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UEFA for Football Play-Offs

11.06.1999

At yesterday's meeting of the Organizing Committee for the 1999 Football Play-Offs the Chair of the Committee Mr. Fahnler of UEFA announced that the game between Velez and Posusje will be played at the stadium in Vrapcici where Velez have been playing during the season.Mr. Fahnler explained that the primary reason for...

Brcko Port Feasibility Study Agreement signed

04.06.1999

Brcko Supervisor and Deputy High Representative, Robert W. Farrand, and United States Regional Commercial Officer, Patrick Hughes, signed today an agreement to initiate a feasibility study of the Brcko port.This agreement constitutes the first step in the tender process for contracting a U.S firm to conduct the study....

International Community Looks Into BH Banka Operations

03.06.1999

Members of the International Community met recently under the auspices of OHR to discuss issues regarding BH Banka's performance. Several members of the International Community, as well as private individuals, have filed both civil and criminal lawsuits against BH Banka because millions of dollars of funds deposited wi...

Decision on the names of geographic locations for use by the Council of Ministers

02.06.1999

In view of the request expressed by the Council of Ministers in its meeting on 25 February 1999, in regards of the Decision of Categorisation of Border Crossings,andIn accordance with my authority under Annex 10 of the General Framework Agreement for Peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina (GFAP) and article XI of the Bonn doc...

Eligibility to Vouchers

31.05.1999

The OHR would like to announce that the question of who is eligible to which category of vouchers (certificates, coupons, claims) in the privatization process in Bosnia and Herzegovina has finally been clarified, with which another major obstacle delaying the privatization process has been removed.A document answering...

The Reconstruction of the Balinovac Mosque in Mostar

28.05.1999

On 27 May, various media houses stated that the reconstruction of the Balinovac Mosque in Municipality South West has not started yet because ROHR(S) and the Municipality South West have failed to give their consent.The Office of the High Representative refutes these provocative accusations. OHR South has stated public...

Decision on Socially-Owned Land

27.05.1999

The High Representative, Carlos Westendorp, yesterday issued a Decision suspending the power of authorities in both Entities to re-allocate and dispose of certain types of socially-owned land.This Decision addresses the wide-spread misuse, re-allocation and sale of socially-owned land that was previously used by people...

Decision suspending the power of local authorities in the Federation and the RS to re-allocate socially-owned land in cases where the land was used on 6 April 1992 for residential, religious, cultural, private agricultural or private business activities

26.05.1999

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 herebyDECIDENotwithstanding the provision of any other law, state property (including former...

Article by the High Representative, Carlos Westendorp:"Lessons Bosnia Taught Us"

19.05.1999

Bosnia is back in the public eye. I have been besieged by international journalists and Western governments alike, all seeking answers basically to two questions: What has the international community gleaned from its experience here? And how can that experience be applied to Kosovo?The first point to make is that while...