22.04.2000
Wolfgang Petritsch, the High Representative of the International Community in B&H, explains why the country has reached a critical moment in its development:Two or three months ago, the four editors of the Sarajevo magazine Dani (Senad Pecanin, Mile Stojic, Nerzuk Curak and the author of this article) presented ten...
21.04.2000
With the final results of the 2000 Municipal Elections now in, the High Representative, Wolfgang Petritsch, would like to congratulate the people of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and their electoral authorities, on the creditable way that this crucial exercise in democracy has been carried out.All the signs are that the peop...
21.04.2000
The Office of the High Representative wishes to remind the public, once again, that the deadline for registration for the privatization process in the RS has been extended to 19 May 2000 in a number of selected places.This will enable a significant number of eligible citizens - in particular displaced persons and refug...
19.04.2000
Ladies and Gentlemen,I thank you for the opportunity of addressing you today. I would like to say from the outset that I believe education - or rather, the establishment of a sound education system - to be at the very heart of the solution we are all looking for in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Without it, the long-term impl...
19.04.2000
This morning, the High Representative, Wolfgang Petritsch, met in Sarajevo with Javier Solana, the EU High Representative for Common Foreign and Security Policy, and Chris Patten, the European Commissioner for External Relations.They discussed current affairs related to the Dayton peace process, such as the municipal e...
18.04.2000
"Contrary to recent press reports, the World Bank does not recommend nor is it aware of any policy that will reduce the actual cash payments pensioners currently receive from the Pension Funds.The World Bank and the Office of the High Representative have been working with the Federation Government on pension reforms to...
18.04.2000
The Office of the High Representative and the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina express their deepest concern over an abusive leaflet that was distributed throughout Livno last week, insulting both the persons and the work of the editor-in-chief of the independent radio station 'Studio N', Frano Mioc, and one of i...
17.04.2000
The Office of the High Representative welcomes the decision by the Government of Republika Srpska to extend the deadline for the registration for the privatization process in the RS until 19 May 2000 in a number of selected places. This will enable a significant number of eligible citizens - in particular displaced per...
16.04.2000
The Office of the High Representative welcomes the appointments of the auditors for the State of Bosnia and Herzegovina by the Parliamentary Assembly this week.Establishing audit institutions, as an independent system of auditing financial activities of all levels of government, is one of the principal elements of inst...
15.04.2000
In the exercise of the powers vested in me by Article 5 of Annex 10 to the General Agreement for Peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina, according to which the High Representative is the final authority in theater regarding interpretation of his mandate; and considering in particular Art. II.1.(d) of the same Agreement, in te...