25.03.2001
SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina - Just as international engagement in the Balkans has been showing positive results - after 10 hard years and a difficult start - there are growing calls on both sides of the Atlantic to cut that engagement short. Now, with heightened fears of being drawn in between a hazy group of ethnic A...
22.03.2001
Honorable President,Members of the Security Council,I speak to you at a testing time for the hard won peace in the Balkans. The smoke over mountain villages and the angry crackle of gunfire have come back to haunt us in Macedonia and Serbia. The calls for ethnically based division are being sounded once more in mainly...
21.03.2001
In accordance with paragraph 39 of the Brcko Final Arbitral Award of March 5, 1999 and paragraph 3 of the Annex of August 18, 1999; Recalling the Supervisory Order of March 8, 2000 appointing the members of the Interim Government of the Brcko District of Bosnia and Herzegovina; I hereby order, the revocation of th...
20.03.2001
The PIC Steering Board met at the level of Political Directors with the High Representative in Brussels today, March 20th 2001. The Steering Board expresses its satisfaction that new governments are finally in place in Bosnia and Herzegovina, both at the state level and in the two entities. The Steering Board calls upo...
19.03.2001
I address you at a time when the Balkans is back in the headlines and once again ­ all for the wrong reasons. From the outside, it all looks frighteningly messy and horribly complex.Let me assure you that in Bosnia and Herzegovina, thanks to our joint strategic and systematic approach, and despite the occasional un...
19.03.2001
I speak to you at a critical time for the Alliance. European and North American leaders face the specter of war in Macedonia. After 10 years, after all our efforts, all our warnings, there is a horrible sense of déjŕ vu.Another horrific round of brutal ethnic cleansing and massed movements of desperate refugees is...
19.03.2001
He had his chance many times. Many times I was criticised by the International Community, and also by some Croats, because I was late with the decisions which have been passed now. I am sorry, but the time of Jelavic, as a politician, is definitely over. I removed Jelavic because he violated the laws of the state, whic...
17.03.2001
This week Ambassador Gary Matthews has officially left the position of the Supervisor of the Brcko District BIH, which he performed over the last year. Ambassador Matthews is now going to assume responsibilities of the Senior Deputy Special Representative of the UN in Kosovo. The HR Wolfgang Petritsch appointed Gerhard...
14.03.2001
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...
12.03.2001
1 OCTOBER 2000- 23 FEBRUARY 2001 Pursuant to Security Council Resolution 1031 of 15 December 1995, which requested the Secretary General to submit reports from the High Representative in accordance with Annex 10 of the Peace Agreement and the Conclusions of the London Peace Implementation Conference of 8-9 December 199...