07.05.1999
"Do you have any KM?""How am I supposed to have any, I work for a Zagreb paper?!""Yes, but you live here. Listen, first time I see you with one KM, I will have your picture put onto it. Besides, KM has already become the strongest currency in the region. This morning, the exchange rate was 1:12.5 in proportion to Serb...
07.05.1999
Who do you see responsible for the previous events in the RS - the SDS, the Radicals? I do not know, I think those are mostly the Radicals.What do you intend to do about it? Except for removal of the RS Presidency, I have no intention to flame up the situation additionally, or to give the pretext t...
07.05.1999
JANUARY - MARCH 1999Pursuant to Security Council Resolution 1031 of 15 December 1995, which requested the Secretary General to submit reports from the High Representative in accordance with Annex 10 of the Peace Agreement and the Conclusions of the London Peace Implementation Conference of 8-9 December 1995, I here...
07.05.1999
In reference to the letter written by the Association of Expelled Mostarians, signed by Mr. Milan Jovicic and addressed to Mr Westendorp, the High Representative, which openly criticised the work of OHR South in Mostar in respect of the returns process, we would like to state the following.During the past 18 months, ne...
06.05.1999
After two years in this country, I would not like to become a part of the problem, but a solution to them. This is one of motives in my intention to leave this country and this position. There are, of course, personal reasons for this. I do not think it is good to be separated from the family for so long. Although I ma...
06.05.1999
Vous ętes le haut-représentant de la communauté internationale en Bosnie-Herzégovine. Quelles sont, d'aprčs vous, les répercussions des événements du Kosovo en Bosnie-Herzégovine ? Elles sont grandes, sur tous les plans. Au niveau des réfugiés d'abord. Depuis le début des frappes, 40 000...
29.04.1999
Effective immediately, the High Representative Carlos Westendorp has removed Ferid Hodzic, the Interior Minister of the Tuzla-Podrinje Canton (TPK, Canton 3), from office for failure to support the rule of law and fulfill the duties of his office.Mr. Hodzic has directly interfered with several ongoing investigations in...
29.04.1999
Mr. Ferid HodzicMinister of InteriorTuzla CantonOn repeated occasions you have systematically impeded the application of the Rule of Law in Tuzla Canton on repeated occasions. Such activities include:You directly interfered with the Cantonal and Federal Police investigation of Mr.Izet Hadzic's allegations. You used you...
29.04.1999
Today, Principal Deputy High Representative Jacques Paul Klein met with the Interior Ministers and their deputies of both Entities, as well as of all Cantons in the Federation, to discuss technical and implementation details of the new Common Driving License.The meeting was held in a friendly and constructive atmospher...
29.04.1999
Among the conditions which Bosnia and Herzegovina must satisfy before it can become a member of the Council of Europe, one of the most important is that the Entities respect and implement the decisions of the Human Rights Chamber.The largest number of Chamber decisions so far, over 100, relate to military apartments. T...