14.02.2000
Dear Ladies and Gentlemen, your Excellencies,I would like to welcome you all to the Bosnia and Herzegovina Anti-Corruption and Transparency conference, and express my great pleasure to see so many representatives from all parts of public life: members of the Presidency, ministers and members of parliaments, members of...
11.02.2000
The High Representative and Foreign Minister Picula noted the historic importance of the Foreign Minister's visit to Sarajevo, given the fundamental role of the Republic of Croatia at the Dayton and Paris Peace Conferences and in the years since those pivotal events. In light of this, both observed that it was particul...
10.02.2000
Today, OHR hosted a conference on ways to tackle trafficking in drugs and other drugs-related offences in Bosnia and Herzegovina.The conference was attended by the relevant ministers from both entities, as well as State level ministers, together with BiH police experts, and experts from the United Nations Drug Control...
10.02.2000
UNESCO and OHR co-hosted a successful symposium on curriculum reform in BiH on 7 and 8 February 2000, Sarajevo. It was attended by the team of experts from the University of Heidelberg who produced the initial UNESCO-sponsored report on the curricula of the "national" subjects in BiH, experts from Switzerland, Norway,...
09.02.2000
Wolfgang Petritsch, aujourd'hui Haut représentant en Bosnie, fut également le négociateur européen aux pourparlers de Rambouillet, qui débutčrent il y a un an, le 6 février 1999, échoučrent en mars et débouchčrent finalement sur le bombardement de la Yougoslavie par l'Otan. Or M. Petritsch vient de publi...
09.02.2000
Quatre ans aprčs Dayton, oů on est Sarajevo ? Le Haut représentant de la communauté internationale en Bosnie estime que "Dayton fut un grand succčs pour arręter la guerre. En temps de paix, ce n'est pas l'instrument idéal"Wolfgang Petritsch est depuis aoűt dernier le Haut représentant de la com...
09.02.2000
OHR and OSCE warmly welcome the Republika Srpska National Assembly's decision yesterday to adopt a Law establishing a multi-ethnic Ombudsman Institution in the RS.The new permanent Ombudsman Institution will investigate violations of human rights and maladministration in the RS, and make recommendations for positive ch...
09.02.2000
Wolfgang Petritsch: We had a very long and very intense, but I also believe a very productive meeting of the Steering Board Political Directors, which is, as you know, a meeting about every four to six weeks in order to discuss pertinent issues that are before us on the table mostly in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina....
08.02.2000
The PIC Steering Board met at the level of Political Directors with the High Representative in Brussels on 8 February 2000. The Steering Board welcomed and fully endorsed the High Representative's increased emphasis on accelerating privatization and stimulating private sector development in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and...
08.02.2000
In view of the confusion in some press reports regarding the role and functions of the Multi-ethnic Housing Commission, the Supervisor of Brcko reiterates his commitment to the established Procedure for Returns to Brcko. This procedure has been in place since April 1997 and will continue, based on the property laws of...