22.02.2001
The High Representative, Wolfgang Petritsch, welcomes the formation of the new Council of Ministers, which was voted in today by the BiH House of Representatives.More than three months after the elections, it is high time the state government was established. The High Representative hopes that the new Council of Minist...
21.02.2001
The High Representative, Wolfgang Petritsch, today in Belgrade met with the President of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Vojislav Kostunica. This was a follow up meeting to President Kostunica's visit to Bosnia and Herzegovina on January 19th. The meeting was also attended by an RS delegation including RS Vice-Pres...
20.02.2001
Letters to the EditorIt is always useful to read criticism of our work here in Bosnia and Herzegovina but Stephen Schwartząs op-ed piece in The Wall Street Journal Europe ("The Great Balkan Botch-UP", Feb.15) was neither constructive nor informative.Our humanitarian efforts here are anything but "colonial". Calls...
20.02.2001
The High Representative, Wolfgang Petritsch, yesterday met with Prime Minister designate Professor Bozidar Matic, who presented his provisional cabinet. The High Representative took note of the list of ministers and once again highlighted to Professor Mati} the importance and urgency to form a new government.The High R...
20.02.2001
The Senior Deputy High Representative, Matthias Sonn, welcomes the results of his meeting with the Inter-Religious Council yesterday, at which the inclusion of the subject of "culture of religion" - as it is called presently - in the school curricula used in Bosnia and Herzegovina was discussed.The four religious leade...
19.02.2001
Sarajevo, 19 February 2001 ­ OHR, UNHCR, OSCE, UNMIBH and CRPC have consolidated the results of the efforts to monitor property law implementation throughout BiH during the year 2000, the first full year of property law implementation. As of 31 December, the rate of implementation (the total number of repossessions...
19.02.2001
The High Representative, Wolfgang Petritsch, welcomes Georges Bordet to his position of Deputy High Representative and Head of the OHR Regional Office in Banja Luka. Mr. Bordet has taken up his duties today.Mr. Bordet's career with the Canadian armed forces includes extensive experience in peacekeeping missions in Cypr...
17.02.2001
Supervisory Order on the Use of Land in Arizona Market In accordance with paragraphs 36 and 37 of the Brcko Final Award of March 5, 1999, paragraph 3 of the Annex of August 18, 1999 and Articles 70 and 71 of the Statute of the Brcko District of Bosnia and Herzegovina; In furtherance of the Supervisory Order dated Novem...
17.02.2001
Brcko, February 17, 2001 - As a further step in regulating the Arizona Market’s legal status within the authority of the Brcko District Government and in furtherance of the Supervisory Order dated November 16, 2000 on Arizona Market, the Supervisor of Brcko District Ambassador Gary L. Matthews issues the Supervisory Or...
17.02.2001
The High Representative, Wolfgang Petritsch, is disappointed by the groundless refusal of the outgoing Speaker of the Federation House of Peoples, Niko Lozancic, to convene the constitutive session of the Federation House of Peoples.In an open letter to the High Representative and the Head of Mission of the OSCE, Rober...