OHR related Interviews
01/21/2002
Interview: High Representative for BiH, Wolfgang Petritsch”Connections that authorities have with people from past ruin RS”
After returning from Brussels where he met NATO officials, the High Representative in BiH, Wolfgang Petritsch, gave an interview to "Nezavisne" and spoke about many issues such as the possibility of BiH joining the Partnership for Peace programme. He also repeated that BiH is going through a historic moment just before the implementation of the Con [...]
01/12/2002
Interview: Wolfgang Petritsch, the High Representative in BiH:”I am not opposed to introduction of House of Peoples in the RS”
I am not against the introduction of a House of Peoples in the Republika Srpska as well. But, the people of this country, politicians, should discuss this and agree on this… It is very important for me that the best possible solution is reached in the implementation of the Decision of the Constitutional court of BiH on the constituent status [...]
12/22/2001
Interview: Wolfgang Petritsch, the High Representative for BiH:”I am surprised that Lagumdzija and Ivanic have never discussed the Decision on constituency of peoples”
The Republic of Srpska is still too Serb and too little res publica, a community of all three constituent peoples · Karlo Filipovic has to solve problems with RS politicians and not only with me
12/20/2001
Sueddeutsche Zeitung Interview mit dem internationalen Beauftragten Wolfgang Petritsch”Bosnien ist kein Zentrum des Terrorismus“
Der Hohe Repräsentant der internationalen Gemeinschaft in Bosnien, Wolfgang Petritsch, warnt vor Vorurteilen gegen Muslime. In dem Balkanland sehe er kein Zentrum des islamistischen Terrorismus. Der Kärntner Slowene und Südosteuropa-Historiker Petritsch war Botschafter in Belgrad und EU-Unterhändler während der Kosovo-Krise, bevor er sich seit 1999 [...]
12/14/2001
Interview: Wolfgang Petritsch, the High Representative for BiH:”I had to make hard but necessary decisions”
I am absolutely certain that Ferhadija will be fully rebuilt – Ivanic could do much more if SDS had not received such large support of voters
12/13/2001
Intervju Visokog predstavnika, Wolfganga Petritscha za NTV Studio 99 Sarajevo, 11. decembra 2001. godine
NTV Studio 99: Danas Jevreji obilježavaju Hanuku, a za nekoliko dana je Bajram, poslije toga slijedi katolički Božić, a nakon toga i pravoslavni. Gospodine Petrič primječujete li blaženstvo, a ne samo mržnju kod ljudi u Bosni i Hercegovini.
12/06/2001
Interview: Wolfgang Petritsch, the High Representative in BiH:“Strengthened Position of the High Representative in BiH”
The position of the High Representative in BiH will be additionally strengthened - he will form a cabinet which will be made up of representatives of several of the largest international organizations, including, for example, officials such as Jacques Paul Klein. That and the fact that the Peace Implementation Council (PIC) adopted the proposal of [...]
11/27/2001
Interview: Wolfgang Petritsch, High Representative in BiH”It is clear that the future of BiH and the RS lies within Europe-RS must respect Dayton”
High Representative, Wolfgang Petritsch, said in an interview for "Euro Blic" that he informed the RS leadership of his own dissatisfaction, and that of the PIC, with the slow implementation of economic reforms and the unsatisfactory level of co-operation that the RS has shown with the BiH Joint Institutions. He said that he and the wider Internati [...]
11/26/2001
Interview: Matthias Sonn, Senior Deputy High Representative in BiH”It is sad that we have not established a good dialogue with Bishop Peric”
Matthias Sonn, Senior Deputy High Representative in BiH, has been performing this duty since October last year, and he is one of relevant interlocutors on OHR's work in BiH. Sonn is a diplomat and lawyer who has more than 15 years of experience at the German Foreign Office. He spent some of these 15 years working abroad: Port-of-Spain, Washington, [...]
11/21/2001
Interview: Wolfgang Petritsch, the High Representative in BiH:“Bosnia and Herzegovina on the brink of a major breakthrough”
The High Representative of the International Community in Sarajevo, Wolfgang Petritsch, is convinced that the sixth anniversary of signing of the Dayton Peace Agreement - which on November 21, 1995 promoted a new Balkan state comprising two entities and three equal national communities - finds Bosnia and Herzegovina on a turning-point which opens n [...]