Press Archives

Representatives of eight ruling political parties in the Federation and the RS are to meet later today (Friday) with the High Representative, Wolfgang Petritsch, for talks about the ongoing constitutional changes in the entities. Media in the Federation note that this should be the final meeting of this sort, during which party officials from the t [...]

The BiH Council of Ministers presented on Wednesday the Action Plan on the fight against corruption, which was drafted in a joint effort of the CoM, World Bank and the OHR. "For the first time in history, BiH has a plan of fight against corruption, which was produced in cooperation with international experts and all local institutions," said Azra H [...]

The High Representative, Wolfgang Petritsch, addressed the UN Security Council in New York on Tuesday, his sixth report to the Council since he took up his mandate in BiH in August 1999. He described the progress that has been made in the more than two and a half years since he began his work in BiH, noting that improved cooperation from the author [...]

Chairman of the BiH Presidency Beriz Belkic said that Bosnia-Hercegovina is a sovereign and internationally recognized country, but that it is not fully independent due to the substantial influence of the international community. "The High Representative has the right to impose laws, SFOR commander can dismiss officers and the IPTF Commissioner can [...]

The most recent in the series of meetings about constitutional changes in the Federation and Republika Srpska failed to produce any results. At the talks between representatives of eight ruling parties in BiH which was held on Sunday evening in Sarajevo, there was a general agreement that positions of entity leaders can still not be reconciled or, [...]

In an exclusive statement with Dnevni Avaz, the High Representative, Wolfgang Petritsch, said that, at its session in Brussels on Thursday, the PIC Steering Board had fully accepted a plan of the re-organization of the international community’s engagement in BiH, and that its implementation would start in a few days. "I can now tell for sure [...]

NATO-led peacekeepers on Thursday blocked off a village in an area of southern BiH believed to harbor Bosnian Serb ex-leader and war crimes indictee Radovan Karadzic, a police official said. A heavy contingent of soldiers from BiH's SFOR force cut off all routes leading to the village of Celebici, a police officer in the town of Foca told Reuters b [...]

According to Oslobodjenje, the leaders of the eight leading political parties in BiH again did not succeed to agree on bringing closer their positions related to the implementation of the BiH Constitutional Court’s decision on the constituent peoples at the second meeting in the OHR building in Sarajevo held on Tuesday at an initiative of the [...]