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RS Government Finally Meets Its Obligations

04.10.2005

Having examined the report presented to the Office of the High Representative on Friday 30 September the High Representative recognizes that the RS Government has finally complied with the HR's requirements as set out in his decision. Finally, the RS Government has taken its obligations seriously, and ha...

Transcript of the International Agencies' Joint Press Conference

04.10.2005

OHR, Oleg Milisic EUPM, Alun Roberts OSCE, Aida Besic EUFOR, Lt Cdr Jem Thomas NATO, Derek Chappell  OHR RS Government Finally Meets Its ObligationsHaving examined the report presented to the Office of the High Representative last Friday the OHR is ready today to confirm that the RS Government has fin...

Milosevic's Courthouse Propaganda

30.09.2005

The context in which a video showing Paddy Ashdown handling weapons that was aired during the trial of former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milisevic at the ICTY yesterday has deliberately been misrepresented.The videos in question were taken during a visit Lord Ashdown made to Yugoslavia in September,...

High Representative Satisfied with Minister Matijasevic Response

30.09.2005

The High Representative received a letter today from RS Minister of Interior Darko Matijasevic in response to a letter sent to the Minister on 21 September, in which the High Representative asked him to provide an explanation for the reasons behind a press conference held by the RS Policy in Pale on 9 September.While t...

Statement: BiH Courts Capacity To Try War Crimes Confirmed

29.09.2005

OHR welcomes the transfer, announced today, of Radovan Stanković from the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) to the BiH Court's War Crimes Chamber. This is the first case, under Rule 11bis, that the ICTY has referred to the jurisdiction of a domestic court in one of the countries of t...

High Representative Appoints Georg Halbach as International Prosecutor

29.09.2005

The High Representative, Paddy Ashdown, has re-appointed Georg Halbach , effective immediately, as an International Prosecutor to the Special Department for Organised Crime, Economic Crime and Corruption in the Prosecutor’s Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Decision Appointing Manfred Dauster to Section I for War Crimes of the Criminal and Appellate Divisions and to Section II for Organised Crime, Economic Crime and Corruption of the Criminal and Appellate Divisions of the Court of BiH

29.09.2005

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...