10.05.2001
The PIC Steering Board met at the level of Political Directors with the High Representative in Sarajevo, 10 May 2001. The Steering Board welcomed the opportunity to meet the members of the Council of Ministers to discuss the new Government's program in a constructive atmosphere on 9 May and supports its proposals to fo...
09.05.2001
The International Community hasn't allowed the establishment of Republika Srpska Krajina and would not allow Jelavic to establish Herceg-Bosna within BiH The last visit of the High Representative to BiH Wolfgang Petritsch to Banja Luka was mainly devoted to discussing economic program...
08.05.2001
Governor Herceg, Dr Mehmedbasic; Mr Muranovic; Ladies and Gentlemen;It is a very great honor to be presented with this award but in some senses, I feel a bit of a fraud, and I certainly need to clarify who I think is receiving this! A fraud, first of all, in the light of all your work here in the Zenica municipality. D...
07.05.2001
I read with much concern Fareed Zakaria's column advocating the redrawing of borders in the Balkans ("Breathing Room in the Balkans," WORLD VIEW, April 2). It will take much more than "a few new chairs" at the United Nations to establish a lasting peace in that region, and changing borders there would be disastrous-as...
07.05.2001
The High Representative, Wolfgang Petritsch, today welcomed the launch of the new PBS and Federation Radio services. The new services are a critical step in the restructuring of the public broadcasting system in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and represent a positive step towards the development of a healthy civil society and...
07.05.2001
The High Representative, Wolfgang Petritsch, is appalled at the outbreak of violence in Banja Luka today, which has been organised to prevent the laying of the corner stone of the Ferhadija Mosque. He urges the RS authorities to bring the situation under control. This is the second time in three days that small groups...
05.05.2001
The High Representative, Wolfgang Petritsch, condemns in the strongest terms today's outbreak of violence in Trebinje before the beginning of a ceremony to lay the cornerstone of the Osman Pasha Mosque. The Special Envoy of the Office of the High Representative to Trebinje, Daniel Ruiz, was injured, and the ceremony ha...
04.05.2001
The Office of the High Representative is pleased with the positive approach taken by the Canton Sarajevo authorities since the Arbitrator, Mr. Justice Sheridan, announced his final and binding decision on the location of the Inter Entity Boundary Line (IEBL) in the Sarajevo suburbs of Dobrinja I and IV.Representatives...
04.05.2001
Prime Minister Ivanic; Ambassador Eliason; Ladies and Gentlemen;Today's railway conference gives me an excellent opportunity to underline my number one priority in Bosnia and Herzegovina: economic reform. It is the country's railways that go to the very heart of the problems we face in trying to bring Bosnia and Herzeg...
03.05.2001
Sarajevo, 3 May 2001 - For the first three months of this year, the number of repossessions rose in the Federation of BiH from 34,634 to 40,366 (from a 29% to a 32% implementation rate), in the Republika Srpska from 15,959 to 17,554 (from 13% to 15%) and in Brcko District from 1,116 to 1,335 (from 14 to 17%). This is a...