OHR Press Releases

Banja Luka, 25 February 1999 Ambassador Miguel Arias, Deputy High Representative and head of the Regional Office of the OHR in Banja Luka, visited Bihac on 25 February for talks with Canton 1 Governor Mirsad Veladzic and local political leaders. The High Representative Carlos Westendorp and the international community have been increasingly concern [...]

Banja Luka, 25 February 1999 The High Representative condemns last night's incident in which a deputy of the Republika Srpska National Assembly was assaulted. An attack on a democratically elected representative is an attack on the National Assembly and an attack on the democratic process. Such attempts to destabilise the democratic process damages [...]

Sarajevo, 20 February 1999 The High Representative has written to the BiH Presidents, and to the Presidents and Prime Ministers of the two entities, to inform them of his decision regarding the interpretation of Article V(a), Annex 4 of the GPA, in respect of the civilian command over the armed forces. In sovereign states, civilian command authorit [...]

Sarajevo, 19 February 1999 Senior Deputy High Representative Hanns Schumacher met yesterday with the Federation Minister of Justice, Mr Ignatius Dodik, to discuss how to proceed following the Joint Report of the OSCE and the Federation Ombudsmen concerning misallocation of socially owned property in the Municipality of Bugojno. Minister Dodik ackno [...]

Sarajevo, 16 February 1999 HVIDRA, the Bosnian Croat veterans' and invalids' association, yesterday again addressed the international community, this time in the form of an open letter to the High Representative. HVIDRA sees the recent attempted murder of a Croat policeman in Travnik as justification of its position, and takes the opportunity to de [...]

Sarajevo, 12 February 1999 The High Representative today, Friday 12 February, suspended Mr Dzevad Mlaco from the office of Mayor of Bugojno, and all other elected offices in that municipality, until further notice. The decision was taken as a result of a persistent pattern of non-compliance with the letter and spirit of the Dayton Peace Agreement, [...]

The High Representative Carlos Westendorp during his visit to Banja Luka has had discussions about the political situation in the Republika Srpska with political leaders of the SLOGA coalition.

Sarajevo, 9 February 1999 The OSCE and the OHR regret that Mayor Dzevad Mlaco has again chosen to use Dnevni Avaz to attack the work of the Federation Ombudsmen through the Ombudsperson Branka Raguz. In its 8 February 1999 edition, Dnevni Avaz published the headline, "Ombudsperson Branka Raguz is most responsible for the crime in Vrbanja".

Sarajevo, 5 February 1999 The Madrid Conference in December 1998 gave a mandate to the OHR to review fraud and corruption cases in Bosnia and Herzegovina and provide an overall fraud and corruption strategy. Yesterday, in furtherance of this mandate, OHR representatives traveled to Tuzla and met with Cantonal Prosecutor Salcin Daznic and Federation [...]