26.04.2010
The High Representative and EU Special Representative Valentin Inzko said today during a meeting in Sarajevo with ICTY Chief Prosecutor Serge Brammertz that there is a new willingness in the Western Balkans to deal with outstanding issues arising from crimes committed during the conflict of the 1990s and that this can...
26.04.2010
Promoting Dialogue and Mutual Respect among CommunitiesLadies and Gentlemen,I am very pleased to have this opportunity to visit the Islamic Faculty and speak with students and staff. In the recent past, I have had fruitful and inspiring meetings with Catholic and Orthodox theological faculty members, and I have also ha...
23.04.2010
The High Representative and EU Special Representative, Valentin Inzko welcomed the decision of NATO Foreign Ministers at their meeting in Tallinn to invite Bosnia and Herzegovina to start the Membership Action Plan. “This is an important reassurance of security for ordinary people in BiH,” said HR/EUSR Inzko, stressing...
23.04.2010
Meeting today in Sarajevo, the Ambassadors of the Steering Board of the Peace Implementation Council (PIC) urged the authorities in Bosnia and Herzegovina not to take any unilateral action on State and Defense property. Unilateral action would only undermine the prospects for achieving sustainable settlements on these...
23.04.2010
High Representative and EU Special Representative Valentin Inzko held talks yesterday evening with HDZ 1990 President Bozo Ljubic. The meeting was the latest in a series of meetings the HR/EUSR has had with BiH party leaders. “Clearly, party leaders are under a moral obligation to do everything they can to secure progr...
22.04.2010
High Representative and EU Special Representative Valentin Inzko met today in Sarajevo with Swiss Foreign Minister and Chair of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe Micheline Calmy-Rey, who is visiting Bosnia and Herzegovina to monitor implementation by the BiH authorities of the Judgment of the Court of...
21.04.2010
The High Representative and EU Special Representative, Valentin Inzko, met today at the OHR with the President of the BiH Social Democratic Party, Zlatko Lagumdzija. This was the latest in a series of meetings the HR/EUSR has held with party leaders in recent weeks, focusing principally on the forthcoming elections.Dur...
20.04.2010
The RS Government’s conclusions of 19 April are a despicable attempt to question that genocide took place in Srebrenica in July 1995 by deliberately distorting established historical and legal facts, and propagating misinformation and disinformation with the intent to obscure the truth. Although there ha...
13.04.2010
The European Union is committed to “working with the people of Bosnia and Herzegovina so that they can enjoy the same security, prosperity and stability as citizens in the EU,” the High Representative and EU Special Representative, Valentin Inzko, said today, adding that “this process would move ahead much faster if Bi...
09.04.2010
The fractured BiH internal market is directly responsible for unemployment and scandalously widespread poverty, High Representative and EU Special Representative Valentin Inzko told a conference of parliamentarians and economic experts today.The lack of progress in developing the Single Economic Space “has been a major...