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Supervisory Order on the Financial System of the Brcko District

14.04.2000

The Supervisor of Brcko, Robert W. Farrand, issued yesterday, 13 April 2000, an Order regulating the Financial System of the Brcko District. The purpose of this Order is to ensure that the District has full control of its own finances. The Supervisory Order has been sent today, 14 April 2000, to the relevant authoritie...

Decease of Luka Puric

10.04.2000

The Supervisor of Brcko, Robert W. Farrand, and the entire staff of OHR-North have learned today with deep shock and sadness the death of Mr. Luka Puric, Head of the Public Records Department of the interim Government of the Brcko District of Bosnia and Herzegovina.The Supervisor and his staff express sincerest condole...

OHR Presents Draft Federation Forest Law

07.04.2000

Today, the Office of the High Representative formally presented a draft Law on Forests and Forest Land to the Federation Government.At present, the forests of the Federation of BiH, one of the country's most important natural resources, are not being properly managed. The public is thus being robbed of a valuable expor...

OHR(S) Disappointment with the Mostar City Administration Session

06.04.2000

Judge Finn Lynghjem expressed his serious concern and dissatisfaction with today's session of the City Administration when a full commitment on the World Bank Water Project, worth 12 mil. $ was supposed to be made. This did not happen but it was decided, at a time when all deadlines are expiring, to undertake additiona...

OHR and UNMBIH demand resolution of the Zepce problem

05.04.2000

On 3 April 2000, Senior Deputy High Representative Ambassador Dr. Matei Hoffmann and United Nations Special Representative of the Secretary-General Jacques Paul Klein demanded that Zenica-Doboj Canton Prime Minister Vehid Sahinovic establish a specific police and judicial jurisdiction for Zepce municipality in parts of...

Communique by the PIC Steering Board

04.04.2000

The PIC Steering Board met at the level of Political Directors with the High Representative in Sarajevo on 4 April 2000. Preceding the meeting, BiH Minister for Foreign Trade and Economic Relations, Mirsad Kurtovic, Federation Minister of Finance, Dragan Covic, and RS Minister of Finance, Novak Kondic briefed the Steer...