17.02.2009
The acting High Representative, Raffi Gregorian and US Ambassador to BiH, Charles English met today with the Collegium of the BiH House of Representatives and Heads of Caucuses to BiH HoR to discuss the adoption of the proposed amendment of the BiH Council of Ministers for including Brcko in the Constitution of Bosnia...
12.02.2009
“The Council of Ministers has taken an important step towards fulfilling the awards of the Arbitral Tribunal for Brčko which was set up under Annex 2 of Dayton”, Acting High Representative and Brčko Supervisor Raffi Gregorian said welcoming the decision that the BiH Council of Ministers has adopted the proposal for inc...
11.02.2009
Brcko Supervisor, Dr Raffi Gregorian, welcomes today’s formation of authority in Brcko District. He congratulates the newly appointed officials, Mayor of Brcko District Dragan Pajic, Speaker of Brcko District Assembly Mirsad Djapo and Deputy Speaker Ivan Krndelj and stated his expectation that they will perform their d...
11.02.2009
Office of the High Representative is extremely concerned about reports that a Mosque in Višići has been damaged in a fire and calls for the appropriate authorities to investigate this incident as quickly as possible. While it is too early to conclude the investigation, Hercegovina-Neretva Ministry...
11.02.2009
Acting High Representative Raffi Gregorian met today with the three Ombudsmen for Human Rights of BiH, Ivo Bradvica, Jasminka Dzumhur, and Ljubomir Sandic, who were appointed by the BiH Parliamentary Assembly in December 2008. “Issues of human rights are of outmost importance and the purpose of my visit today is to con...
11.02.2009
The Mostar City Council session has adjourned again yesterday without success. By taking this step, the delegates of the Mostar City Assembly have again failed to meet one of their basic obligations to the citizens they have been elected to serve - to elect a mayor.This ongoing failure, over four months after the...
10.02.2009
Acting High Representative Raffi Gregorian expressed his full support for today’s joint EUFOR, NATO and RS Police action against the support network for fugitive ICTY indictee Ratko Mladic. “We have been focusing all our efforts on the Mladic support network in BiH ever since the arrest of Karadzic last summer.&n...
06.02.2009
Supervisor of Brcko District and Acting High Representative Raffi Gregorian has been in consultation with all leading political parties on a draft constitutional amendment on Brcko. He believes this text should be acceptable to all and provides for a solution for Brcko.“The text incorporates all needed technical langua...
06.02.2009
Brcko Supervisor, Dr Raffi Gregorian issued today a Supervisory Order temporarily suspending payments of salaries and remunerations to the councilors of Brcko District Assembly, including the current mayor in technical mandate. Salaries and remunerations to the Brcko District Assembly councilors paid from the Brcko Dis...
06.02.2009
In accordance with the powers vested in me by Paragraphs 8, 10, 11, 13, 36 and 37 of the Final Award, dated March 5, 1999, of the Arbitral Tribunal for Dispute over Inter-Entity Boundary in Brcko Area (“the Brcko Tribunal”); Noting in particular the powers of the Supervisor provided for in Paragraph 24 of the Supp...