22.08.2005
I welcome the appointment of a further 133 civil servants in the Mostar City administration last week. They were reemployed strictly in accordance with the CSL and with the proper involvement of the Civil Service Agency. Therefore Mayor Beslic had every right...
20.08.2005
This autumn, parliamentarians will debate new business legislation that will modernise the rulebook for doing business in BiH. The existing Federation, RS & Brcko Laws on Obligations, as good as they are, do not cover all aspects of normal 21st Century business. The new legislation will, for example, regulate the i...
19.08.2005
Sending his condolences to the family of Bojan Prodanovic, the SBS officer who was killed in the incident the High Representative said "we strongly discourage any speculation until the full facts are known". The fatal shooting on Wednesday at the Metaljka border crossing in Eastern Bosnia is no...
18.08.2005
OHR comment on Momcilo Mandic arrestAs you know, Momcilo Mandic was taken into custody by the BiH authorities last night and is being held under a Detention Order granted by the Court of BiH.The OHR would like to commend the various law-enforcement agencies that have taken part in the operation, in Montenegro and BiH,...
17.08.2005
The High Representative, Paddy Ashdown, met yesterday inSarajevo with Professor Hamid Ghodse, the President of the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB). Discussion focused on concerns that current legislation in Bosnia and Herzegovina, which is at the Entity-level only, together with outdated drug control mecha...
17.08.2005
Mostar Civil Servants AppointmentsOHR welcomes the appointment last week of further 133 civil servants following their approval by the Federation Civil Service Agency. At this point over 150 civil servants have been appointed to the City Administration of Mostar. OHR appreciates concern of some political figures...
16.08.2005
Ladies and Gentlemen,In July this year, we observed the tenth anniversary of the massacre at Srebrenica.In November and December we will mark the tenth anniversary of the Dayton-Paris Peace Accords.These anniversaries encapsulate core issues of this conference. Dayton...
16.08.2005
The OHR welcomes the important meeting of government institutions on police restructuring which will take place in Mrakovica tomorrow. It expects senior representatives, with negotiating authority, to attend these talks and to participate constructively in order to advance the process of negotiations on police reform....
16.08.2005
OHR, Mario BrkicOSCE, Mersiha CausevicEUPM, Zinaida IlariaEUFOR, Tom RyallNATO, Dwight Mood OHR Pardons - No One Is Above the Law There has been considerable media debate about executive pardons handed down by politicians to their political cronies.The OHR believes that B...
15.08.2005
The High Representative, Paddy Ashdown, has today written to the President of the BiH Federation, Niko Lozancic, asking Mr Lozancic to clarify media reports that he has granted a pardon to Miroslav Prce, who was sentenced to five years imprisonment in 2004 for misuse of public funds. The High Representative has asked M...