Press Conferences

The Principal Deputy High Representative, Raffi Gregorian, will participate tomorrow at a donor coordination forum in Sarajevo organised by the UN Development Programme. Dr Gregorian will brief the principal international financial institutions in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the major donor agencies on the post-election political situation and the p [...]

Good morning everybody. Thank you for coming on such a beautiful day. I wish there was a more upbeat reason for asking you to come here today, but basically I wanted to take stock for the people of Bosnia and Herzegovina on the effects of the recent visits of the Commissioner for Enlargement, Olli Rehn and the NATO Secretary General, Jaap de Ho [...]

High Representative and EU Special Representative, Christian Schwarz-Schilling, will meet with Olli Rehn, the European Commission for Enlargement, in Sarajevo tomorrow to discuss BiH’s progress in meeting the criteria for signing a Stabilisation and Association Agreement with the European Union.

Many of you may have questions relating to the IC/OHR view of the meeting that took place in Srebrenica yesterday and the conclusions that there adopted by the participants. What I can tell you at this time is that the OHR has received the conclusions and that the HR will be discussing them with senior representatives of the international c [...]

OHR/EUSR will be attending the informal talks on police reform, which are being held today at the request of the BiH political parties at the residence of the German Ambassador in Sarajevo. OHR/EUSR welcomes the interest of leaders to continue talks and we stand ready to assist. However, the international community is also looking for results.

The Peace Implementation Council has just completed its meeting and the communiqué is available to you in English. A translation is also being prepared that will be sent out electronically to media and placed on the OHR web site as soon as possible. As I indicated earlier, our discussions, both this morning and yesterday evening, were constructi [...]

Good afternoon and thank you for being here. It is a pleasure to be addressing you today next to Council of Ministers Chair, Nikola Spiric for the first time at a Peace Implementation Coucil (PIC) meeting

A window of opportunity still exists for agreement on police reform. Although many other issues are on the all parties have an enormous incentive to reach agreement. Last December the Peace Implementation Council called for constructive talks among the political parties in order to facilitate the work of the Directorate and adoption of the [...]

The discussions on police restructuring based on the report of the Police Directorate continue today. 2 March is the deadline for State and Entity governments to sign up to a police reform, and that requires agreement to be reached this week. At the same time the EC have made it clear that there is a narrow window of opportunity if [...]