only European country which has a relatively substantial Muslim population, into a situation of having to dispel the prejudices that it (the attacks) had given rise to the “conflict of civilizations”, BiH Foreign Min [...]
09/13/2002

OHR BiH Media Round-up, 13/9/2002
“There is nothing to explain regarding the position towards the RS. This position of mine is well known and has not changed. It has been publicly expressed and confirmed”, Yugoslav President Vojislav Kostunica stated in New York. (Dnevni Avaz, front page and p 3, Vecernje Novosti, p 2, Oslobodjenje, p 6) Blic, p 3,reports that Kostuni [...]
09/12/2002

OHR BiH Media Round-up, 12/9/2002
FRY President Vojislav Kostunica said today in New York that there is no need for strong reactions to his statement about the RS “being a part of the family which is only temporarily separated from Yugoslavia.” “Nothing needs to be explained about our position towards the RS. My view is very well known and has not changed. It was [...]
09/11/2002

OHR BiH Media Round-up, 11/9/2002
At a press conference in Sarajevo, the High Representative, Paddy Ashdown, called voters in BiH to turn up for the elections on October 5 and to give their vote to those politicians and parties who are prepared to implement necessary reforms. According to Ashdown, the following four-year mandate of a new government will definitely decide whether Bi [...]