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High Representative Acts to Prevent War Criminals Absconding During Trial

17.06.2006

The High Representative, Christian Schwarz-Schilling, yesterday amended provisionsof the Criminal Procedure Code to extend the maximum duration of post-indictment detention from one year to three years for the most serious cases, including war crimes cases.The High Representative issued this Decision following requests...

MPs Who Boycott Parliament Undermine Democracy, Should Be Penalised

16.06.2006

 The High Representative, Christian Schwarz-Schilling, has called for penalties to be imposed on parliamentarians who bring democracy to a halt by walking out of the Parliamentary Assembly.“In normal European countries, there are consequences for parliamentarians who boycott and block the work of their Parliaments...

Chambers Mean Business

16.06.2006

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) have been key drivers of economic recovery in other European countries, and the same can be true inBosnia and Herzegovina."In post-war Germany , as in many other European countries, economic recovery was sec...

Remarks by Head of OHR Mostar Office Anatoly Viktorov

16.06.2006

Conference Organized by the City of Mostar, Association of Municipalities and Cities of the FBiH, Association of Municipalities and Cities of RS, the Congress of Local and Regional Cooperation of Council of Europe and International Peace Centre Sarajevo, with the support from the Danish Refugee Council Ladies and...