12.07.2002

Speech by Deputy High Representative Patrice Dreiski, Head of OHR’s Economics Department, at the OSCE Working Group on co-ordinating regional efforts to increase transparency and facilitate business

The great nineteenth-century British prime minister and Chancellor of the Exchequer, William Gladstone, once wrote that “finance is the stomach of the country, from which all other organs take their tone.” A century and a half later, the International Community’s High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina, Paddy Ashdown, is [...]
27.06.2002

Speech by Principal Deputy High Representative Donald Hays to UNHCR Working Group

I am pleased to have the opportunity to speak to all of you today about the current situation in BiH. Bosnia is a very special project for all of us. It is a multiethnic country in Europe faced with a three-fold task – first the country itself must design its own national identity; second its people must overcome the horrors of a civil war [...]
24.06.2002

Statement by PDHR Don Hays on the Occasion of OHR Business Forum

We came here today to address the challenges facing businesspeople in BiH and to find ways of overcoming those challenges. Why is this a priority? Because when businesses grow they generate prosperity, they create jobs, they deliver goods and services that help raise living standards. Everybody benefits. The return of refugees to their homes and th [...]