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High Representative to Bosnia-Herzegovina Paddy Ashdown on Tuesday asked the Chairman of the BiH Council of Minister (CoM), Adnan Terzic, to ensure that the that the Draft Law on Intelligence and Security Agency be sent by the Council of Ministers into parliamentary procedure without delay.

Contrary to my previous trips to Western capitals, this time I did not have to explain and convince some interlocutors that Bosnia and Herzegovina was not a black hole and that changes for better were obvious. It shows that this country has made great progress, and the majority of Foreign Affairs ministers and the majority of the people in the mini [...]

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I’m extremely pleased and enthusiastic about this activity. Of course none of us is going to be completely satisfied with the results nor should any citizen of BiH be satisfied with incremental change. However, the Bulldozer Process is original (a “made-in-BiH” product) and has proved to be amazingly effective. It has given businesspeople in this [...]

Main problems are in the areas of economy and the rule of law. BiH must undergo serious reforms in the fields of fight against the crime and corruption. A lot of funds go into hands of criminals instead teachers, pensioners, health workers and other vulnerable social groups. In order to combat this you need a reform of judiciary which is able to su [...]

After somewhat more than three hours of discussions with the Prime Ministers of both Entities and the State, Paddy Ashdown was satisfied with what he heard from his collocutors when it comes to efforts to bridge the differences over the decision-making mechanisms, headquarters of the ITA and its mode of operation at the state level. - If we had m [...]

The European Stability Institute (ESI) Report on the work of the Office of the High Representative is intellectually and factually unsustainable, says the High Representative, Paddy Ashdown. What is said in the report, says Ashdown, OHR is already implementing in BiH.

At the end of April, the OHR’s Senior Deputy High Representative, Gerhard Enver Schrömbgens, delivered to the members of the Commission tasked with drafting the Statute of Mostar a letter signed by Paddy Ashdown containing eight principles representing the basis upon which that Commission is to re-organise Mostar. The deadline for the Commissions r [...]

It is a good question and I will reply to it. First of all, I would like to say that I welcome the constructive tone of these statements. When I first arrived in this country I said I was interested in actions and not in words and indeed I want to emphasise that these are good words, now I am waiting for the appropriate actions. One thing that Mr T [...]

We have to be honest and clear and say that that no one, and even the international community, is infallible. What I can say with certainty is that no mistake, in any segment, was made deliberately. The tensions you mention were caused by those who should have taken care of the interests of BiH citizens, and Croats as well, rather than embarked o [...]