20.01.1998
The Office of the High Representative expresses profound concern over the judgment issued yesterday by the Sarajevo Cantonal Court in the case of Veselin Cancar. Mr. Cancar's conviction on war crimes charges involving the mistreatment of civilian detainees and the murder of a civilian is directly contrary to the Rome A...
18.01.1998
Early this morning the RS National Assembly elected a new Government. As a result, the constitutional crisis that developed in the RS throughout last summer has been resolved through the democratic process. The people of the RS exercised their democratic rights in electing a new National Assembly in November. This has...
16.01.1998
I. INTRODUCTIONBy its resolution 1031 (1995) of 15 December 1995, the Security Council endorsed the appointment of a High Representative and reaffirmed the importance of his role in monitoring the implementation of the Peace Agreement on Bosnia and Herzegovina and giving guidance to and coordinating the activities of t...
12.01.1998
The Bonn Peace Implementation Council has invited the High Representative "to establish a process leading to a decision on a new flag and symbols if the parties cannot agree on their own by 31 December 1997". With the expiration of this deadline, the High Representative announced his intention to establish an independe...
10.01.1998
In the run up to the second Constituent Session of the National Assembly of Republika Srpska, the OHR wou1d like to point again to the following paragraph in the Contact Group Statement given in Washington on 8th January 1998: "The Contact Group urges that a new Prime Minister be confirmed at the next session of the Re...
02.01.1998
On Saturday, 3 January, at 12:00, UNIPTF will host a ceremony in front of the local Brcko police station to mark commencement of the work of the Brcko Multi-Ethnic police. The new multi-ethnic police in Brcko began operation on 31 December 1997 in accordance with the Supervisory order on the formation of a multi-ethnic...
01.01.1998
While the press attention is focused on the new "hot spots", Bosnia is moving on. In a much less spectacular way, but, nevertheless, effective. There has been a turn of the situation in the last four months, comparable only to the cessation of hostilities imposed by the NATO bombers in August 1995. The work of a Spania...
31.12.1997
The High Representative Carlos Westendorp will have to make some huge decisions in 1998, and also to implement the authority given in Bonn, because the International Community wishes to speed up the implementation of the Peace Agreement. It was rather obvious during the visits of British Prime-Minister Blair, US Presid...
31.12.1997
As the Supervisor for Brcko, in accordance with my authority under the Award on the Interim International Supervision in the Brcko area of February 14, 1997, and my Order on Judiciary in the Republika Srpska Municipality of Brcko of October 10, 1997, and the Addendum to that Order dated December 5, 1997, I hereby i...
31.12.1997
The Bonn Peace Implementation Council has invited the High Representative "to establish a process leading to a decision on a new flag and symbols if the parties cannot agree on their own by 31 December 1997". With the imminent expiration of this deadline, the High Representative takes note that no agreement was reached...