28.06.2001
The High Representative, Wolfgang Petritsch, welcomes the decision by the government of Serbia to send Slobodan Milosevic, the former Yugoslav President, to the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in the Hague.This was clearly a very difficult decision for the Serbian Government twelve years to th...
28.06.2001
The High Representative, Wolfgang Petritsch, has removed Ivan Djogic, Chief of the Cabinet of the Interior Ministry of Canton 7, Branka Dadic, Head of the Sector for Legal, Personnel and Administrative Issues within the same Ministry and Zvonko Prskalo , the Deputy Head of the Minis...
28.06.2001
The Office of the High Representative, on Tuesday evening, signed Memoranda of Understanding (MoU) with the Ministers of Finance of the two Entities regarding the calculation and the payment of social contributions and levies for the local staff of the OHR. According to the MoUs, as of July 1st OHR will pay appropriate...
27.06.2001
OHR will not impose the Election Law, because, as Petritsch says, "that has to be done by members of the Parliament and not me"Thanks to the High Representative, Wolfgang Petritsch, our country did not experience one more political and diplomatic slap in the face. After his appeal, the Council of Europe gave an additio...
27.06.2001
After the Brcko District Assembly voted down the draft Law on Education at its 22nd regular session held on 27 June 2001, Brcko Supervisor Henry L. Clarke stated:"I am not surprised that the law was not adopted, but I’m disappointed. We were told by the thirteen councilors proposing the amendment to article nine that t...
27.06.2001
Ambassadors from more than 20 countries assisting the Return process today participated in a helicopter tour of key return sites across Bosnia and Herzegovina. The ambassadors traveled at the invitation of High Representative Wolfgang Petritsch, COMSFOR General Michael L. Dodson and UNHCR Chief of Mission Werner Blatte...
26.06.2001
Bosnia's top peace overseer warned Bosnian Serb leaders on Tuesday to swiftly improve their "scandalous" level of cooperation with the U.N. war crimes tribunal for the former Yugoslavia.Referring to the authorities' failure to arrest suspects sought by The Hague tribunal, Wolfgang Petritsch told Reuters: "This is outra...
26.06.2001
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...
26.06.2001
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...
26.06.2001
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...