22.01.2001
The High Representative, Wolfgang Petritsch, today in Brussels for the first time addressed the Foreign Affairs Committee of the European Parliament and held a meeting with the Coordinator of the Stability Pact, Bodo Hombach.In his speech before the Foreign Affairs Committee of the European Parliament, the High Represe...
19.01.2001
The High Representative, Wolfgang Petritsch, today met the President of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Vojislav Kostunica, to discuss the Dayton peace process in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Also present at the meeting were FRY Foreign Minister Goran Svilanovic and BiH Foreign Minister Jadranko Prlic.Following their me...
18.01.2001
In a letter dated 16 November 2000 and addressed to the High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina, His Excellency Wolfgang Petritsch, the President of the Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Professor Dr. Kasim Begic, invited comments on the constitutionality of the Decision on Amendments to the Law on...
18.01.2001
Ambassador Colin A. Munro, who was appointed the new Deputy High Representative in BiH and the Head of the Regional Office of the High Representative (South) by Ambassador Wolfgang Petritsch last December, took up his duties in Mostar on January 15, 2001. He thus replaced Judge Lynghjem whose mandate on this position e...
15.01.2001
The High Representative, Wolfgang Petritsch, learned with much sorrow over the weekend of the tragic accident near Foca on Saturday, January 13, when a bus slipped off the road into a canyon next to the Bistrica River. Nine passengers, among them several children, lost their lives.The High Representative wishes to expr...
12.01.2001
The High Representative, Wolfgang Petritsch, is concerned by an official statement made yesterday by the BiH Presidency, which puts off naming the Chairman of the Council of Ministers until the BiH House of Peoples is formed.The BiH Presidency spokesman stated that the High Representative supported this position. This...
11.01.2001
The High Representative, Wolfgang Petritsch, today issued a Decision which establishes an essential interim mechanism guaranteeing the means to implement the Constitutional Court's ruling of 30 June and July 1, 2000, in what is now known as the "Constituent Peoples Case".Entity parliaments were required to amend their...
11.01.2001
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...
05.01.2001
The Office of the High Representative notes that an agreement to rebuild the former Secondary School Centre "Jura Mikulic" in Gornji Vakuf was signed today. The agreement, brokered by the OHR’s Senior Education Advisor, Claude Kieffer, and the Special Envoy of the High representative in Bugojno, Ulrich Bucher, wi...
05.01.2001
SRNA, in its report on Brcko, dated 4 January 2001, claims that, according to a plan brought by the Brcko District Government Department for Urbanism, the Arizona Market will not be moved, but rather regulated at its present location by June 2001. SRNA further states that the plan is a part of an order issued by Superv...