31.01.2001
The High Representative, Wolfgang Petritsch, today issued a Decision to remove Radio Television of Republika Srpska from a list of companies scheduled for privatisation. The High Representative holds that RT RS must remain publicly owned to ensure that it is restructured as an effectively run and sustainably funded pub...
30.01.2001
The High Representative, Wolfgang Petritsch, today met with Prof. Dr. Atif Purivatra, Prof Dr. Jusuf Ziga and Prof. Dr. Avdo Sofradija of the Congress of Bosniak Intellectuals.Discussions focused on the current situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina, with a particular accent on issues of concern to the Bosniak community,...
29.01.2001
By boycotting the Federation House of Peoples and a number of Cantonal Assemblies, the Croat leadership is circumventing the responsibilities it has towards its own electorate / More than 24.000 returnees were registered in the Republika Srpska in the year 2000, but the real number appears to be bigger if "spontaneous...
29.01.2001
Letters to the Editor28 January 2001In "Not Happening" (column, Jan. 23), Thomas L. Friedman suggests a soft partition of Bosnia: the Serbian sector under Serbia, the Croatian sector under Croatia, and the Muslim sector as an independent mini-state. This would only allow the nationalists who threw the Balkans into a br...
27.01.2001
Q: The intentions of the Alliance for Changes to take power in the Parliament provoked fierce resistance within the HDZ. How do you explain that? A: I think that is very easily explained: the HDZ is not part of the Alliance and afraid that they will not participate in power. However, I must say that the HDZ is...
27.01.2001
"Matthias Sonn is a high official of the international community, a diplomat with good manners, experience and an accentuated sensibility for the problems of displaced persons. It should not be surprising, considering his family history, namely the fact that his parents were displaced after the World War II. Although h...
27.01.2001
Wolfgang Petritsch, High Representative for BiH, in the exclusive interview for the "Nezavisne novine", states his position on the new RS Government, work of the BiH Presidency, requests of HDZ for forming the third entity, future of the BiH Council of Ministers, as well as on the integration of Bosnia and Herzegovina...
24.01.2001
The High Representative, Wolfgang Petritsch, met yesterday in Sarajevo with Martin Ragu`, the Chair of the BiH Council of Ministers. During the meeting Mr. Raguz provided the High Representative with an update of the Council's recent work, which the High Representative evaluated positively.The two also discussed the st...
23.01.2001
During the month of November, the rate of implementation of property laws in BiH rose from 19% to 20%. In the Federation, the rate has increased to 27% from 25%, and from 11% to 12% in the Republika Srpska. The rate in Brcko has dropped to 14% due to the removal of repossessions of destroyed properties from the statist...
22.01.2001
Ladies and Gentlemen, good afternoon!There is a wide perception ­ and relief - that the various Balkan crises are over. The television crews are leaving Belgrade. You can withdraw cash from bank machines on a Sarajevo street. Slovenia will soon join an expanded European Union. Europe, it seems, can breathe a collec...