OHR related Interviews

Bosnia and Herzegovina will have functional a state customs administration by the end of the year, announced the Principal Deputy High Representative Donald Hays in his interview for “Dnevni avaz”. Hays, who is acting chairman of the Commission which is to prepare all the necessary documentation which will serve as the legal basis for the introdu [...]

DAVID FROST: We turn now, after years on the fringes of power as leader of the Liberal Democrats, to Paddy Ashdown, who now has the authority most elected politicians can only ever dream of, ... the prime minister and all laws passed by parliament, but as the International Community's High Representative in Bosnia it's a job few would envy. He's be [...]

A non-rotating chair and two deputies who will also be ministers, as well as eight ministries, including the ministry of interior – this is the most concise summary of the results of the Council of Ministers reform talks. The future government of Bosnia and Herzegovina will have ministries for foreign affairs, economic relations and foreign t [...]

Some people say he wavers. Others say he wants to make Bosnia a protectorate. The High Representative for BiH, Paddy Ashdown, says he is neither of these two, but only a practical politician.

Paddy Ashdown, High Representative in BiH, enjoyed only a brief period of tranquility after taking office from his successor Wolfgang Petritsch. In the recent weeks, the media in BiH have launched a real offensive, accusing Ashdown of sympathizing with SDA, preventing Karadzic’s arrest, while the more serious ones begrudge that, after an elec [...]

I have seen comments in some media that a campaign to destroy the Republika Srpska is under way. This is wrong. I will say what I have already said before – not everyone must like Dayton but the reality of its existence must be respected. All I am trying to do within the domain of the Constitution is to create effective government. Theref [...]

The international community will not falsify the results of the elections because we do not control the election process, end even if we did, we would not do so. BiH will implement these elections in whole and we do not play any role therein. It is clear to me that BiH is a place where it is possible to hear various conspiracy theories. Yet, ev [...]

The High Representative for BiH, former leader of the British liberals and peace mediator, Paddy Ashdown, has been in Sarajevo since May, and, as it seems, he is trying to keep up the pace with the speed of reforms that should be implemented in Bosnia and Herzegovina in the forthcoming period. Ashdown spoke to Slobodna Dalmacija about that, but als [...]

The International Community has its favourites only in theory, not in practice. These are persons who believe in reforms, a free market, investments that contribute to the wellbeing of people in this country. This is our theoretic concept and we now observe candidates and monitor as to who fits best into the developed profile. However, we do not v [...]

BiH has the lowest inflation rate, that is, it has the most stable currency, we have freedom of movement and elections are taking place in peace. Much more has been achieved here in six years than in the Northern Ireland in 30 years…