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The High Representative for BiH, former leader of the British liberals and peace mediator, Paddy Ashdown, has been in Sarajevo since May, and, as it seems, he is trying to keep up the pace with the speed of reforms that should be implemented in Bosnia and Herzegovina in the forthcoming period. Ashdown spoke to Slobodna Dalmacija about that, but als [...]

The International Community has its favourites only in theory, not in practice. These are persons who believe in reforms, a free market, investments that contribute to the wellbeing of people in this country. This is our theoretic concept and we now observe candidates and monitor as to who fits best into the developed profile. However, we do not v [...]

BiH has the lowest inflation rate, that is, it has the most stable currency, we have freedom of movement and elections are taking place in peace. Much more has been achieved here in six years than in the Northern Ireland in 30 years…

If things with the IMF do not finish as they should, everything could burst like a soap bubble, warns Ashdown. “I am here to ask them not to lose patience. BiH made commitments which she has to live up to.” High Representative Paddy Ashdown and Governor of the Central Bank of Bosnia and Herzegovina Peter Nicholl yesterday flew to Washi [...]

"In the RS, BiH as well as in the Balkans we have not created a single economic and civic space. However we have a single criminal space which works regardless of borders. This is a regional problem which has to be tackled at the regional level, because this is a threat to every country in the Balkans", said the High Representative for BiH, Paddy A [...]

: I am happy to be back in BiH. I am impressed by the changes for the better in Sarajevo and I think that every day you should remind yourselves of that. Sarajevo, however, is not BiH. The situation outside of this city, which nowadays has started to look like any other European city, is much more difficult, there are places where obstruction of th [...]

A huge burden during my three-years mandate was the fact that former leaders of Bosnian Serbs - Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic - were at large, preventing faster changes in BiH, said outgoing High Representative to BiH Wolfgang Petritsch in the last interview to reporters of domestic media, before leaving the duty on May 27.

Wolfgang Petritsch, who has been the High Representative in BiH so far, will hand over his office to Lord Paddy Ashdown by an official handover of duty in Sarajevo. In the last week of his mandate Petritsch was talking to Slobodna Dalmacija about things that he made for BiH.

Wolfgang Petritsch, the High Representative of the International Community in BiH, on the occasion of his leaving of this position in which he will be succeeded by well-known British politician Lord Paddy Ashdown is giving a review of his mandate: Billions of Kunas sent from Zagreb disappeared in Hercegovacka Banka

I would assess the past three years as a great success that should be credited not to myself but primarily to my partners from the International Community as well as the Alliance. The indicted war criminals at large, the third GSM operator and non-implemented economic reforms are the three biggest failures which the outgoing High Representative for [...]