OHR related Interviews

If things with the IMF do not finish as they should, everything could burst like a soap bubble, warns Ashdown. “I am here to ask them not to lose patience. BiH made commitments which she has to live up to.” High Representative Paddy Ashdown and Governor of the Central Bank of Bosnia and Herzegovina Peter Nicholl yesterday flew to Washi [...]

"In the RS, BiH as well as in the Balkans we have not created a single economic and civic space. However we have a single criminal space which works regardless of borders. This is a regional problem which has to be tackled at the regional level, because this is a threat to every country in the Balkans", said the High Representative for BiH, Paddy A [...]

: I am happy to be back in BiH. I am impressed by the changes for the better in Sarajevo and I think that every day you should remind yourselves of that. Sarajevo, however, is not BiH. The situation outside of this city, which nowadays has started to look like any other European city, is much more difficult, there are places where obstruction of th [...]

A huge burden during my three-years mandate was the fact that former leaders of Bosnian Serbs - Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic - were at large, preventing faster changes in BiH, said outgoing High Representative to BiH Wolfgang Petritsch in the last interview to reporters of domestic media, before leaving the duty on May 27.

Wolfgang Petritsch, who has been the High Representative in BiH so far, will hand over his office to Lord Paddy Ashdown by an official handover of duty in Sarajevo. In the last week of his mandate Petritsch was talking to Slobodna Dalmacija about things that he made for BiH.

Wolfgang Petritsch, the High Representative of the International Community in BiH, on the occasion of his leaving of this position in which he will be succeeded by well-known British politician Lord Paddy Ashdown is giving a review of his mandate: Billions of Kunas sent from Zagreb disappeared in Hercegovacka Banka

I would assess the past three years as a great success that should be credited not to myself but primarily to my partners from the International Community as well as the Alliance. The indicted war criminals at large, the third GSM operator and non-implemented economic reforms are the three biggest failures which the outgoing High Representative for [...]

Wolfgang Petritsch is leaving the position of the High Representative of International Community in BiH at the end of May. In a farewell interview given to Vecernji List he talks about Croat political pluralism in BiH, the coming elections, his successor Paddy Ashdown and the people he politically retired by his decisions.

Reform of the BiH judicial system is one of the main tasks of Matthias Sonn, German ambassador carrying out the duty of the Senior Deputy High Representative. Upon the decision by the Steering Board of the Peace Implementation Council dated February 28, he has been chairing the newly formed Task Force for the Rule of Law. That team is co-ordinating [...]

This is not the end of changes to the unusual setup of BiH - By refraining from voting, the SDA showed it was wrong – You have so many levels of government that it is questionable whether you can afford it. The Sarajevo Agreement on implementation of the Constitutional Court’s decision on the constituent status of peoples on the whole [...]