24.11.2000
Due to incorrect press reports relating to Article 143 of the Federation Labour Law, the Office of the High Representative would like to clarify which category of people is entitled to address Cantonal Commissions for the Implementation of Article 143.These are only former employees who applied to their former employer...
24.11.2000
The West's high representative in Bosnia says tough conditions must accompany aid to Balkans. SARAJEVO - The international community must remain engaged with the former Yugoslav states if it wants them to stop fighting among themselves and become prosperous European partners. But it must also back each doll...
24.11.2000
President Mesic, President Chirac, Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen;Only a few weeks ago, not many of us here today thought such a summit was possible. It is fitting that we meet here in Zagreb.I would like to take this opportunity to recognise the lead Croatia has taken in setting a new course -- and new democratic...
23.11.2000
During the period from July (the last release of statistics) to September, the rate of repossessions rose from 21% to 24% in the Federation and from 9% to 10% in the Republika Srpska, and the overall rate for BiH rose from 15% to 18%. The rate of issuance of decisions rose in the Federation from 48% to 51% and in the R...
22.11.2000
The High Representative, Wolfgang Petritsch, today held positive and constructive talks in Sarajevo with the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia's new Foreign Minister, Goran Svilanovic.Building on his visit to Belgrade last month, the High Representative underlined that the establishment of diplomatic relations between FRY...
21.11.2000
On this day, five years ago, the General Framework Agreement for Peace was initialled after weeks of negotiations at the Wright-Patterson airbase in Dayton, Ohio. Whatever the compromises that the DPA brought -- and continues to bring -- the accord saved many lives and the state of Bosnia and Herzegovina. It remains th...
20.11.2000
The Office of the High Representative together with the G. Marshall European Center for Security Studies organized last week a five-day symposium, "The Investigation, Coordination and Prosecution of Crimes of Fraud, Corruption and Transnational Crime: Refining the Process, Enhancing the Results" in Austria for official...
19.11.2000
Madam Chairperson, Secretary General, Your Excellencies,Ambassador Barry has briefed you thoroughly on the November 11th poll so I will limit myself to a few words on the third post-Dayton general elections. But first of all, let me use this occasion to congratulate Ambassador Barry and his staff on the extremely well...
17.11.2000
The Supervisor of Brcko, Ambassador Gary Matthews, issued yesterday, 16 November 2000, an Order on the Arizona Market, following the decision by OHR, OSCE, UNMiBH and SFOR to tackle the problems associated with this market, articulated in the joint statement dated 26 October 2000.The Supervisory Order includes three se...
16.11.2000
SUPERVISORY ORDER ON ARIZONA MARKET In accordance with paragraph 37 of the Brcko Final Award of March 5, 1999, paragraph 8(A) of the Annex of August 18, 1999; Following the commitment of OHR, OSCE, UN and SFOR to regularize trade at the Arizona Market by June 2001 supported by the authorities of the Entities and the Br...