Press Conferences

As you know, I have been dedicated to this region for ten years now, working from high diplomatic functions. First, as the Slovakian ambassador to Belgrade, with responsibility for Montenegro, Macedonia and Albania, then as a special envoy for Javier Solana in Montenegro for implementation of the referendum, and now as High Representative and EU Sp [...]

We have just concluded our session of the Peace Implementation Council Steering Board.

I said at the beginning of my mandate that I would not take part in political games but rather that my role was to ensure adherence to the rules. On 11 September the Government of Republika Srpska adopted a conclusion for the RS institutions to withhold information from SIPA and the BiH Prosecutor’s Office.

Good afternoon. I have a rather lengthy statement that I will make now, but there is also a press statement and that will be issued as well as the text of the new Supervisory Order. I called this press conference today for two reasons. The first is to announce the issuance today of a Supervisory Order by which I align voluntary religious instructio [...]

We have just finished the two-day session of Political Directors of the Peace Implementation Council Steering Board. We had the opportunity to exchange opinions with the Council of Ministers of BiH, the members of the Collegia of both Chambers of the BiH Parliament and the Heads of Political Parties that make the ruling coalition at the State lev [...]

“The process of European integration is the necessary next step in Bosnia and Herzegovina’s post-war recovery. It is the political, economic and social instruments that can replace the executive powers of the International Community”, the High Representative and EU Special Representative Miroslav Lajčák told parliamentarians from across Europ [...]

High Representative and EU Special Representative Miroslav Lajčák will today attend the first meeting of the newly established Conference of BiH Education Ministers at 2 p.m at the Holiday Inn in Sarajevo.

The High Representative and EU Special Representative is in Brussels today to brief the Political and Security Committee – the PSC formulates European Security and Defence Policy – on the conclusions of the Peace Implementation Council meeting last week and on the political situation in BiH.

During the last two days Steering Board of the Peace Implementation Council had an opportunity to exchange views on the situation in BiH among ourselves, with the BiH Presidency, Chairman of the Council of Ministers, his two deputies and the leaders of the 6 political parties that make up the governing coalition.