Press Conferences

BiH Parliamentarians are preparing once again to attempt to increase the benefits and privileges that they are entitled to through the Law on Rights and Duties of the Members of the Parliamentary Assembly of BiH (Zakon o pravima i duznostima clanova Parlamentarne skupstine BiH). This legislation is to be considered by the Constitutional and Legal C [...]

BiH Parliamentarians are preparing once again to attempt to increase the benefits and privileges that they are entitled to through the Law on Rights and Duties of the Members of the Parliamentary Assembly of BiH (Zakon o pravima i duznostima clanova Parlamentarne skupstine BiH). This legislation is to be considered by the Constitutional and Legal C [...]

This press conference is about the Constitutional Court – and I bet you think that’s boring. I want to try to explain to you why it is not. Imagine that the International Community is the scaffolding within which we have built the state. Within that scaffolding we have built a house, the house is called Bosnia and Herzegovina. And in that house liv [...]

The OHR is once again in the position where it has to remind the highest levels of the RS authorities about the nature of the RS’s status as an Entity, under the Dayton Peace Agreement. The Dayton Peace Agreement provides certain guarantees to the RS, provided the RS recognises the sovereignty of the State of Bosnia and Herzegovina - not the other [...]

As you know, in Brussels last week the Steering Board of the Peace Implementation Council called on the State and Entity authorities to address the unsustainable cost of governance - now consuming more than half of the national economic production. The sprawling administrative structure means that citizens are paying too much money for too little s [...]

The High Representative Paddy Ashdown will today visit Doboj where he’ll meet police officers and their families. The High Representative will hear their views on police reform, in light of the publication of the recommendations of Chairman of the Police Reform Commission's report last week.

The High Representative Paddy Ashdown will today visit Doboj where he’ll meet police officers and their families. The High Representative will hear their views on police reform, in light of the publication of the recommendations of Chairman of the Police Reform Commission's report last week.

The meeting of the Steering Board of the Peace Implementation Council started at 09.00 this morning in Brussels. Representatives of BiH’s authorities; Prime Minister Adnan Terzic, RS President Dragan Cavic, and RS Minister of Interior Darko Matijasevic, are about to start their briefing to the PIC as we speak. The meeting will also be briefed by IC [...]

The Steering Board of the Peace Implementation Council will meet in Brussels tomorrow under the chairmanship of the High Representative, Paddy Ashdown. The meeting will be briefed by ICTY Chief Prosecutor Carla del Ponte and also by a BiH government delegation led by Prime Minister Adnan Terzic.

The mayors of Zepce and Gornji Vakuf-Uskoplje municipalities were informed yesterday of the High Representative’s Decision bringing an end the International Community supervisory regimes in their municipalities. The High Representative noted that OHR has endeavoured over the past several years to facilitate the integration and smooth functioning [...]