28.01.2022
High Representative Christian Schmidt briefed a delegation of the UK parliamentary Foreign Affairs Committee on the complexity of the current political situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Schmidt expressed gratitude for UK's continued support to the forward-looking reform process in BiH and the engagement of the inter...
27.01.2022
High Representative Christian Schmidt met in Berlin with David Beasley, Executive Director of the UN World Food Programme (Nobel Peace Prize Winner 2020). They exchanged views on the global food situation, as well as experiences concerning legal deficits and corruption in some states and how the international community...
26.01.2022
High Representative Christian Schmidt briefed members of the Committee on European Union Affairs of the German Bundestag on the current situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Following today’s discussion in Berlin, the High Representative and the Chairman of the Committee, Anton Hofreiter, issued the following statement:...
21.01.2022
In his first visit to Brčko in 2022, PDHR/Supervisor Scanlan cited the period ahead as one in which Brčko District Administration has the opportunity to demonstrate that the District is not only an example of peaceful coexistence but one of shared prosperity. Spring is when a decision on the highway routes will be m...
14.01.2022
High Representative Christian Schmidt condemns the growing use of inflammatory rhetoric and increase of incidents that lead to destabilization of peace and security over the last days in several parts of BiH: “Aggressive rhetoric and action, from any source, that calls for violence or evokes the dark imagery of war ra...
14.01.2022
"Bosnia and Herzegovina is facing a serious crisis. Political stakeholders in the country, in particular the RS leadership, have the responsibility to de-escalate the current political tensions, particularly by desisting from attempted rollbacks and other actions aimed at undermining and destabilizing the State, ending...
12.01.2022
On 11 January, Principal Deputy High Representative and Brčko District Supervisor Michael Scanlan met with NATO HQ Sarajevo Commander, Brigadier General Pamela McGaha to discuss the current state of the affairs in BiH and Brcko District in particular. PDHR/Supervisor Scanlan stressed that the District is an example...
11.01.2022
The High Representative, Christian Schmidt, extended his sincere condolences today to the European Parliament on the death of the Parliament’s President, David Sassoli. “Mr. Sassoli was a passionate European and a strong voice for democracy who steered the European Parliament through the very difficult circumstances re...
10.01.2022
The High Representative deplores the RS authorities’ continued disregard for the final and binding decisions of the BiH Constitutional Court, which established that the designation of 9 January as RS Day is incompatible with the BiH Constitution. Republika Srpska as a part of Bosnia and Herzegovina is fully entitled...
05.01.2022
The decision of the United States to designate Milorad Dodik, the BiH Serb member of the Bosnia and Herzegovina Presidency, and one entity associated with Dodik, Alternativna Televizija (ATV), under the recently issued Western Balkans Executive Order, in light of their destabilizing activities and corruption, is a logi...