01/23/2002

Transcript of the Press Conference in Mostar

Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to the press conference of the international organisations seated in Mostar. Today is a special occasion and I have a special pleasure to introduce to you a new member of the International Community in Mostar. That is Ambassador Thomas Timberman who is the new Head of the OSCE office in Mostar. It is my [...]
01/22/2002

BiH Media Round-up, 22/1/2002

All BiH media announce that the Council of Europe’s Parliamentary Assembly is expected to adopt a resolution recommending the admission of BiH into the oldest European organization in Strasbourg on Tuesday during the second day of its regular January session.
01/21/2002

BiH Media Round-up, 21/1/2002

At an extraordinary session held in Sarajevo on Friday, the BiH Presidency agreed on the draft state Budget for this year, but disagreeing on a part referring to financing the state agent in the process BiH versus FRY before the International Court of Justice in The Hague.
01/18/2002

BiH Media Round-up, 18/1/2002

At a session held on Thursday, the BiH Council of Ministers has adopted a set of measures by which the country will respond to Croatia’s ban on the road transport of crude oil. The Council decided to put a temporary ban on the import of oil and oil derivatives from Croatia and which are transported by roads
01/17/2002

BiH Media Round-up, 17/1/2002

The Croatian government’s ban on the road transport of oil on Croatian territory came into effect on Wednesday, despite Bosnia-Hercegovina demands for it to be scrapped, the deputy minister for foreign trade and economic relations in the BiH Council of Ministers, Seadeta Ceric, told SRNA. Ceric said that the BiH Foreign Ministry issued a dipl [...]
01/16/2002

BiH Media Round-up, 16/1/2002

On midnight Wednesday [16 January] a ban on transporting oil and oil derivatives through Croatia was due to come into effect, but this ban may not be implemented due to a greater regional nature of this matter, Deputy Head of the Federation Customs Administration Hasib Salkic has told Onasa. Salkic emphasised that intense activity can be expected i [...]
01/15/2002

BiH Media Round-up, 15/1/2002

Today's edition of Nezavisne Novine quotes OHR Spokesperson, Alexandra Stiglmayer, as saying that the High Representative expects the local authorities to implement the BiH Constitutional Court ruling on constituent status of all three peoples in BiH by the end of March. When asked whether the information that the High Representative proposed a new [...]
01/14/2002

BiH Media Round-up, 14/1/2002

At a beginning of his first official visit to Great Britain, the chairman of the BiH Council of Ministers, Zlatko Lagumdzija, met with the influential leader of the country’s Liberals and the future High Representative for BiH, Paddy Ashdown, writes Oslobodjenje on its front page. The daily notes that Lagumdzija and Ashdown spent the entire d [...]
01/11/2002

BiH Media Round-up, 11/1/2002

At their regular weekly meeting, which took place on Wednesday, the Principals of the five main international organizations in BiH agreed that it would be advisable for Sefer Halilovic not to re-assume his former position as Minister for Social Affairs, Refugees and Displaced Persons in the Federation Government, before his trial in the Hague takes [...]
01/10/2002

BiH Media Round-up, 10/1/2002

Fena reports that the Social Democratic Party of Bosnia-Hercegovina [SDP] is to table a motion in the Federation Parliament in order to bring the constitution of this entity in line with the decision of the BiH Constitutional Court about the constituent status of peoples throughout the whole territory of Bosnia-Hercegovina