Press Conferences

The High Representative,Paddy Ashdown,istoday on a one-day visit to Belgrade, where he will meet the President of the Republic of Serbia, Boris Tadic, the Prime Minister of the Republic of Serbia, Vojislav Kostunica, and the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Serbia and Montenegro, Vuk Draskovic.

Yesterday’s adoption by BiH’s Parliament of the Law on Tax on turnover of goods and services (Zakon o porezu na promet proizvoda i usluga u Bosni i Hercegovini) and the Law on Excise Tax in Bosnia and Hergovina (Zakon o akcizama u Bosni i Hercegovini) is an indication of how effectively BiH’s Parliament can work when it does so in the interests of [...]

I’ve brought along copies of the OHR’s monthly Economic Report. As you know, the Report offers a snapshot of the BiH economy by highlighting key indicators - money supply, trade figures, currency, employment figures and stock-market indices. As you will see, November continued a trend of substantial export growth that has been evident since the be [...]

Thanks for coming. This is the press conference I had hoped I wouldn’t have to call. Because we are here today, as we were after the Istanbul Summit in June, to take stock of the fact that, yet again, NATO has given this country a ‘NO’ to PFP membership because of its continued lack of co-operation with The Hague. I say I had hoped not to be he [...]

As we speak, Principal Deputy High Representative, Donald Hays is holding a press conference in Banja Luka with RS Prime Minister Dragan Mikerevic and RS Supreme Auditor Bosko Ceko to publicise the measures being taken in order to clean up corporate governance and ensure that public companies are run for the benefit of the public and not for the be [...]

The Senior Deputy High Representative, Werner Wnendt, visited this morning two returnee villages Dubiste in FBiH and Podkozara in RS which are divided by the IEBL where returns started in 2000. In this area, near Gorazde almost 300 pre-war inhabitants of Serb nationality returned and their needs are becoming the same as the needs of other residents [...]

The High Representative, Paddy Ashdown, is meeting Croatian Prime Minister Ivo Sanader today in Zagreb. This meeting forms part of the regular meetings, which the High Representative has with government leaders in the region. Discussions will cover the efforts being made by Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Republic of Croatia to move towards Euro-Atl [...]

The Political Directors of the Peace Implementation Council are meeting this evening and tomorrow morning at the OHR in Sarajevo. The Political Directors last met in September. Prime Minister Terzic will brief them on the progress that BiH has made since then in implementing reforms that are necessary for Euro-integration. Chief ICTY Prosecutor Car [...]

The Political Directors of the Peace Implementation Council will meet at the OHR in Sarajevo tomorrow afternoon and on Friday. They will review the progress that has been made in BiH's reform programme since the last PIC Political Directors' meeting in September. On Friday morning Chairman of the BiH Council of Ministers Adnan Terzic and other mini [...]

President Tihic and the High Representative will tomorrow at 15.00 in the Presidency Building sign an agreement setting up the Registry within the Court of BiH. The importance of trials held in the Court of BiH is clear. The Court of BiH and the BiH Prosecutors Office are responsible for BiH’s most serious crimes; including War Crimes and Organiz [...]