13.04.2004
The latest property law implementation statistics show that the overall property law implementation ratio in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) remains at 93 percent. The Property Law Implementation agencies, which include the Office of the High Representatives, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)...
13.04.2004
Floods in Central Bosnia The High Representative Paddy Ashdown is traveling to the region around Travnik right now to assess the flooding that hit this region and express his support for the people and the local civil protection agencies that are dealing with the flooding. Further details available fro...
13.04.2004
Everyone agrees that this country needs less bureaucracy and to find a way to reduce the layers of government, but a way also needs to be found to provide the citizens of this country with a greater voice in government. It is clear that one can have too much of the first, while not having enough of the second.The essen...
13.04.2004
Ladies and Gentlemen,It is accepted wisdom that when waiters and taxi-drivers begin giving you stock tips it’s time to get out of the market. There’s probably some truth in that.When share trading assumes the kind of characteristics we more normally associate with a lottery, the market is erring on the side of “unnatur...
12.04.2004
5 April 2004RS Radio: You have just arrived from a meeting with the RS leadership and EU Ambassadors to BiH. I think that conditions for European integration were the main issue. Probably, there was some kind of agreement with the RS leadership on that?Paddy Ashdown: It was not a meeting designed to reach agreement. It...
08.04.2004
The OHR notes that the BiH institutions seem to be getting more serious about the impending deadlines for the passage of key reforms relating to the 16 pre-requirements set by the European Commission for the start of negotiations on a Stability and Association Agreement.This week the BiH House of Peoples, at the reques...
08.04.2004
His Holiness PavleThe Archbishop of PecMetropolitan of Belgrade and Karlovacand Serbian Patriarch 7 April 2004 I am writing to express my deepest condolences in respect of the serious incident last week, in which Father Jeremija Starovlah, and his son Aleksandar, were injured. The International Communit...
07.04.2004
Ladies and Gentlemen,Just five years ago there was no system to speak of that supported SMEs in BiH. The whole orientation of economic policy, such as it was at that time, was based on a hopeless attempt to resurrect the old industrial conglomerates that were the centerpiece of the socialist economy of former Yug...
07.04.2004
The Confidence Building Measures Committee (CBMC) is an advisory body, set up under the High Representative’s Decision on restructuring of the City of Mostar and established by Ambassador Werner Wnendt, the High Representative’s Special Envoy for Mostar on April 2, 2004.Besides the guarantees built into the new Statute...
07.04.2004
Following SFOR’s action in Pale, Paddy Ashdown warns the authorities of the Republika SrpskaI will have to take action against the RS authorities, because I have been thinking, for some time now, what steps to take, so that the whole of BiH does not have to suffer and risk its chance to join the Partnership for Peace –...