02.09.1996
Carl Bildt arrives at NATO headquarters on 8 July for meetings with Secretary General Solana and to attend a session of the Council with NATO and Cooperation Partner Ambassadors.(NATO Photo 46Kb)Arriving in Sarajevo at the end of last year to take up his duties as High Representative, Carl Bildt had to act quickly to s...
01.09.1996
As the designated final authority regarding interpretation of the civilian aspects of the Peace Agreement, the Legal Department of the Office of the High Representative (OHR) recently prepared an opinion on the question whether or not property legislation applicable in Bosnia and Herzegovina is in compliance with the D...
27.08.1996
STATEMENTBY CARL BILDT, HIGH REPRESENTATIVESarajevo, 27 August 1996The Provisional Election Commission has today decided that it does not consider it feasible to hold municipal elections in Bosnia and Herzegovina on September 14.At the same time, it has reaffirmed its commitment to the holding of the national, entity a...
08.08.1996
In the General Framework Agreement for Peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Federation and the Republika Srpska agreed to binding arbitration of the disputed portion of the Inter-Entity Boundary Line in the Brcko area. In accordance with the General Framework Agreement, the Federation appointed Professor Sadikovic and...
02.08.1996
Can it work? This is by far the most frequently asked question about the peace process in Bosnia. And can the countries contributing to the IFOR peace implementation force count on their troops leaving at the end of the the ear? The record after almost eight months of implementing the peace accord agreed at Dayton is a...
22.07.1996
George Soros has done a great deal of good for Bosnia through his Foundation. But he makes the mistake of shooting at the pianist when he expresses his anger that implementation of the Dayton Peace Agreement has not yet brought Mr. Karadzic to the Hague. I was hoodwinked by Karadzic, he says, when Karadzic handed over...
10.07.1996
ContentsIntroductionInstitutional Aspects Office of the High RepresentativeICFY Working GroupsPeace Implementation CouncilCoordination of Civilian ImplementationOverall coordinationOperational coordinationEconomic reconstructionPreparations for ElectionsFreedom of movementReturn of refugees and displaced personsMissing...
30.06.1996
STATEMENTBY CARL BILDT, HIGH REPRESENTATIVESarajevo, 30 June 1996An official document of Republika Srpska under which Mr. Karadzic is replaced as functioning President by Ms. Biljana Plavsic has been handed to me. The document is signed and sealed by Mr. Karadzic. It takes legal effect from today. There are no conditio...
25.06.1996
Sarajevo, 25 June 1996For the second week in a row, Republika Srpska Prime Minister Gojko Klickovic failed to turn up at the meeting of the Joint Interim Commission this afternoon. This was in spite of explicit undertakings to come and in spite of the time and place of the meeting being agreed. This refusal to attend a...
25.06.1996
STATEMENTby the High Representative, Carl BildtSarajevo, 25 June 1996I warmly welcome the decision by OSCE Chairman-in-Office Mr. Flavio Cotti to certify national elections in Bosnia and Herzegovina on September 14.Elections will pave the way for setting up the common institutions of the country forseen in the Peace Ag...