08.05.2013
The High Representative, Valentin Inzko, met today in Sarajevo with the Turkish Minister of Foreign Affairs Ahmet Davutoğlu.The High Representative thanked Minister Davutoğlu for Turkey’s strong commitment to BiH’s stability and development, as well as the Minister’s own personal engagement. In this regard Hi...
08.05.2013
In accordance with his mandate under the Dayton Peace Agreement, High Representative Valentine Inzko submitted a Report to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon on 30 April outlining the status of peace implementation in Bosnia and Herzegovina, identifying challenges and explaining the strategy which the International Commu...
08.05.2013
27 October 2012 – 20 April 2013SummaryThis report covers the period from 27 October 2012 to 20 April 2013. The previous report detailed how, following an encouraging start to 2012, with politicians engaging in dialogue and reaching agreement on a Council of Ministers, budget and key EU legislation, progress had stalled...
07.05.2013
Without in any way prejudging the outcome of the ongoing investigation into President Budimir the High Representative, Valentin Inzko, today welcomed the readiness of the police officials, prosecutors and judges to tackle corruption at the highest levels and to take action against senior officials and politicians.“It i...
30.04.2013
By Sanja Bjelica-ŠagovnovićThe High Representative Valentin Inzko, commenting on the arrest of FBiH President Živko Budimir, warns that it is important for everyone to avoid speculation while the investigative process is ongoing, along with any prognoses on the outcome of the political situation.Dnevni list: There...
24.04.2013
I am pleased to announce that we have made a breakthrough today – after trying for four years to get the parties to reach agreement.The President and two Vice-Presidents of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina (FBiH) and the Collegium of the House of Peoples have committed to take steps that will begin the process...
17.04.2013
The High Representative wrote to FBiH leaders yesterday to invite them to discuss solutions in the process of appointment of the judges to the FBiH Constitutional Court. When they met under OHR auspices on 3 April, the High Representative undertook to organize a second meeting once the participants, the actors responsi...
16.04.2013
The OHR has been informed that the construction of a church in Budak/Dugo Polje in the municipality of Srebrenica resumed today. High Representative Valentin Inzko is deeply disturbed by this development. “I wholeheartedly support the right to worship and have personally helped the construction of churches for Orthodox...
16.04.2013
During their meeting in Sarajevo today, High Representative Valentin Inzko and Chair of the BiH Presidency Nebojsa Radmanovic discussed a number of upcoming regional and international activities, including Chair Radmanovic’s forthcoming trip to Austria, BiH’s biggest investor, which will be devoted to economic issues a...
15.04.2013
High Representative Valentin Inzko expressed his full support for the work of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) during a meeting with its Chief Prosecutor Serge Brammertz in Sarajevo today.“The ICTY has given a voice to the victims where once they might have gone unheard”, the High Re...