Press Conferences

thank you very much for coming today and I am very sorry about the delay; this is an important event because today we will present to you the Youth Policy Platform. It is this document that we will be presenting to you today.

The High Representative, Christian Schwarz-Schilling, is meeting today with the Council of Ministers and it's Chair, Adnan Terzic. The High Representative will reiterate the fact that the SAA process is the most important issue now facing BiH. The objective that the International Community and the citizens of BiH fervently want to reach - BiH as [...]

The High Representative, Christian Schwarz-Schilling, will hold talks in Sarajevo this morning with country directors of the international financial institutions, focusing on how best to coordinate the activities of the IFIs in BiH.

Good afternoon ladies and gentleman. I had the pleasure today to meet with Carla del Ponte. I do not have to introduce her to you because she is very well known, not only here but also in the International Community and the countries around here.

As you know, the High Representative and EUSR, Christian Schwarz-Schilling, has just completed his first meeting with the BiH Presidency. The High Representative encouraged the members of the Presidency to speak and function in a more coherent way.

The High Representative, Christian Schwarz-Schilling, will tomorrow meet with FBiH Prime Minister Ahmed Hadzipasic. The media will have the opportunity to cover this event and we'll be issuing the full details later in the day.

The High Representative, Christian Schwarz-Schilling, will hold a meeting, today, on with the speakers and deputy speakers of the BiH House of Representatives and the BiH House of Peoples. This will be Dr. Schwarz-Schilling's first formal meeting with BiH officials since taking up his mandate.

Thank you for coming along to what looks like my last of many press conferences with you. Though of course, I shall be appearing and giving a speech to the Parliament of BiH at nine o'clock on Monday morning, bringing to a full circle my mandate, which as you recall on its first day started with a speech to Parliament and will end on the last full [...]

Let me remind you that the High Representative will today attend the first meeting of the BiH Directorate for Police Restructuring. The Directorate is a technical body made up of BiH police experts, who, under the terms of the political agreement adopted by Entity and State Parliaments, are due to produce an implementation plan by September this ye [...]

As you know, BiH negotiators will today begin talks in Sarajevo with representatives of the European Commission on a Stabilisation and Association Agreement. If BiH concludes an agreement - and this could be done as early as the end of this year - it would represent a quantum leap forward in this country's path to full integration with the rest of [...]