27.05.2002
Holiday Inn, Sarajevo, Friday 24 May 2002Alexandra Stiglmayer, Senior Spokesperson: Hello and thank you for coming to this last press conference by the High Representative Wolfgang Petritsch. As we already are a little bit late, I’ll give the podium to Mr. Petritsch straight away.Wolfgang Petritsch, High Represen...
27.05.2002
A huge burden during my three-years mandate was the fact that former leaders of Bosnian Serbs - Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic - were at large, preventing faster changes in BiH, said outgoing High Representative to BiH Wolfgang Petritsch in the last interview to reporters of domestic media, before leaving the duty o...
26.05.2002
Wolfgang Petritsch, who has been the High Representative in BiH so far, will hand over his office to Lord Paddy Ashdown by an official handover of duty in Sarajevo. In the last week of his mandate Petritsch was talking to Slobodna Dalmacija about things that he made for BiH.Indelible markSlobodna Dalmacija: With what k...
24.05.2002
The High Representative, Wolfgang Petritsch, takes the opportunity to congratulate all those who have contributed to yesterday’s successful unification of football in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The High Representative thanks UEFA and FIFA for their consistent efforts over the last five years to re-unite the football...
24.05.2002
In the exercise of the powers vested in me by Article V of Annex 10 (Agreement on Civilian Implementation of the Peace Settlement) to the General Framework Agreement for Peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina, according to which the High Representative is the final authority in theatre regarding interpretation of the said Agr...
24.05.2002
In the exercise of the powers vested in me by Article V of Annex 10 (Agreement on Civilian Implementation of the Peace Settlement) to the General Framework Agreement for Peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina, according to which the High Representative is the final authority in theatre regarding interpretation of the said Agr...
24.05.2002
In the exercise of the powers vested in me by Article V of Annex 10 (Agreement on Civilian Implementation of the Peace Settlement) to the General Framework Agreement for Peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina, according to which the High Representative is the final authority in theatre regarding interpretation of the said Agr...
24.05.2002
The High Representative, Wolfgang Petritsch, last night issued a package of Decisions providing a legal base for the three public broadcasters of the Public Broadcasting System in Bosnia and Herzegovina. These laws - the Law on the Basis of the Public Broadcasting System and on the Public Broadcasting Service of BiH, t...
24.05.2002
Wolfgang Petritsch, the High Representative of the International Community in BiH, on the occasion of his leaving of this position in which he will be succeeded by well-known British politician Lord Paddy Ashdown is giving a review of his mandate: Billions of Kunas sent from Zagreb disappeared in Hercegovacka Ban...
24.05.2002
23 May 2002COMSFOR; Excellencies; Ambassadors; Ladies and Gentlemen...It is a short farewell address and I hope you will forgive me if I switch to the local language. But please be assured that my words are not only addressed to the citizens of Bosnia and Herzegovina, but also to you - for all the extraordinary h...