07.10.2010
06/10 On 10 July 2007 the High Representative, in the exercise of his authority under Article V of Annex 10 of the General Framework Agreement for Peace, ordered the seizure of travel documents belonging to certain individuals in order to prevent activities, which were, or which threatened to be, obstructive of the pe...
04.10.2010
The Steering Board of the Peace Implementation Council today congratulated the citizens of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the BiH Central Election Commission for the successful conduct of the general elections held on 3 October. The Peace Implementation Council Ambassadors express the hope that the newly elected officials...
01.10.2010
The no 1 priority for Bosnia and Herzegovina these days is that citizens on Sunday go out and vote. Voting is one of the most powerful tools citizens have to influence their country’s and their own future. “On 3 October, the real power is not with the politicians or the High Representative, but with you, the vote...
30.09.2010
High Representative and EU Special Representative Valentin Inzko today awarded 25-year old Miodrag Jovicic, an economist from northern Bosnia, with the first prize of 1,000 KM for his winning entry to the OHR speech-writing competition launched this summer.BiH citizens aged between 18 and 35 were invited to write a sho...
26.09.2010
BiH leaders must leave the blind alley they have marched into and begin instead telling the European Union more persuasively why Bosnia and Herzegovina should become a member, High Representative and EU Special Representative Valentin Inzko told an international conference in Herzegovina today.The HR/EUSR said in the l...
26.09.2010
Leave the Blind Alley Ladies and Gentlemen,I do not believe I have to list the political steps that Bosnia and Herzegovina must take in order to move to the next stage of European Union integration, which is submitting a formal membership application.The steps are well known to everyone. They are laid out in detai...
24.09.2010
It is “the fundamental obligation of a civilised society to identify and lay to rest the mortal remains of war victims,” High Representative and EU Special Representative Valentin Inzko said during a ceremony in Mostar today.“There is a universe of loss in a single death,” the HR/EUSR said. “By identifying victims and...
24.09.2010
The Fundamental Obligation of a Civilised Society Ladies and Gentlemen,The photographs exhibited here have nothing to do with politics.These pictures are about people.And at the human level there is no dispute. There is no polemic or ambiguity about the scale and the nature of the tragedy that afflicted this count...
22.09.2010
High Representative and EU Special Representative Valentin Inzko today welcomed the new Principal Deputy High Representative, Roderick Moore. Before taking up his appointment as PDHR and Brcko Supervisor, Ambassador Moore served as the first US Ambassador to Montenegro, from December 2007 to August 2010. “Ambassa...
21.09.2010
Bosnia and Herzegovina has the resilience to return to the EU integration path, High Representative and EU Special Representative Valentin Inzko has told members of the European Parliament in Strasbourg, and he has stressed that visa liberalisation will help to galvanise pro-Europe forces in the country.“The role of th...