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High Representative supports work of PBS BiH Founding Board

26.10.1999

The High Representative, Wolfgang Petritsch, today met the chairman of the Founding Board of the new Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Tadej Labernik.The Board chairman informed the High Representative that the Founding Board was preparing the ground for the launch of a public radio-televisio...

Car bomb attack on Zeljko Kopanja

22.10.1999

The High Representative, Wolfgang Petritsch, and the Steering Board ambassadors, meeting today in Sarajevo, were outraged to learn of the car bomb attack this morning on Zeljko Kopanja, the Editor-in-Chief of Nezavisne Novine.Mr Kopanja, currently undergoing emergency surgery in Banja Luka hospital, is in critical cond...

OHR and OSCE formally present Election Law to BiH Parliament

21.10.1999

Ambassador Robert Barry, Head of the OSCE Mission to BiH and Mr Francois Froment-Meurice, the Chairman of the Election Law Commission, formally presented the draft Election Law to BiH Parliamentary Assembly officials today in Sarajevo, following the Peace Implementation Council's Steering Board approval of the draft in...

Communique by the PIC Steering Board

20.10.1999

The PIC Steering Board at the level of Political Directors met in Sarajevo on October 20, 1999, with the High Representative and the OSCE Head of Mission.The Steering Board welcomed and endorsed the draft election law for Bosnia and Herzegovina that was drafted under the auspices of national experts, the OHR and the OS...

Press Release by the PIC Steering Bord on the Draft Election Law for BiH

20.10.1999

Today the PIC Steering Board, at the level of political directors, welcomed and endorsed the draft election law for Bosnia and Herzegovina that was drafted under the auspices of national experts, the OHR and the OSCE.The draft law will be presented to Members of the Presidency, the Co-Chairmen and Vice Chairmen of the...

OHR and OSCE Mission Launch Media Law Initiative

14.10.1999

The Office of the High Representative (OHR) and the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina announced today the initiation of an effort designed to assist the State and Entity governments of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) in drafting Freedom of Information and Defamation legislation.On July 30, 1999, former High Represent...