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High Representative Issues Decisions on Special Auditor for the Federation and RS

01.08.2002

 The High Representative, Paddy Ashdown, today issued two Decisions establishing the office of Special Auditor in the Republika Srpska and extending the mandate of the Special Auditor in the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina.The mandate of the current Federation Special Auditor, Dale Ellen Ralph, has been exten...

High Representative Extends Ban on the Allocation of State-Owned Land

31.07.2002

The High Representative, Paddy Ashdown, today issued a Decision extending the ban on the allocation of state-owned land in BiH, first introduced by a Decision of the High Representative on 27 April 2000. The ban is extended until 31 March 2003, or until the enforcement of legislation regulating the issue of state-owned...

Communiqué by the PIC Steering Board

31.07.2002

The Steering Board of the PIC met in Sarajevo on 30-31 July at the level of Political Directors with the High Representative, the first such meeting since the new High Representative took office on 27 May 2002.The Steering Board fully supports the priorities established by Paddy Ashdown:  first justice, then jobs,...

PLIP statistics for June 2002

31.07.2002

The agencies of the Property Legislation Implementation Plan, OHR, UNHCR, OSCE, CRPC and UNMiBH, wish to announce the publication of the Property Legislation Implementation Statistics for the month of June of this year. Since the beginning of this year, the property llegislation implementation ratio has increased by 13...

PDHR Calls on Young People to Take Active Role in BiH Political Life

30.07.2002

The Principal Deputy High Representative, Donald Hays, on Tuesday met with members of the Young Liberals Club. The discussion covered issues affecting youth, including education, employment, emigration of young people from BiH, youth participation in government, and gender representation in public life.Ambassador Hays...

HEAD OF OFFICE; IJC FIELD OFFICE MOSTAR; IJC

30.07.2002

Duty Station:          MostarContract type:       International  THE INDEPENDENT JUDICIAL COMMISSION (IJC)The Independent Judicial Commission (IJC) is the lead agency for the co-ordination of judicial reform in Bosnia and Herzegovina and...

Speech by the High Representative Paddy Ashdown to the Federation Parliament

30.07.2002

May I begin by thanking you for inviting me to address you today, and to engage with you in what I hope will be a frank and uninhibited question and answer session afterwards.This is the third time I have spoken in a legislature since I arrived in Bosnia and Herzegovina just two months ago.  And I look forward to...