07.07.2000
The High Representative, Wolfgang Petritsch, once again reminds all officials and citizens of Bosnia and Herzegovina that under the BiH Constitution the decisions of the Constitutional Court are final and binding.It is the duty of every official and every government at every level in BiH to accept decisions made by the...
07.07.2000
During the next 18 months there will be a Comprehensive Review of the suitability of all judges and prosecutors in the Federation and Republika Srpska. Any person, regardless of residence, has the right to submit information concerning the unsuitability of a judge or prosecutor. The grounds for unsuitability are as fol...
04.07.2000
The Serious Fraud Office and other leading UK law enforcement and judicial institutions hosted a study visit from June 24-29 by judicial and law enforcement representatives from BiH. The aim of this study visit was to improve the ability of BiH officials to fight more effectively bank fraud and money laundering, which...
04.07.2000
The Office of the High Representative has learnt that the Constitutional Court of BiH has announced a decision interpreting the BiH Constitution in relation to the Constitutions of the Entities.This decision has not yet been issued in writing.The Constitution of BiH states that "the Constitutional Court shall have excl...
30.06.2000
In consultation with the High Representative, I determined that the April 13 Supervisory Order on the Brcko District Financial System should be amended in order to give the Entities a greater role, together with the District, in planning and implementing a number of key aspects of the District Government's program and...
29.06.2000
The Office of the High Representative warmly welcomes the agreement on the future joint use of school buildings in Mostar, which was signed yesterday by Cantonal, City and municipal authorities in Mostar.The Senior Deputy High Representative, Ambassador Dr. Matei Hoffmann, considers this to be, among others, the result...
29.06.2000
The High Representative, Wolfgang Petritsch, has issued a Decision that suspends the application of the Republika Srpska (RS) Law on the Privatisation of State Owned Apartments.This law was enacted by the RS National Assembly and published in the RS Official Gazette on 25 April 2000. Had the High Representative not tak...
29.06.2000
BOSNIA ON THE ROAD TO RECOVERY?Ladies and Gentlemen,I was in Brussels just a month ago and the occasion was the ministerial meeting of the Peace Implementation Council - the supreme body to oversee the implementation of the Dayton Accord. The Declaration adopted on May 24 by the Council was not just another dry communi...
28.06.2000
In accordance with my authority under Annex 10 of the General Framework Agreement for Peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Article XI of the Conclusions of the Peace Implementation Conference held in Bonn on 10 December 1997, I herebyDECIDEArticle 73 of the Law on the Privatisation of State Owned Apartments, that was a...
28.06.2000
The Senior Deputy High Representative, Ambassador Dr. Matei Hoffmann, today presented a new Education for Peace (EFP) project. Present were the Federation Education Minister, Mr Fahrudin Rizvanbegovic, the Federation's Deputy Education Minister, Mr Ivo Miro Jovic, Ambassador Ronald Mayer representing the Foreign Minist...