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The High Representative is on the second day of a two day visit to Kuwait, where he aims to encourage donations to the Foundation of Srebrenica-Potocari Memorial and Cemetery, and to promote BiH as an investment location. In the course of the day he will be meeting with Crown Prince H.H. Sheikh Saad Abdullah Al-Salim Al-Sabah and the Prime Ministe [...]

The High Representative is increasingly concerned that progress in meeting requirements for the EC's Feasibility Study and PfP are too slow. While there is broad support for the ultimate goals that these reforms will achieve, there appears to be a lack of understanding that the process itself -- and the reforms that are put in place as a result -- [...]

The OHR is calling on the Council of Ministers to meet their own deadline for implementing this requirement of the EC's Feasibility Study, and adopt adequate state-level public broadcasting legislation at their session on Thursday. The OHR regrets that Mr Dokic considers being asked to meet the requirements of European integration as blackmail an [...]

Yesterday the High Representative underlined what is becoming ever more evident; the BiH authorities are missing many of their self imposed deadlines for the start of a Stabilisation and Association agreement, and many of the real deadlines which would make BiH a serious candidate for PfP membership at NATO’s summit in Istanbul this summer.

Tomorrow The Principal Deputy High Representative, Donald Hays, Federation Prime Minister Ahmet Hadzipasic, RS Prime Minister Dragan Mikerevic and Brcko Mayor Branko Damjanac will take part in an event in Jajce on Wednesday during which representatives of the Bulldozer Emergency Reform Units and the Chairs of the Bulldozer Committees will review th [...]

The High Representative will be in Washington on Friday for meetings with US Secretary of State Colin Powell and Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. The High Representative will use these meetings to underline the progress that Bosnia and Herzegovina has made in specific reform areas with a focus on achieving Partnership for Peace membership and me [...]

The High Representative, Paddy Ashdown, arrives in New York today on the first leg of a weeklong tour in which he will be meeting the most senior officials at the UN, and in the US and UK governments. While in New York the High Representative will meet UN Secretary General Kofi Annan and the UN undersecretary for peacekeeping operations, Jean Mari [...]

As you know, the High Representative is in Mostar this morning, where he is delivering the keynote address at the International Investors’ Conference being held in the city. The High Representative will argue the case for international and domestic investment in BiH’s future and he will warn against any return to the "politics of the past", which c [...]

The OHR regrets that the governing coalition has not yet agreed on a candidate for BiH Minister of Defence. It is almost March, yet the BiH authorities have failed to fulfill the first and most basic requirement for Partnership for Peace membership thereby putting at risk the longterm security of every citizen of this country. The BiH authorities h [...]

The OHR welcomed yesterday the signature of a joint declaration by all the parties represented in the BiH House of Representatives in which they pledge their readiness to find consensus in order to achieve membership of the European Union and NATO's Partnership for Peace.