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HR Receives Mostar Petition, Urges Participation in Talks

05.02.2013

The High Representative Valentin Inzko received a delegation from Mostar, which included Mostar Mufti Seid Smajkic, Salem Maric and Arif Fazlic.The High Representative urged all political parties to participate in talks to find a way to implement the BiH Constitutional Court decision relating to Mostar.The High Represe...

High Representative Valentin Inzko visits SIPA

05.02.2013

Statement of High Representative Valentin Inzko after a meeting with Director of the State Investigation and Protection Agency (SIPA) Goran Zubac:I am very happy to be visiting SIPA today and I am encouraged by the enthusiasm and leadership that Director Zubac is providing.Even more impressive are the concrete results...

Flexibility and Political Will Are Needed in Mostar

03.02.2013

A reasonable and broad-based compromise that threatens no constituent people or group can be achieved in Mostar if political leaders show flexibility and political will, Principal Deputy High Representative Roderick Moore wrote in a column that appeared today in Dnevni Avaz today.Such a compromise would end the city’s...

Op-ed by PDHR Roderick Moore: Flexibility and Will – the Missing Ingredients in Mostar

03.02.2013

The latest developments in Mostar, including the recent controversial vote on temporary financing for the City, have yet again exposed why it is so essential that a broad-based political compromise be reached that will bring an end to the current crisis without further delay.We in the international community have watch...

Notice of Decision by the High Representative to Lift the Ban Imposed on Bariša Letica by the High Representative Decision, dated 2 February 1999

02.02.2013

The High Representative, by way of his Decision, dated 2 February 1999 (“the 1999 Decision”), removed Mr.Bariša Letica from his position of Acting Minister of Internal Affairs of Canton 10. This Decision also barred Mr. Leticato hold any public office at any level (“Ban”). The 1999 Decision further provided explicitly...

OHR Condemns Mostar Attack

14.01.2013

In the early hours of Monday morning Mostar was shaken by an explosion outside the City Hall. The OHR is appalled by this attack and condemns the use of violence and appeals today for calm in the City of Mostar, but also across BiH. This violence must not be allowed to spread.The security of every part of BiH must be a...

Entities were established by the Constitution of Bosnia and Herzegovina

10.01.2013

OHR today reacted to factually incorrect assertions regarding the Dayton Peace Agreement and the legal status of Bosnia and Herzegovina and its entities, which were made in the course of the last few days.OHR wishes, once more, to make clear that Bosnia and Herzegovina is not a state union or union of states. Bosnia an...