Press Conferences

As you know, the Entity prime ministers announced last year that they would secure the enactment of key reforms after the Special Auditor found that BiH public companies were losing tens of millions of KM every year in potential revenue because of mismanagement and fraud. Dealing with this issue effectively is an essential test of the entity author [...]

The Senior Deputy High Representative, Werner Wnendt, is travelling today to Pozarnica Village, some 10 km east of Tuzla on the road to Bijeljina, where he will meet returnees to the area. Ambassador Wnendt will meet returnee organizations, the mayors of Tuzla and Bijeljina and representatives of the BiH Ministry for Refugees and Human Rights.

Before I go on to other matters, I would just like to make the following points: a senior BiH official is quoted today as saying there will be no consequences if BiH does not get in to PfP at the end of this month. He could not be more wrong. PfP membership and integration into NATO provides the best guarantee of long-term peace and stability for B [...]

As you will recall, it is two years today since Paddy Ashdown took on the mandate of the High Representative. In his first speech to a plenary session of BiH Parliament the High Representative underlined that his aim was to put BiH irreversibly the on path to statehood and on the road to Europe. He said that the focus of his work would be on ‘Justi [...]

The Principal Deputy High Representative, Donald Hays, this morning visited the successful meat Production Company, MIS Stanic, in Kresevo. This company was one of 16 certified by Croatian Veterinary Office to export its products to Croatia [by whom?] but the recent outbreaks of Q-fever and Brucellosis has dashed their hopes of breaking into fore [...]

OHR would just like to respond to recent comments in the media that cooperation with ICTY will be empty talk until SFOR establishes joint operations with BiH authorities. In the OHR's view, this sounds like just another excuse for not doing anything. BiH is under an international obligation to arrest PIFWCS, and the RS in particular is failing [...]

The Office of the High Representative welcomes yesterday’s adoption of the Proposed Law on Single HJPC by Constitutional Commission of the BiH House of People. The BiH House of Peoples itself is to consider the single HJPC Law tomorrow, 21 May...

I would like to remind you that OHR has launched TV documentary titled "How much further - Three years later", with the aim to recall characters from the original TV series. Closing in on its participation in process of return, following BiH institutions taking over this matter, OHR wanted to point out the problems displaced persons and returnees [...]

High Representative and Deputy Foreign Minister Lidija Topic today completed a successful presentation in Berlin where they spoke to representatives of the German travel industry. Berlin is the third leg of the tour; the High Representative and the Foreign Minister held similar presentations in The Hague on Saturday and in Stockholm yesterday...

On the eve of the reopening of Mostar's old bridge, which perhaps best symbolises how far Bosnia has changed from the destruction of the war and will become one of this country's leading tourist attractions, the High Representative and Foreign Minister Mladen Ivanic will tomorrow make a presentation to journalists and travel operators in The Hague [...]