OHR related Interviews

Bosnia peace overseer blasts Serbs on warcrimes 26 June, 2001 By Nedim Dervisbegovic Bosnia's top peace overseer warned Bosnian Serb leaders on Tuesday to swiftly improve their "scandalous" level of cooperation with the U.N. war crimes tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. Referring to the authorities' failure to arrest suspects sought by The Hague t [...]

"We have returned the documents from the Hercegovacka Bank vault to the HDZ because six of my people were threatened to be killed in Grude" 7 June, 2001 Hostages: Something was really wrong in the Bank because bankers do not take hostages to protect documents from a legal audit. Evidence: We have substantial evidence that Hercegovacka Bank abused f [...]

Wolfgang Petritsch: 'A hero of our time' or 'a merciless protector' A preliminary investigation of misconduct at the Bank has shown that the situation is worse than we expected! 21 May, 2001 In a wide-ranging interview with our newspaper the High Representative of the IC in BiH responds to questions about recent events in the RS, and Croat self-rul [...]

ETHNIC STATES ARE A THING OF THE PAST 9 May, 2001 The International Community hasn't allowed the establishment of Republika Srpska Krajina and would not allow Jelavic to establish Herceg-Bosna within BiH By: Igor Gajic The last visit of the High Representative to BiH Wolfgang Petritsch to Banja Luka was mainly devoted to discussing economic program [...]

May 3, 2001 Jelavic's days on the political scene are numbered The HDZ BiH has constantly been losing support - over the last five years it lost half of its constituency. The accusations of use of force in the Hercegovacka bank come from the very same people who organised the gathering of the crowd, from the persons who threw stones, who beat and i [...]

54 million German Mark of Croat(ian) aid disappeared to "nowhere" April 22, 2001 By Visnja Starjesina On his way back from Brussels, where he discussed with NATO and EU representatives the current BiH conflict between the HDZ and the International Community and the possibilities of finding a solution, the High Representative Wolfgang Petritsch stop [...]

13 April 2001 After Milosevic was arrested, Herzegovina is the only refuge of criminal elements left in the region By Snjezana Pavic The evidence clearly indicate to the existence of a direct link between the crowd that gathered in Mostar and the HDZ leaders who were in the vicinity at that time.

11 April 2001 Attempt by HDZ is doomed to failure The High Representative to BiH, Wolfgang Petritsch, thinks that the new members of the BiH Presidency will enjoy trust and support of the people they represent despite the fact that they were not directly elected by voters.

There will be no new Dayton Dnevni Avaz, Monday, 2 April 2001 In the early 90s, Europe let down BiH - The US supports the EU's proposal that I review the current international structures for the civilian implementation of the Peace Agreement for Bosnia and Herzegovina By Sead Numanovic The High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina Wolfgang Pet [...]

It is too late for Jelavic Slobodna Dalmacija, 19 March 2001 He had his chance many times. Many times I was criticised by the International Community, and also by some Croats, because I was late with the decisions which have been passed now. I am sorry, but the time of Jelavic, as a politician, is definitely over.