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Interview with Miroslav Lajčák in DER SPIEGEL: “Red Line”

13.10.2008

SPIEGEL: Nationalist parties have again claimed victory at the municipal elections in Bosnia. Has the concept of a multiethnic state of Croats, Muslims and Serbs definitely failed?Lajčák: The Dayton Peace Agreement has ended the war, but its philosophy of a multiethnic society is hard to achieve. The election...

Statement by the High Representative

10.10.2008

The political leadership in BiH must stop once for ever with unilateral threats and challenges to the Dayton Peace Agreement and focus instead on European priorities.Proclaiming such things as “RS Sovereignty” or “BiH as State Union” is unacceptable, and will never come to be. Sovereignty is an attribute of States, the...

RECEPTIONIST/ SWITCHBOARD OPERATOR

08.10.2008

DUTY STATION:                 SarajevoGRADE:                                3CON...

Supervisory Order on Fining Members of the Brcko District Government and Directing Measures to be taken by the Brcko District Assembly to Facilitate Adoption of a Budget for Fiscal Year 2009

08.10.2008

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...

Lajčák: European Momentum Is More Powerful than Obstructionist Forces

08.10.2008

Real and rapid progress can be made in EU integration and in addressing social and economic challenges that affect the daily lives of BiH citizens, as long as discussion of political challenges left over from the war is not allowed “to suck all the energy out of the political and legislative process,” High Representati...

Lajčák Reports to the EU's Political and Security Committee in Brussels

07.10.2008

The municipal elections in Bosnia and Herzegovina were free of major incidents, which should now enable political parties to focus their energy on the challenges of EU integration, Lajčák told the Political and Security Committee, a key EU foreign policy body, in Brussels today. However attractive the European per...

Lajčák calls on political parties to return to EU agenda

06.10.2008

High Representative and EU Special Representative Miroslav Lajčák today thanked all those who were involved in the conduct of yesterday’s municipal elections, in particular the many officials, observers and volunteers across Bosnia and Herzegovina, for ensuring that the poll remained free of major incidents. “A lo...