17.10.1996
The Office of the High Representative has today, Thursday 17 October, witnessed the destruction of property on the site of the Mosque Ferhadija in Banja Luka. The destruction includes the levelling of a house and the removal of trees on the site of the former Mosque. This work is being carried out by the RS authorities...
15.10.1996
Ilija Guzina: welcome to our show.Mr. Bildt: thank you very much.Ilija Guzina: in the last two months you made a lot of remarks about our television. You have had some tough words too. How do you feel tonight among us?Mr. Bildt: I was here a few of months ago, at the beginning of this year and had the possibility of sp...
15.10.1996
Further exploratory discussions on Succession Issues took place at the Office of the High Representative in Brussels on October 14 and 15. Delegations from all five states participated. The discussions were constructive, and will be resumed in three or four weeks time. Precise dates remain to be fixed.
12.10.1996
The recently-formed International Commission on Missing Persons in the former Yugoslavia held its initial meeting in Geneva on October 11 and 12. The Commissioners participating were Commission chairman Cyrus Vance, former U.S. Secretary of State; Lord Carrington, former British Foreign Minister; Robert Badinter, forme...
10.10.1996
Less than a year ago, the most ambitious peace agreement in modern history was concluded at the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio.After 45 months of the most bitter and brutal war on the continent of Europe since 1945 the guns fell silent, and the work on creating a durable peace could begin.The road to t...
09.10.1996
Sarajevo, 9 October 1996The High Representative, Mr Carl Bildt, has submitted to the United Nations Secretary General his third report on his activities in implementing the Peace Agreement. This has now been released in New York as an official Security Council document.Following the certification by the OSCE of the 14t...
05.10.1996
Mr. Presidents,Esteemed Parliamentarians,Dear Guests,Today is an important day in the history of your country - Bosnia and Herzegovina. Today is the first day in the rest of your history.Your country - and the region you are a part of - has a history richer than many other parts of Europe and the world. You have been t...
05.10.1996
Mr. Presidents,Esteemed Parliamentarians,Dear Guests,Today is an important day in the history of your country - Bosnia and Herzegovina. Today is the first day in the rest of your history.Your country - and the region you are a part of - has a history richer than many other parts of Europe and the world. You have been t...
04.10.1996
Within 24 hours of the certification of the nation-wide election results, Bosnia's new three-person presidency met for the first time on Monday. Thus began the process of setting up common institutions for the country and fully implementing the constitution drawn up in the Dayton peace agreement. When news of the meeti...
03.10.1996
After nearly two weeks of intensive efforts by the Office of the High Representative, IFOR, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the UN International Police Task Force (UN IPTF) to stabilize the security situation in Jusici and to facilitate safe returns to the area, we are pleased to announce today that s...