Дневни медијски извјештаји

Nezavisne Novine (p 5) reports that the High Representative, Paddy Ashdown, testified yesterday before the Hague Tribunal in the trial to Radoslav Brdjanin, who is indicted for genocide, crimes against humanity, severe breaches of Geneva convention and violations of customs of war. Ashdown testified on his visit to BiH and detention camps in Manjac [...]

All Serb deputies from the RS walked out of the inaugural session of the BiH Parliamentary Assembly’s House of Representatives as a sign of protest over High Representative Paddy Ashdown’s imposition of the law on Council of Ministers by which he ignored regular parliamentary procedures. Before the Serb deputies walked out of the assemb [...]

High Representative Paddy Ashdown on Monday imposed the new Law on the BiH Council of Ministers in order to establish a government that will implement reforms in BiH and be a partner to the international community. "We have taken important yet measured steps to establish efficient government by protecting all people... and I hope that this will be [...]

The High Representative, Paddy Ashdown, will in the course of this week impose the Law on the BiH Council of Ministers. According to Chief OHR Spokesman Julian Braithwaite, Ashdown decide to do so in order to help the process of reforms including the establishment and the beginning of the functioning of the BiH Council of Ministers on the basis of [...]

Avaz pg. 4 ‘Kalinic President, Sefket Hafizovic one of the vice-president’, Oslobodjenje pg. 8 ‘Dragan Kalinic President’, Glas Srpski pg. 3 ‘Kalinic is Speaker again’, Nezavisne Novine pg. 1 & 3 SDS, PDP and SDA support Kalinic’, all RS electronic media, Vecernje Novosti pg.4 ‘Kalinic is speaker aga [...]

Avaz pg. 4 ‘Rotation to be abolished, and a number of ministries increasing’, Oslobodjenje pg. 6 ‘The rotation principle abolished’, Nezavisne Novine pg. 7 ‘BiH gets nine ministries’, Glas Srpski pg. 3 and SRNA – on continuing talks at OHR in Sarajevo yesterday about the CoM reconstruction. Sefik Dzaferovic [...]

Oslobodjenje pg. 4 ‘More efficient fight against trafficking’ – a statement by UNMIBH Spokesperson, Kirsten Haupt, in a response to the Human Rights Watch report on the involvement of the local and international policemen in organised crime in BiH. Haupt recalled that UNMIBH opened an investigation against 18 IPTF officers who wer [...]

Extensive coverage in both Sarajevo dailies (Avaz pg. 1 & 2, Oslobodjenje pg. 3 ‘The rule of law in BiH is a priority). “Europe will not permit the development and expansion of organised crime in the Balkans. The battle against this evil is not only important for the future of this region, but also for the stability and prosperity of t [...]

Weekend edition of Glas srpski (p.3 ‘Working groups for changes) reported on a meeting that PDHR Donald Hays had with representatives of the new BiH authorities on Friday. PDHR Hays called for new BiH authorities to make sure that real changes start taking place. He further informed the representatives of BiH authorities about three working g [...]

On Thursday in Brussels the Peace Implementation Council's Steering Board Political Directors meet with BiH President Mirko Sarovic and RS Prime Minister Mladen Ivanic regarding the ORAO affair. The High Representative, Paddy Ashdown, following the discussion said that the Steering Board considered "the interim report submitted by the Republika Srp [...]