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Prošlog smo tjedna moja supruga Jane i ja proveli noć kod jedne raseljene bosanske obitelji u njihovu domu blizu Višegrada. Od ljepote predjela zastaje dah. Mjesto se nalazi visoko u planinama odakle se pruža pogled na rijeku Drinu koja teče dolinom nekoliko stotina metara niže. Zajedno s našim domaćinom te noći, obitelji Šetkić, sjedili smo i p [...]

Let me begin by thanking the UNDP and our friend Moises (Venancio- UNDP Resident Representative) for organising this event. The UNDP has formidable experience in governance reform. You see it done best – and worst, all over the world. Here in BiH, you are certainly approaching the subject of governance reform from the right perspective – from tha [...]

The connection between economic theory and practice is a crucial issue, at the heart of the present effort to create a self-sustaining market democracy in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The good news is that today the proportion of good ideas being transformed into sound and useful legislation is increasing substantially. This is because governments are [...]

Prije godinu dana imao sam cast i privilegiju preuzeti du`nost Visokog predstavnika u Bosni i Hercegovini. Tijekom tih godinu dana postigli smo mnogo; ali pred nama je još mnogo toga što treba uraditi. Kada sam poceo raditi ovaj posao, rekao sam da ce moji prioriteti biti pravda i posao.

We are here today to inaugurate a BiH project that is a positive model of how companies in this country can expand successfully – and create new jobs and raise living standards. This information pillar is a small steel computer platform with dedicated software – but it is much much more than the sum of its parts. For one thing, it represents cons [...]

First of all, allow me to commend Prime Minister Mikerevic on his lucid and authoritative presentation this morning. The Prime Minister has spoken about measures that are necessary in order to stimulate investment. It will fall to the Prime Minister and his government to implement these measures - his working day is dominated by the challenge of pu [...]

želio bih započeti, kao i uvijek, izražavajući vam svoju zahvalnost zbog toga što ste me pozvali da nazočim današnjem zasjedanju. Prošli smo kroz nekoliko burnih mjeseci, značajno da se na ovom mjestu pojavim osobno da saslušam vaša mišljenja, a vi moja. Dolazim u pravom trenutku. Okončali smo prvu fazu našeg putovanja i uskoro ćemo započeti no [...]

Thank you for inviting me to the official launch of the “Trans-Adriatic Conference – Interreg IIIA”. Thank you, especially, to Italy and to Foreign Minister Frattini for the strong support you have given to this initiative: and thank you, and congratulations, to BiH, and to Minister Ivanic, for hosting the first conference. The extension to the co [...]

I am delighted to be here at this ceremony, delighted to be able to mark in this way the first few month’s of EUPM’s mission. It scarcely seems four months since EUPM took over where the UN IPTF left off. You have already become such a familiar part of the BiH scene that one sometimes forgets that the mission is still relatively new. The fact tha [...]

My message to the businesspeople in the audience is – more or less – that I have no message. Running companies is something you know how to do – and successful companies are the dynamo of successful economies. Public officials do not make economies prosper; businesspeople do. You do not need me or any other public official – BiH or international – [...]