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Interview: Wolfgang Petritsch, the High Representative in BiH

19.07.2001

Education has to be a national priority, to the same extent that economic recovery and refugee return are national priorities - and of course, an efficiently organized and properly delivered school curriculum will support economic recovery and refugee return. So we need commitment at the highest levels of government, a...

High Representative introduces new fora for political partnership

19.07.2001

The High Representative, Wolfgang Petritsch, today launched an initiative aimed at enhancing the level of co-operation between the new Council of Ministers, the civil society in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the High Representative himself. The High Representative proposes to set up a Partnership Forum at which the Counci...

High Representative welcomes the Formation of new Council of Ministers

18.07.2001

The High Representative, Wolfgang Petritsch, welcomes the formation of a new Council of Ministers, with Zlatko Lagumdzija as its chairman and Ante Domazet as Treasury Minister, approved by the BiH House of Representatives today.The High Representative trusts that the new Council of Ministers will immediately turn its a...

Memorandum of Understanding on Common Strategy for Fire-fighting signed in Mostar

17.07.2001

Witnessed by the Deputy High Representative, Ambassador Colin Munro and representatives of BiH Council of Ministers, BiH Federation and RS ministries, a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on Regional Fire-Fighting Strategy was signed today in Mostar between representatives of SFOR, Dubrovnik county from Croatia, municip...

Decision giving approval to the amended RS Law on Apartment Privatisation

17.07.2001

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...

Further amending the Law on the Privatization of State Owned Apartments

17.07.2001

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...