OHR related Interviews

WITH THE ARRIVAL of Christian Schwarz-Schilling as the High Representative of the International Community to Bosnia and Herzegovina, the assumption was that the draconian “Bonn powers” will become a part of BiHs history. However, after the German political veteran visited Brussels the threat of the powers, which allow for the imposition of laws, re [...]

The High Representative to BiH, Christian Schwarz-Schilling, in an interview for “Dnevni avaz” says he thinks that it is hardly likely for the current state system in Bosnia and Herzegovina, based on municipalities, cantons, two Entities, one district and a weak central government, to pull the country out of economic crisis and lead it towards the [...]

Christian Scwarz-Schillling, former German minister, mediator and businessman, emphasized in his first interview that he would base his work, during the mandate of the High Representative, on dialogue with local political forces, rather than on imposition and pressure. In his mandate, there will not be – what he calls – OHR's laws. If the October e [...]

The British Lord, Paddy Ashdown, who will officially hand over the post of High Representative for BiH to his German successor Christian Schwarz-Schilling at the end of this month, in his last interview for Vecernji list, mainly focused on the future of Bosnia and Herzegovina, which, according to him, will be spent in the company of European countr [...]

After his four-year mandate as the International Community’s High Representative for BiH, a majority of people in BiH believe he has not justified his position. He, on the other hand, believes he is going home following a job well done. Results that Ashdown is proud of do not mean much to many people in BiH, who, in most cases, view effects of his [...]

As Dnevni avaz has already written, the Peace Implementation Council (PIC) will announce today that Christian Schwarz-Schilling is the new High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina.

BANJA LUKA – High Representative, Paddy Ashdown, will allow today a majority of dismissed officials, except for the highest ranking persons such as ministers and their assistants and those who were discharged from their offices due to obstruction of cooperation with the Hague Tribunal, to return to public service.

The endorsement of the decision on the start of Stabilization and Association negotiations with Bosnia and Herzegovina, which is expected to happen today in Brussels, represents a historic day. This is a day for which many of us have been working long and hard. BiH should be proud that it has passed this road in such a short period of time. This is [...]

High Representative Paddy Ashdown confirmed exclusively for “Večernji” that BiH politicians gathered in Washington would be offered to sign a “statement” committing themselves to implementation of constitutional reforms. “Večernji” wrote about this several times, but there was no official confirmation of that.

I believe that the Dayton agreement was an extraordinary agreement. Today BiH is acknowledged as the most successful large-scale peace mission in the world. This is how Paddy Ashdown, the High Representative in BiH, evaluates the situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina ten years after the signing of the Dayton Peace Agreement.