20.09.2000
The Governments of the Republika Srpska, the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Brcko District of Bosnia and Herzegovina, under the auspices of the Supervisor of Brcko, Ambassador Gary Matthews, agreed yesterday evening on a Memorandum of Understanding on the implementation of the arbitration Final Award for...
20.09.2000
The High Representative, Wolfgang Petritsch, warmly welcomes the preliminary results in the investigation into the murder of the late Federation Deputy Minister of the Interior, Jozo Leutar.His Office knew Mr Leutar as a committed and courageous official who worked on combating corruption and advancing the cause of jus...
19.09.2000
The Office of the High Representative would like to remind occupancy right holders that although the general deadline of 6 September, 2000, for purchase of socially owned apartments in the Federation has passed, it did not apply - or another deadline applies - for the following categories of occupancy right holders:...
19.09.2000
Mr. High Representative, your mission has finally moved to an adequate working space. Earlier this is where the front line between those who defended and those who attacked the city was. With your arrival in this country, it has become the highest political watchtower. How does Bosnia-Herzegovina look from this perspec...
15.09.2000
The High Representative, Wolfgang Petritsch, held a series of high level meetings during the United Nations General Assembly in New York to push his three priority issues of refugee returns, economic reform and institution building in Bosnia and Herzegovina.Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov gave the High Representat...
15.09.2000
The Office of the High Representative is stunned by the inability of the BiH Parliament to make any progress on the basic issue of travel documents. Certain members of the House of Representatives of the Parliamentary Assembly of BiH have failed to rise above narrow party political interests by preventing discussion on...
14.09.2000
Sarajevo, September 14, 2000 - The OSCE and OHR would like to take this opportunity to recall the transitional provisions of the Organic Law on the Federation Ombudsmen, which went into effect on September 7, 2000.The current Ombudsmen will continue to perform their duties for a period of at least one year after the en...
14.09.2000
The tragedy of Serbs in the RS is that their politicians are under Milosevic's influenceWolfgang Petritsch, High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina, spoke in his exclusive interview for the jubilee issue of Slobodna Bosna, recorded between Kopaci, Vienna and New York, on dismissals of local politicians, no confi...
14.09.2000
The Office of the High Representative, the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina, the United Nations Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina and the United Nations High Commission for Refugees strongly condemn the car bomb attack on the vehicle of the Head of the OMI Banja Luka (Municipal Section of the RS Ministry of Refug...
12.09.2000
The High Representative, Wolfgang Petritsch, regards the latest attempts by the RS National Assembly to obstruct the work of the current RS Entity Government as highly irresponsible. The High Representative also has serious doubts on whether the attempts of the Assembly to limit the Government's authority are in keepin...