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Speech by the High Representative Paddy Ashdown to the BiH Parliament

16.07.2002

So.  Here we are again. At the current rate, I am in danger of addressing the BiH State Parliament more often than I used to address my own Parliament back in London!But seriously, I am grateful for this opportunity to speak to you once again, to expand upon the message I brought you a couple of months ago, and to...

High Representative Urges Politicians to Speed Up Reforms on Justice and Jobs

16.07.2002

The High Representative, Paddy Ashdown, addressed a joint session of the BiH House of Representatives and House of Peoples early on Tuesday afternoon and called on parliamentarians to pass necessary laws to promote the rule of law and economic recovery.The High Representative spoke for 15 minutes, and then spent an hou...

High Representative Views Summit as Historic Opportunity

13.07.2002

The High Representative, Paddy Ashdown, today gave his full support to the summit of the heads of state of Croatia, Yugoslavia and Bosnia and Herzegovina, which will take place in Sarajevo on Monday. This is the first such meeting in Sarajevo and represents a historic opportunity to open a new chapter in the relations...

High Representative to Address BiH Parliamentary Assembly

12.07.2002

The High Representative, Paddy Ashdown, will address a session of the BiH Parliamentary Assembly on Tuesday, 16 July. He will also address the RSNA, on 26 July, and the Federation Parliament, on 30 July. This is part of the High Representative’s policy of working through the institutions of this country where pos...

Speech by Deputy High Representative Patrice Dreiski, Head of OHR’s Economics Department, at the OSCE Working Group on co-ordinating regional efforts to increase transparency and facilitate business

12.07.2002

Ladies and Gentlemen,  The great nineteenth-century British prime minister and Chancellor of the Exchequer, William Gladstone, once wrote that “finance is the stomach of the country, from which all other organs take their tone.” A century and a half later, the International Community’s High Repre...