07.03.1997
At the invitation of the High Representative, Mr Carl Bildt, and of the Government of Austria, representatives of Canada, France, Italy, Germany, the European Union Presidency (Netherlands), the European Commission, Japan, the OIC (Turkey), the Russian Federation, the UK and the USA held an extraordinary meeting of the...
07.03.1997
STATEMENTby the High Representative, Carl BildtVienna, 7 March 1997I warmly welcome Bill Farrand to the OHR team as my Deputy and Supervisor for Brcko. He is a vastly experienced Foreign Service Officer and brings all of the right qualities to this very important job.
07.03.1997
Press Release on Municipal Elections by the Steering Board of the Peace Implementation CouncilThe Peace Implementation Council Steering Board believes the holding of internationally supervised municipal elections is of fundamental importance to the consolidation of long-term peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina.The Steering...
07.03.1997
Welcome. My Name is Carl Bildt. I am the High Representative. Assistant Secretary Kornblum, you probably know as well. The person you might not yet know is Ambassador Robert W. Farrand from the United States whom I have today, with the support I can say of the Steering Board, appointed as Deputy and Supervisor for the...
06.03.1997
STATEMENTby the High Representative, Carl BildtVienna, 6 March 1997I welcome the announcement today by the Chairman-in-Office of the OSCE to defer the municipal elections in Bosnia and Herzegovina until September 1997.I as well as my Steering Board have consistently stressed the quality aspects of the local elections.T...
01.03.1997
On the day Bosnia celebrates its independence, I send my best wishes to all Bosniacs, Serbs, Croats and Others from Bosnia and Herzegovina.Bosnia and Herzegovina has come a long way from the dark days of war, but there is still a long way to go before we can be sure that peace has been entrenched for good. I congratula...
26.02.1997
Very briefly on the Steering Board. We have been reviewing a number of issues. We had plans quite some time back to have a review of the arms control issues, so we had General Eide who is in charge of overseeing the arms control aspects of the agreement here, and we are concerned with the slow progress. But we were at...
19.02.1997
CARL BILDT:I am here in Brussels today for two reasons. First I have been briefing the NAC just now, and then we will have a meeting of the Steering Board during the afternoon. It has been, of course, primarily concerning the Brcko Arbitration award and the efforts now under way to start the implementation of it....
18.02.1997
STATEMENT by the High Representative, Carl BildtToday, we are also announcing some changes on our economic side , following up the strengthening of the role of the OHR in this area decided at the London conference. New Deputy HR for Economic issues will be Mr. Claud Ganz. He has a distingui...
14.02.1997
ARBITRAL TRIBUNAL FOR DISPUTE OVER INTER-ENTITY BOUNDARY IN BRCKO AREA Arbitration for the Brcko Area ____________________________________ The Republika Srpska v. The Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina ___________________________________ AWARD Appearances: For the Republika Srpska: Mr. Nikola Kos...