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OHR welcomes the appointment last week of further 133 civil servants following their approval by the Federation Civil Service Agency. At this point over 150 civil servants have been appointed to the City Administration of Mostar.

There has been considerable media debate about executive pardons handed down by politicians to their political cronies. The OHR believes that BiH politicians in executive authority - in the most recent case this applies to Federation President Niko Lozancic - should exercise the right to grant pardons only in very exceptional circumstances. They sh [...]

The arrest of ICTY indictee Milan Lukic is an important step forward in implementing a basic requirement of the DPA - and of BiH's postwar recovery - that all those accused of war crimes appear before the Hague Tribunal.

A recent statement by RS Prime Minister Pero Bukejlovic has gained widespread coverage. In an interview the Prime Minister stated that the RS government had not published the figure of 8,000 victims at the Srebrenica Massacre.

The High Representative has received a Report compiled by the Working Group established at the beginning of this year to examine the level of judicial salaries in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Along with its Report, the Working Group has presented the High Representative with draft State, Entity and District laws that would render judicial salary levels [...]

In his speech to the BiH Parliaments House of Representatives yesterday the High Representative underlined that the over-riding twin strategic objectives have been long established; membership of NATO’s PfP and the launch of formal negotiations on a Stabilisation and Association Agreement - the SAA - with the EU.

On Monday, July 11, 2005 Ministries of Finance in the Federation, Republika Srpska and Brcko District made an announcement, as part of the media campaign, notifying the public that the process of verifying claims for frozen foreign currency savings has begun.

The OHR Economic Newsletter for the second quarter of 2005 is published today. As you know, many of the current macroeconomic indicators for BiH are positive. Exports are rising faster than imports, GDP growth is well above five percent, and investment is increasing.

The High Representative, Paddy Ashdown, will tomorrow visit Srebrenica where he will attend a special meeting of the Foundation of the Srebrenica-Potocari Memorial and Cemetery being held just five days ahead of the ceremony, which will mark ten years since the genocide committed in Srebrenica.