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High Representative address EU Political and Security Committee

21.11.2002

The High Representative and European Union Special Representative (EUSR), Paddy Ashdown, today addressed the EU Political and Security Committee in Brussels. The High Representative in his speech stressed the overriding importance of tackling organized crime in BiH and in the region in general. Organized crime now repr...

High Representative and ICTY Chief Prosecutor Joint Statement

19.11.2002

Following their meeting today in the OHR Sarajevo, the High Representative, Paddy Ashdown, and the Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) Carla Del Ponte issued the following joint statement:The Chief Prosecutor of ICTY and the High Representative have agreed that the i...

SPOKESPERSON

18.11.2002

Duty station: Sarajevo Grade: G8PURPOSE AND SCOPE OF THE POSITION The main duties include working in the OHR Press Office in Sarajevo as one of four spokespeople/media officers advising on press policy, dealing with day to day press work, interviews and statements, press conferences, and writing speeches and artic...

Preparatory meeting of the “Bulldozer” Committee

18.11.2002

Principal Deputy High Representative Donald Hays yesterday chaired a meeting with  some of BiH’s most successful business leaders and foreign investors in preparation for the first meeting of the “Bulldozer Committee”, which was launched by the High Representative Paddy Ashdown to dismantle the b...

BiH takes over civil aviation

18.11.2002

The International Standing Committee for Bosnia and Herzegovina yesterday held its last session in Sarajevo, thus effectively handing over its task of monitoring the full normalisation of civil aviation to Bosnia and Herzegovina. During the meeting attended by Azra Hadziahmetovic, the Minister of Foreign Trade and Econ...

Providing of Alternative and Emergency accommodation is a budgetary priority

14.11.2002

On November 5 Senior Deputy High Representative Ambassador Gerhard Enver Schrömbgens sent letters to the Entity Prime Ministers, the Prime Ministers of all Cantons, and to the Mayors of all Municipalities of Bosnia and Herzegovina. These letters urge the BiH authorities to carry out an urgent assessment of, and provide...