29.07.2004

OHR’s Statement at the International Agency’s Joint Press Conference in Mostar

Yesterday, the RSNA adopted the Law on Public Enterprises, and successfully completed the first reading of the Law on Investment of Public Funds. These two laws are part of the five-law reform package that the three prime ministers endorsed at the end of last year after the Special Auditor uncovered a huge amount of fraud and incompetence in BiH pu [...]
27.07.2004

OHR’s Statement at the International Agency’s Joint Press Conference

As announced, the High Representative is in Banja Luka today. This morning he visited the Banja Luka Health Centre’s Casualty Department, meeting patients and health workers. This crucial department treats more than 120 patients per day, many of whom are in critical or life threatening conditions. Despite this, the Casualty Department’s staff work [...]
21.07.2004

OHR’s Statement at the International Agency’s Joint Press Conference in Mostar

I will use this opportunity to inform you of the High Representative’s activities related to the Old Bridge Opening Ceremony. On Thursday, July 22 the High Representative will participate as one of the speakers at the Mostar 2004 Symposium organized by the Mostar Fund. We will have more details on how journalists will be able to get details on [...]
20.07.2004

OHR’s Statement at the International Agency’s Joint Press Conference

The Police Restructuring Commission will hold its first meeting on Thursday 22 July, in the Common Institutions Building. The mandate of the Commission is to help BiH put in place a police structure that will be effective and efficient and will enforce the rule of law. The Recent European Union Functional Review found BiH’s police forces to be [...]
13.07.2004

OHR’s Statement at the International Agency’s Joint Press Conference

NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer andJavier Solana, the Secretary General of the Council of the EU and High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy, will visit Sarajevo on Thursday for talks with the BiH Presidency and Council of Ministers and representatives of the International Community, including High Representative [...]
06.07.2004

OHR’s Statement at the International Agency’s Joint Press Conference

The High Representative, Paddy Ashdown, will visit Banja Luka tomorrow. He will visit the "Dom zdravlja Banja Luka" (Health Centre) and its Casualty Department, where he'll meet medical staff whose salaries are four months in arrears. More then 120 patients are treated in Casualty each day, and the facility has been "temporarily" located in the bas [...]
05.07.2004

Press Conference: High Representative To Give Police Restructuring Commission Its Mandate

The goal of this Commission is clear: to help BiH put in place a police structure that will be effective, efficient, and enforce the rule of law Let me be blunt. At the moment, organised crime has the upper hand in this country. BiH’s police forces are divided, over-staffed, under-resourced, and can’t even operate across the IEBL; however, BiH’s c [...]