16.06.2005
Ladies and Gentlemen,I’m not going to speak at length, but I would like to make three brief points about BiH banking, about Raiffeisen, and about events such as this one.The banking sector has gone from strength to strength in the last three years – and the impact of this is being felt well beyond today’s gatherin...
16.06.2005
Reforms must be implemented As you know, the High Representative returned last night together with Prime Minister Terzic, from a visit to Brussels, where they held talks with senior EU officials including Enlargement Commissioner Olli Rehn and High Representative for Common Foreign and Security Policy Javier Solan...
14.06.2005
Implementation and Delivery: Making the Single Economic Space a Reality Ladies and Gentlemen,I believe it’s fair to say that the logic of the Single Economic Space is already well understood and accepted by policymakers and citizens.The case no longer has to be made in the abstract. We have roughly four million...
14.06.2005
The High Representative is in Brussels today where this evening he will meet with the European Unions High Representative, Javier Solana and the Commissioner for Enlargement, Olli Rehn. The High Representative will attend these meetings together with BiH Prime Minister Adnan Terzic.The meetings will discuss the current...
14.06.2005
OHR, Oleg MilisicOSCE, Mersiha CausvicEUPM, Vedrana DimitrijevicICTY, Matias HellmanEUFOR, Frank CockburnNATO, Derek Chappell OHRHigh Representative Lobbies For BiH inBrusselsThe High Representative is in Brussels today where this evening he will meet with the European...
10.06.2005
The High Representative, Paddy Ashdown, would like to commend the Mostar City councilors for adopting the 2005 city budget. By adopting the budget the City Council has created a situation in which key conditions about the future of the city can be made and normal services can be maintained.The budget adoption will ensu...
09.06.2005
The High Representative, by way of his Decision, No. 01/02 (“Decision No. 01/02”), removed Nikola Grabovac from public office. Decision No. 01/02 also barred Mr. Grabovac from holding any official, elective or appointive public office, running in elections and holding office within political parties (“Ban”). Decision N...
09.06.2005
The High Representative, Paddy Ashdown, today issued a Decision lifting the prohibition banning two individuals from participation in BiH political life. The prohibition has been lifted in the case of Nikola Grabovac, who was removed by the High Representative on 14 June 2002from his position as Federation Minister of...
08.06.2005
I just want to comment briefly on yesterday’s developments in the Council of Ministers, and as we see it, their significance for what happens in the second half of this year.Two and a half years ago when this government was elected to power, I said that I saw it as my job to work with them to squeeze out of them as muc...
08.06.2005
High Representative Press Conference on BiH Council of MinistersThe composition of the government in Bosnia and Herzegovina is a matter for this country's elected leaders, not the OHR's, but we cannot see how yesterday’s decision will help advance reforms at this key moment in BiH's relations with the Eu...