07.11.2002

OHR BiH Media Round-up, 7/11/2002

The Senior Deputy High Representative (SDHR), Gerhard Enver Schrömbgens, met this afternoon in Sarajevo with leaders and representatives of the parties represented in the BiH House of Representatives following October’s election, to discuss reforms which will make the BiH Council of Ministers more effective. “A consensus was reached to [...]
06.11.2002

OHR BiH Media Round-up, 6/11/2002

The High Representative, Paddy Ashdown, on Tuesday visited the Sarajevo-based Development Studio Company in order to promote the “Business on my Street” campaign. It is about a project promoting small-scale business, entrepreneurs and young and prosperous businessmen having their companies throughout BiH. “The biggest resource thi [...]
06.11.2002

OHR Morning Media Brief: November 6, 2002

The High Representative, Paddy Ashdown, on Tuesday visited the Sarajevo-based Development Studio Company in order to promote the “Business on my Street” campaign. It is about a project promoting small-scale business, entrepreneurs and young and prosperous businessmen having their companies throughout BiH. “The biggest resource thi [...]
05.11.2002

OHR BiH Media Round-up, 5/11/2002

In the course of his visit to Banja Luka on Monday, the High Representative, Paddy Ashdown, reiterated three BiH priorities also mentioned in a letter sent to the country leadership by the EU Commissioner for Foreign Affairs, Chris Patten, that included the reform of the BiH Council of Ministers and the customs system, as well as the introduction o [...]
04.11.2002

OHR BiH Media Round-up, 4/11/2002

Two officers from the High Representative Paddy Ashdown’s office in the middle of the election campaign attempted to force (persuade) Munir Munja Alibabic (the removed FOSS Director) to join a campaign of discrediting the SDP BiH leader, Zlatko Lagumdzija, said an Oslobodjenje front-page story written by Azhar Kalamujic (story continued on p [...]
01.11.2002

OHR BiH Media Round-up, 1/11/2002

The High Representative, Paddy Ashdown, addressed journalists in Sarajevo on Thursday upon his return from Brussels where he had discussed the political and security situation in BiH with the top EU and NATO officials. Ashdown emphasized that both EU and NATO were fully supporting the initiated reforms and particularly the reforms of the Council of [...]
31.10.2002

OHR BiH Media Round-up, 31/10/2002

The High Representative, Paddy Ashdown, and the former SFOR Commander, John Sylvester, informed in Brussels on Wednesday the EU Political and Security Committee and the Nort Atlantic Council on the current situation in BiH with particular regard to the Orao affair. “There must be a full public enquiry, with the necessary input from the state, [...]
30.10.2002

OHR BiH Media Round-up, 30/10/2002

A ban on arms imports and exports will be in force in BiH until a control mechanism at the level of the state of BiH in this sphere is established, BiH Minister of Foreign Trade Azra Hadziahmetovic announced on Tuesday after a meeting with Principal Deputy High Representative Donald Hays and OSCE Mission Head Robert Beecroft. Hadziahmetovic told a [...]
29.10.2002

OHR BiH Media Round-up, 29/10/2002

The Republika Srpska Supreme Defence Council late on Monday accepted the resignation of Minister of Defence Slobodan Bilic and relieved of duty the chief of the RS Army General Staff, General Novica Simic, because of illegal arms exports, SRNA has learnt from the Supreme Defence Council. At a two-hour session in Banja Luka, the Council considered t [...]
28.10.2002

OHR BiH Media Round-up, 28/10/2002

The High Representative, Paddy Ashdown, on Sunday outlined the steps that the RS and BiH authorities must take following revelations that the Bijeljina based “ORAO” aviation company was trading arms with Iraq, breaching both the Dayton Peace Agreement and UN Security Council Resolutions. At the Press Conference in Sarajevo, the High Rep [...]