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Senior Deputy High Representative in Brcko

10.09.2002

Senior Deputy High Representative, Ambassador Gerhard Enver Schroembgens visited Brcko District of Bosnia and Herzegovina today for a series of introductory meetings during which the District, its achievements and its challenges were presented. He met the representatives of the District authorities and the OHR Brcko, a...

High Representative Meets FRY Minister for Minorities

09.09.2002

The High Representative, Paddy Ashdown, met FRY Minister for Minorities Rasim Ljajic at the OHR in Sarajevo today.During their one-hour meeting Minister Ljajic briefed the High Representative on efforts by the Yugoslav government to promote refugee return. He said there are around 170,000 BiH refugees still in Yugoslav...

OSCE and OHR call for revalidation review to be completed

05.09.2002

OHR and OSCE wish to express their concern that although revalidation commissions reviewing the legality of revalidations of occupancy rights allocated between 1992 and 1998 have now been formally appointed throughout most of BiH, they have by and large not yet begun to function effectively. In order to facilitate the...

Remarks by Principal Deputy HR Donald Hays at the CPIC Press Conference

05.09.2002

Ladies and Gentlemen,It is one hundred days since Paddy Ashdown took office as the High Representative. He began his tenure with an address to the Parliamentary Assembly of Bosnia and Herzegovina in which he outlined his strategy for helping this country move irreversibly onto the road to statehood within Europe.Paddy...

Opening Remarks of Brcko Supervisor at the regular OHR Brcko press conference

04.09.2002

A very important process is now underway in Brcko District, and I want to be sure that every business in the District is aware of it.  Every company must re-register with the Brcko Court, and every company must obtain a new tax number from the District Revenue Agency, by December 31.  The time to do this is n...

Last Deadline for Property Return Claims

04.09.2002

OHR Brcko encourages the citizens of the Brcko District who have not yet applied for the return of their pre-war property to do so by 31 October 2002. This will be the last deadline in accordance with the new amendments to the Brcko District Law on the Return of Abandoned Properties. Anyone who has not applied for the...