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Lasting Peace Through The Pursuit of Justice

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...

HR/EUSR Welcomes Prospect of NATO MAP

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...

Statement by the Peace Implementation Council Steering Board Ambassadors

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...

A Public Debate about How to Move Forward

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...

Inzko meets Calmy-Rey

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...

Inzko: Candidates Need to Say How They Will Turn the Economy Around

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...

RS Government Special Session A Distasteful Attempt to Question Genocide

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...

Electorate to hold BiH Leaders accountable

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...

Single Economic Space: an Issue on Which the Next Election Should Be Fought

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...