Дневни медијски извјештаји

The education reform in BiH will be in the focus of the Thursday’s session of the Peace Implementation Council’s Steering Board at the level of political directors in Brussels. The Chief OHR Spokesman Julian Braithwaite told journalists in Sarajevo on Wednesday that, in the course of his stay in Brussels, the High Representative, Paddy [...]

In a joint statement issued following their meeting on Tuesday in the OHR Sarajevo, the High Representative, Paddy Ashdown, and the Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) Carla Del Ponte emphasized that they “have agreed that the issue of building the capacity of the BiH authorities to prosecu [...]

On the second day of his official visit to BiH the UN Secretary General Kofi Annan met with the members of the BiH Presidency, BiH Council of Ministers and Prime Ministers of the Entities. At the start of the talks, members of the BiH Presidency thanked UN Secretary General Annan and his special envoy to BiH Jacques Paul Klein for the successful c [...]

UN Secretary General Kofi Annan arrived in BiH on Sunday on a two-day official visit. At Sarajevo airport, he was greeted by the chairman of the BiH Presidency, Mirko Sarovic, the chairman of the BiH Council of Ministers, Dragan Mikerevic and the Head of the UN Mission to BiH, Jacques Paul Klein. In the course of the day, Annan unveiled a plaque in [...]

SFOR Commander General William Ward has banned the flights of helicopters of the BiH Federation Army until further notice, SFOR Spokesman Yves Vanier said on Thursday. The decision was made after helicopter of the Federation Army flew below allowed height and made photos of the SFOR’s facilities in Sarajevo. According to Vanier, persons from [...]

At a joint press conference in Sarajevo on Wednesday, the High Representative, Paddy Ashdown and the SFOR Commander, William Ward, presented a letter wrote a day earlier by the Secretary General of NATO, George Robertson, to the Presidency. This letter sets out clearly NATO’s rules for joining Partnership for Peace and what progress is required be [...]

The BiH Federation's financial police have filed a criminal complaint against several officials in the Defence Ministry, who have allegedly embezzled the funds obtained through the sale of armoured personnel carriers to Israeli companies. The finance police officials have recently commented on the role of Defence Minister Mijo Anic in the matter an [...]

Principal Deputy High Representative Donald Hays and director of CAFAO (EU-sponsored Customs and Fiscal Assistance Office) Alan Jensen have given their full support to the Federation Customs Administration in the investigation of customs fraud. They have said that they would not tolerate political interfering in the investigation. According to offi [...]

Information that BiH annually loses between 300 and 400 million KM in unpaid customs duties, and that a relatively small BiH territory is split on several customs administration, which is being misused by criminals, has made the international officials in BiH and the local authorities start the process of the customs system reform. “In the Office o [...]

The agreement on a single oil derivatives market was signed in Sarajevo on Thursday. The agreement stipulates that the two entities have to return to the previous petrol price by 15 November, while the Brcko District has to introduce a road tax by the New Year. In order to comply with the existing stand-by arrangements with the International Moneta [...]