OHR related Interviews

The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe has made an important contribution to the Constitutional reform discussion that is going on in Bosnia and Herzegovina at the moment and it underlines that this issue must be addressed as a top priority after the elections. But what is clear is that Constitutional Reform in BiH will require broad s [...]

The formation of the Commission became a big political issue. This is a shame because the real issue at stake is the truth about the fate of those who went missing during the BiH War. I’m sure that the victims’ families and friends would rather have this knowledge than see a thousand Commissions formed. And I hope that this Commission will make a d [...]

In the view of Schwartz-Schilling, the International Community’s High Representative for BiH, the statement made by RS Prime Minister, Milorad Dodik, that everyone should be given the right of self-determination, including RS, does not cause even the slightest dilemma:

Christian Schwarz-Schilling, High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina, yesterday paid his first official visit to Zagreb since becoming the head of the OHR. He met Croatian Prime Minister Ivo Sanader, Parliament Speaker Vladimir Šeks and the Ministers of Maritime Affairs, Tourism, Traffic and Communications and Science, Education and Sports, [...]

The High Representative Christian Schwarz-Schilling is travelling to Zagreb today, where he will meet with highest government officials of the Republic of Croatia. This visit and other current issues, like constitutional reform, the conflict between religious leaders and problems in the functioning of Mostar authorities, were discussed in an interv [...]

Failure to adopt the amendments to the BiH Constitution and problems in police reform are sending a very negative message to the European Union, the High Representative, Christian Schwarz-Schilling, warned.

High Representative Christian Schwarz-Schilling believes that there are better days ahead for decertified police officers.In his interview for «Dnevni Avaz», he pointed out that he found a positive climate in the Security Council, before which he spoke yesterday.

The High Representative Christian Schwarz-Schilling travels to the USA next week, where he is going to meet with representatives of the American administration and international financial organizations, as well as with the UN Secretary-General, Kofi Annan and report to the UN Security Council. We talked to the German diplomat before his departure t [...]

CHRISTIAN SCHWARZ-SCHILLING (76), the new and the last High Representative of the International Community for BiH, who succeed the controversial Lord Paddy Ashdown on 31 January 2006, explains his ambitious plan for political and economical reforms in the country

Among his priorities for the next 12 months, the High Representative, Christian Schwarz-Schilling, includes a more liberal visa regime. He points out that he will talk to the Austrian Chancellor Wolfgang Schuessel very soon, as well as to the EU Ministries of Interior, in order to draw their attention to the issue of freer movement of BiH busines [...]