16.02.2007
Chaos reigns in higher education throughout Bosnia and Herzegovina, and even after students have endured the mismanagement of the university system, their qualifications are not recognised outside the country because the authorities here have failed to meet their international obligations in respect to the accreditatio...
16.02.2007
"Time to End Higher Education Chaos"A large number of readers will be painfully familiar with the shortcomings of higher education in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Just last week nearly 300 graduates from two private faculties in Republika Srpska had their degrees annulled because the Education Ministry concluded that the pr...
15.02.2007
The ICG Report Ensuring Bosnia’s future: A New International Engagement Strategy is one of a large number of advocacy pieces that have been published in the lead-up to the Peace Implementation Council Steering Board meeting on 26 February.The analysis and conclusions are at odds with the recommendations, and the report...
15.02.2007
In the exercise of the powers vested in the High Representative by Article V of Annex 10 (Agreement on Civilian Implementation of the Peace Settlement) to the General Framework Agreement for Peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina, according to which the High Representative is the final authority in theatre regarding interpret...
15.02.2007
The High Representative, Christian Schwarz-Schilling, today issued a Decision extending the mandate of the BiH Commission for the Review of Decisions on Naturalisation of Foreign Citizens for one year, to16 February 2008. The Commission’s mandate was due to expire at the end of the week.The Off...
15.02.2007
High Representative Extends Naturalisation Review Commission Mandate The High Representative, Christian Schwarz-Schilling, has extended the mandate of the BiH Commission for the Review of Decisions on Naturalisation of Foreign Citizens for one year.The High Representative was obliged to make this move because the...
15.02.2007
After nearly three years of discussion, an agreement on police reform is within reach and it would be tragic to waste this opportunity, Principal Deputy High Representative Raffi Gregorian wrote in a newspaper column published today.In the article, which appeared in Republika Srpska’s best selling daily Euroblic,Mr Gre...
15.02.2007
Wasting Opportunity Would Be TragicJust three years ago, defence reform in Bosnia and Herzegovina was considered impossible. To get constructive discussion underway it was necessary to overcome a great deal of fear and misinformation. The prospects for rea...
14.02.2007
The Directorate's Report provides a good basis for discussion and agreement – it is unclear what RS leaders mean when they say that Entity Police must remainThe second most senior ranked official of the Office of the High Representative and experienced American diplomat, Raffi Gregorian, believes that the BiH politicia...
13.02.2007
In accordance with the powers vested in me by paragraphs 8, 10, 11, 13, 36 and 37 of the Final Award of March 5, 1999 of the Arbitral Tribunal for the Dispute over the Inter-Entity Boundary in the Brcko Area (“the Final Award”); Recalling the Law on Audit of Financial Operation of the Institutions of Brcko Di...